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This is OK but I'd be more interested in seeing where these companies started out -- in a dorm room, around a kitchen table... any place else?

An interesting story for people considering taking on business partners, co-founders, etc.

Excellent point. On a related note how does one legally manage vesting in the case of a merger between two startups? I'm considering a merger with another founder. My startup has b…

"and can stand up to a million users isn't worth anything until somebody finds it useful." Often times it takes a team and not an individual to build something somebody wants. The …

Extrapolating these little nuggets of wisdom to every situation is meaningless. For instance it simply does not apply to a startup that is looking to build something complex. And i…

So FB makes: 15.8x10^9(pageviews/month)x0.01x0.04/100 + 0.25x15.8x10^6 = $4x10^6 per month on ads? So their annual revenue is just under $50x10^6 or $50 million. Note: this assumes…

"If I were LinkedIn, I'd sell. Facebook is going to crush them." Where's the intersection? I like linkedin. I've had a few recruiters and business folks contact me through there. I…

Welcome to the world of helicopter parents. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Helicopter_parents http://www.usatoday.com/money/economy/employment/2007-04-23-...

Good comment. A recent article from businessweek talked about the 10 top employers favoured by new grads. Three of them were fed. agencies, one established accounting firm, google,…

Congrats YC and Zenters!

"You don't just do things - You work together." this is correct.

How long have you been married? Is your wife employed and does she have a stable career? Do you have kids? Do you have a modest lifestyle that can sustain long periods of no income…

There was a discussion on this earlier. We are working on a wireless hw/sw/fw startup. Of late I've had at least one Web2.0 person express an interest in working for us. I expect w…

Aruba, Starent, Infinera are hot 2007 IPO's of note that were recently in the news. None of them were started by 20-somethings. I think this site and the referenced bloggers have a…

A large fraction, e.g. 1/5 can still be a minority.

You missed his point. What he is saying is that age should not be a matter of significance.

Yes there are a few inaccurate generalizations here. Another gem is: "Only a disproportionately minute number of discoveries traditionally came from directed academic research. " H…

Please include some people from the infrastructure world. Founders of companies like Cisco, Juniper, Qualcomm, etc. Even smaller chip companies. How did these people get started? H…

This writer uses Tivo as an example of something that could not have been founded by older people. Well actually Tivo was founded by Silicon valley veterans Barton and Ramsay. Not …