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Thanks for the clarification pg. I would think that it'd be pretty uncommon to be accepted at the pre-idea stage though, no? I mean, seed funding for literally nothing more than a …

Not taking it personally, no worries. Just want to make sure the FI doesn't get disrespected. Realize I might not be in the right place for that though :) I certainly don't underst…

My first question would be why you consider YC to be your best choice. No offense intended to the host of this forum, but there's a lot of reasons that might not be true. Clearly Y…

I hear you. I'm also glad to hear they're tweaking the formula. I think we can agree it's not only fair but important to set the incorporation requirement a little earlier in the s…

With regards to incorporation, I would only say the word "pressure" (at least in NY) might be too strong. They put it out there and make it clear - incorporate or clear out of the …

btw, my take on FI: http://www.nodroidsallowed.com/2010/03/02/tips-for-those-app...

I'm in the NY program, which is finishing up next week. I know a couple of others in the NY program lurk here as well. Feel free to hit me up if you have questions about Founder In…

Huh. Serves me right for being overly anxious. Thanks and good luck to you too bhousel.

First, congrats. Second, a question.... I was working on the Admissions Test for the Founder Institute (http://www.founderinstitute.com/) on Monday night and experienced some consi…

Great suggestion! Thanks for the heads up on this.

That's good to hear. Linux doesn't scare me at all. It's Linux on a laptop that scares me. I'm a command line kind of guy, but not a hardware kind of guy. I just want to spend time…

I'm sure this has been asked a million times but I can only scroll back so far : ) I have a 2 or 3 year old IBM Thinkpad with Windows on it that I don't really use because I have b…

To date I've had nothing but good things to say about XMLTeam (http://xmlteam.com/), an alternative to high priced/low value professional sports stat providers like Stats Inc. I'm …

I agree. I was thinking of spam in a generic sense. He had to have generated a bunch of these and bulk mailed them or else he would have taken the time to customize them.

(Edited title after posting) LinkedIn URL: http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephcordi

Just got an email from Joseph A. Cordi (LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/josephcordi) which I first took to be generic spam but now wondering if he (or his firm) scraped the po…

Doesn't exactly fit your criteria in terms generating revenue, but I wrote a plugin for TiddlyWiki ( http://www.tiddlywiki.com/ ) that allows you to store your address book inside …

>> it would encourage people to create accounts on my system for the sole purpose of gaining these badges. I doubt anyone would make a (non-spam) system that rewards people just fo…

It's an interesting idea but there are a couple of things you should think through before taking it too much further. I don't think depending on partnerships is necessarily horribl…

I've been using rsync.net ( http://rsync.net/ ) for years. With your requirement to be able to encrypt, you can use a number of means since they are very flexible. One I've used is…

Agreed for the most part. It drives me crazy when people make absurd comments like "PHP doesn't scale". Besides the fact that there are plenty of examples of PHP sites that have sc…

Yes, I think that's fair and appropriate. PHP isn't necessarily sexy to many developers for a number of reasons (not a small part of it is the echo chamber effect), but it can be r…

Ooo, this is total flame war bait.....You're making a lot of assumptions about what a "modern" language is here, but I wont' dwell on that : ) Suffice it to say you should give PHP…

Founder of http://www.whizkidsports.com . Still a work in progress, hopefully ready by beginning of next baseball season.