21: Skype - basically my first real job. Still here. What a ride!
Poll: how old were you at you first startup?
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#32started Tutoring Advantage jr year at UCSB - connecting future doctors, engineers, and executives with struggling high school students :) most revenue & profitable company i've ever run (bubble? - more recently co-founded venture backed co.)
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#34In 1999 I worked for a startup and was about to go to college. I was asked by the CEO to drop out of school and get a huge salary - I opted not to take the option and go to school instead. Turned out to be the right choice as they were out of business 6 mos. later.
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#35Poll results in pie chart form http://hackernewspoll.appspot.com/2721141
oh this is a neat app, but wouldn't it be nice if it had th latest urls in the home page?
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#36In 1999 I worked for a startup and was about to go to college. I was asked by the CEO to drop out of school and get a huge salary - I opted not to take the option and go to school instead. Turned out to be the right choice as they were out of business 6 mos. later.
Hm. Going to school 6 months later, with a wad of cash in your pocket, would have been a bad idea?
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#37I was 8, you fuckface.
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#38I interned at a 1.0 bubble company the summer prior to my freshman year of high school. I built a website for the church I attended for no particular reason, the CEO happened to be a member, and he thought it would be fun for me to come work for him. I couldn't agree more, because the alternative was carrying around heavy golf bags for another summer. I had a really great summer working long hours writing ASP all day…
As an aside, being a golf caddy (especially in scotland) was a pretty awesome job to have as a kid, you earned more money than you should be allowed to at that age for a nice walk in the fresh air.
According to this[0] page on his website, pjhyett grew up in the Midwest. As a fellow Midwesterner, I can tell you that you do not want to be outside all day, every day during the summer carrying golf bags, because it is burning hot.
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#39This is a good question. 10: First entrepreneurial effort selling lemonade. 13: First software entrepreneurism selling a game on floppy disks. 16: First founded a company, ostensibly to make games. 18: First made a living contracting for myself. 25: First founded a company that became profitable and hired people. Which one counts?
Well, it depends on you. Everyone defines start-up in his way. For example, if it was me, I'll consider it at 10.
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#40I am 26 and am in the process of my first startup. Looking at all the young start-uppers makes me feel out of place. I am also just starting to code :| In fact when I was in college I hated writing code, but something about starting up wants to make me do it now. What are the chances I will make it ? Low, I reason. High, I feel. So does that make me stupid?
Inspiringly so.