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How a 19-Year-Old Raised $5 Million to Revolutionize Search

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Re: How a 19-Year-Old Raised $5 Million to Revolutionize Search

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easy to click Greplin Programming Challenge: http://challenge.greplin.com/ Anyone managed to pass level 1? I am stuck at level 1. Please share the logic.

here is a naive but working way to do it in ruby : https://gist.github.com/849625

Thank you. 0.upto(string.length - password_length) do |index| that's the line of logic I didn't it get correct.

Re: How a 19-Year-Old Raised $5 Million to Revolutionize Search

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Nice piece. I have a question that comes up every time I read a "we came up with our Y-Combinator demo in the last weekend and got funded" story--is this rare? It seems like I hear it all the time, but maybe most of the "last 24 hour" demos don't get mentioned.

It's surprising to me to think it might be common, because my gut reaction is that this means the founders don't actually have a viable product, but because they got funded before they could figure that out, it will now take months or years for the founders to move on (or pivot significantly). I'd love to hear why that's not what's going on, though.

Re: How a 19-Year-Old Raised $5 Million to Revolutionize Search

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Do startup founders in Israel tend to be relatively younger than US-born founders, and if so, why do you think that is?

Jewish men and women are a precocious bunch :) I'm sure you'd find that US-born Jewish founders are relatively younger too.
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