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I used to work with the Lesson.ly team. New and existing employee training is a big problem space with lots of room for innovation. Many employers want to do a better job of traini…

1. Do not take this statement for granted: "When your page is simple, yes, you don't need that much interactivity. But the market will demand more and more functionality on that pa…

Couldn't agree more. The bonus reason sums it up best: "It's the right thing to do". This kind of stuff pays off in the long-rug I bet. A few times I have replied to emails from st…

I think the implications are still unclear. It's hard to tell if they're specifically targeting apps that are "badge-arrific" and use Facebook to market themselves, if they're refe…

Your thoughts parallel mine. At the very least, if this idea is so brilliant, why can't a company like Dell or Apple begin mass-producing these little tikes? Even with patents and …

My ignorance will show here, but I would imagine engineering one of those devices is nothing trivial (duh), let alone something that a small company could afford. I wasn't even awa…

Can't wait to see Web 2.0 be the next regulated industry. Imagine the government trying to pull off a definition of that!

Bruno, we've got to talk. I go to IU and you seem like a particularly interesting individual. I'll shoot you an email soon.

Maybe if we were both more clear about the point we were trying to make, we would agree :) Fact of the matter is that age isn't a sole determining factor of one's entrepreneurial m…

Hard to see how it could be a good thing. The added desire te succeed, if any, will likely be short term.

Imagine the possibilities if we gathered all the troops (rejected troops that is) and brainstormed one sweet startup. Not realistic but how cool would that be?

Correction: you haven't beaten the 18/19/20/whatever year-old shits...yet. Give us a few years to be 24 :) Age does matter. People of different age have different priorities, botto…

I feel as if rejection here shouldn't really be a motivating factor! There should be so many reasons above proving YC wrong to be a motivated entrepreneur. But whatever gets you go…

Same here. We have a team of 20-year olds an one 52 year-old. The grandpa of us bunch didn't see the same excitement in this opportunity as the young'uns did. Rejection here as wel…

You didn't get my April Fool's joke either? c'mon...

This is crazy haha! I'm not sure I see the sustainability in this but it is fun to see innovation like this out there. It's probably one of those things where new or better technol…

I don't know if I'd want to pitch my idea to Google at such an early stage. They have enough resources to duplicate a lot of entrepreneurs' efforts. Seems like it is still best to …

Why does this guy get negative points? It's legitimate...

You are reading way too much into this blog post. I think much of the post's content can be treated somewhat humorously, e.g. he is using the Love, Hate, Love Again title as more o…

One point: Jake is clearly trying to portray himself as the self-made, hard-working, humble American. In my opinion, he would've been better off not publishing this article in the …

1) Standard practice. Good for accounting purposes. 2) Unnecessarily complicated for end-user. Also messes with accounting because you don't want to record revenue earned for the s…