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How much did your school pay your for your efforts there?
My grad school pays $25 per hour. I paid nothing for undergrad. This isn't atypical.
I propose "venture catapult" as a generic term for what YC does.
-- Startapult?
-- Startup-apult?
-- Startup-buchet?
-- Startupifier?
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My grad school pays $25 per hour. I paid nothing for undergrad. This isn't atypical.
Not atypical but also not the majority. I don't think it's a stretch to say most people pay for grad school.
It's amazing how few people know that if your PhD doesn't cost -$12,000 a year or less you really are not doing something right.
pg: But all it would have taken in the beginning would have been for two Google employees to focus on the wrong things for six months, and the company could have died. Actually, it's even more interesting than that. Prior to AdWords (and, more importantly, the acquisition of Applied Semantics that gave them AdSense), Google did not have a real source of revenue. At all. Google Appliances were cute but negligible. Aft…
What was the idea of an intern? Ads were part of the plan from very early on. Also, AdSense predates the Applied Semantics aquisition.
I propose "venture catapult" as a generic term for what YC does.
Y Combinator acts as a startup hearth — just a little bit of support from money, but included is an environment which promotes growth.
I propose "venture catapult" as a generic term for what YC does.
I propose "venture catapult" as a generic term for what YC does.
pg: But all it would have taken in the beginning would have been for two Google employees to focus on the wrong things for six months, and the company could have died. Actually, it's even more interesting than that. Prior to AdWords (and, more importantly, the acquisition of Applied Semantics that gave them AdSense), Google did not have a real source of revenue. At all. Google Appliances were cute but negligible. Aft…
What was the idea of an intern? Ads were part of the plan from very early on. Also, AdSense predates the Applied Semantics aquisition.
That's not what your press release says: http://www.google.com/press/pressrel/applied.html
What was the idea of an intern? The self-service approach to buying AdWords, IIRC. The mail-order lobster nonsense that led to the streamlining of the horribly broken logfile/MySQL system when it became popular. I may be confused -- 'intern' may be the wrong word.
But if you want an example of a 'tipping point' or a critical decision I can't think of much better than Google and their ad sales mechanism.