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Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by axod »

lachyg wrote: post #8
shashank261 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't Mark Bao miss riding dirt bikes, chasing gals, playing baseball.

Who says he doesn't do all of that? And also, where riding dirt bikes and playing basketball is your idea of fun, his may be programming, running startups and doing bizdev.

I'd say that you can start companies at any stage of life. You can start a company age 50, and probably have far more chance at success based on your extra knowledge.

However, you can't really go to night clubs, chase girls, play dirt bikes etc age 50.

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by shashank261 »

lachyg wrote: post #8
shashank261 wrote: post #6

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Doesn't Mark Bao miss riding dirt bikes, chasing gals, playing baseball.

Who says he doesn't do all of that? And also, where riding dirt bikes and playing basketball is your idea of fun, his may be programming, running startups and doing bizdev.

Agreed, May be he is different

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by sjtgraham »

plbth wrote: post #4

Seems like a pretty awful track record.

Sitting on your ass and playing games consoles would be a particularly bad track record from someone of Bao's age, yet many of his peers do it. He is one motivated kid, so don't knock him for it.

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by acqq »

axod wrote: post #11
lachyg wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who says he doesn't do all of that? And also, where riding dirt bikes and playing basketball is your idea of fun, his may be programming, running startups and doing bizdev.

I'd say that you can start companies at any stage of life. You can start a company age 50, and probably have far more chance at success based on your extra knowledge. However, you can't really go to night clubs, chase girls, play dirt bikes etc age 50.

> you can't really go to night clubs, chase girls, play dirt bikes etc age 50.

I guess you're not older than, let's say, 25?

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by ido »

axod wrote: post #11
lachyg wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who says he doesn't do all of that? And also, where riding dirt bikes and playing basketball is your idea of fun, his may be programming, running startups and doing bizdev.

I'd say that you can start companies at any stage of life. You can start a company age 50, and probably have far more chance at success based on your extra knowledge. However, you can't really go to night clubs, chase girls, play dirt bikes etc age 50.

    However, you can't really go to night 
    clubs, chase girls, play dirt bikes etc 
    age 50.
I'll give you the benefit of the doubt about the dirt bikes, but I know several people in their 40s who do those other things.

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by lachyg »

axod wrote: post #11
lachyg wrote: post #8

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Who says he doesn't do all of that? And also, where riding dirt bikes and playing basketball is your idea of fun, his may be programming, running startups and doing bizdev.

I'd say that you can start companies at any stage of life. You can start a company age 50, and probably have far more chance at success based on your extra knowledge. However, you can't really go to night clubs, chase girls, play dirt bikes etc age 50.

I'm fairly sure you would 50 year olds that could do all of those.

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by markbao »

Oh cool, I'm on here :D

18 now, and I've stopped calling them startups... a lot of them are just webapps :) (also no longer in high school, was going to update it two days ago until threewords.me came along, now at 1.8 million pageviews...) the new startup is http://supportbreeze.com !

Would like to note that my bhag (big hairy audacious goal) is to donate almost all my money into positive philanthropy (see below) and startup investments http://iam.markbao.com

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by markbao »

ximeng wrote: post #18

Interested to know the detailed plans for the life goals ( http://markbao.com/lifegoals ), particularly this one: $5+ billion net worth

Actually now $10 billion (not that it matters :p), but the big plan is to put 90% of that into medical/cancer research grants, life extension, political action, humanitarian action, space exploration, and other positive action, and 5% into startup investments

more here: http://iam.markbao.com/

edit: oh! detailed plan is to eventually put complete focus towards the main project, Avecora... what we're basically trying to do is build a new, integrated, but open communication platform for data (between applications, appliances, and users.)

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by markbao »

enra wrote: post #9

I really woudn't like to critize but I would make the disctintion building startups or businesses and building apps. The former usually have customers, employees, payrolls, revenues etc. But anyway it's great that you're building things.

Thanks for the feedback :) Yeah, I came to my senses eventually. Check it out... TickrTalk: [x] incorporated [ ] paying customers [ ] employees [ ] payroll [ ] revenue. Nope.

Just so much old literature on the internet that I haven't bothered to update. Too busy hacking ruby and python to care.

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