It seems to be all hype because they're 11 years old. The little girls website is proof of that.
Disagree. After startup weekend. I started mentoring the Marci and helped setup her site and launchrock page.
11-Year-Olds Learn Life Lesson During Startup Weekend
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#13Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Wayne Sutton confuses lack of interest in conducting srs bzns as racial prejudice/racism I don't think he's implying that at all. At the end, Sutton just notes that there were few minorities. He never explicitly makes the connection that the kids were actively discriminated against because of their race.
Correct! That's not the point I was making.
Apologies, I inferred that since this piece was written on blackweb20.com , you were saying the reason the two youngsters weren't getting attention was due to their racial background instead of age.
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#14Earlier quoted context omitted.
> Wayne Sutton confuses lack of interest in conducting srs bzns as racial prejudice/racism I don't think he's implying that at all. At the end, Sutton just notes that there were few minorities. He never explicitly makes the connection that the kids were actively discriminated against because of their race.
Correct! That's not the point I was making.
Then why is the headline "Two 11-year-old entrepreneurs learned the hard way what it’s like to be a minority in tech during Startup Weekend"?
Is minority here referring to being outliers in the age distribution or "a sociological group that does not make up a politically dominant voting majority of the total population of a given society"[1]?
If it's the former then you should say "in the minority" or something. If it's the latter, and you're not making this an issue of racial discrimination then you need to change the headline to something like "Two 11-year-old entrepreneurs learned the hard way what it’s like to be rejected during Startup Weekend".
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Correct! That's not the point I was making.
Apologies, I inferred that since this piece was written on blackweb20.com , you were saying the reason the two youngsters weren't getting attention was due to their racial background instead of age.
I think the headline does lead you to that conclusion, even if not explicitly stated or even the author's intention:
"Two 11-year-old entrepreneurs learned the hard way what it’s like to be a minority in tech during Startup Weekend"
Being on blackweb20.com, I would assume "minority" is referring to race here. Wayne, you may want to update the title here if you want to avoid some confusion.
(Wayne: By the way, I'm in RTP and just noticed your trioutnc site from your profile - looks like a nice tool so far, i'll be trying it).
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There are few minorities at pretty much every startup event, if you discount east Asians that is.
That's not very surprising since they are "minorities", implying that there aren't as many of them.
Minority in the sociological sense doesn't necessarily refer to numbers, but voting majority. ie. blacks in South Africa during apartheid outnumbered whites but were a sociological minority.
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Correct! That's not the point I was making.
Apologies, I inferred that since this piece was written on blackweb20.com , you were saying the reason the two youngsters weren't getting attention was due to their racial background instead of age.
No worries and thanks. Yes TriOutNC.com and we're working on launch a few new TriOut apps.
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#18Earlier quoted context omitted.
Correct! That's not the point I was making.
Then why is the headline "Two 11-year-old entrepreneurs learned the hard way what it’s like to be a minority in tech during Startup Weekend"? Is minority here referring to being outliers in the age distribution or "a sociological group that does not make up a politically dominant voting majority of the total population of a given society"[1]? If it's the former then you should say "in the minority" or something. If i…
yes, I state that in the post about ALL the factors for the 11yrs old as "minority" in terms of their age, gender for the little girl and race.
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#19Interesting story, I personally think that their age was the major reason for being left out. Both ideas weren't worse than some of the stuff I've seen out there being lunched and getting funded. At least they picked things that were directly related to their personal interest. I wish someone had pointed them to AppInventor for Android. I think App Inventor is directly targeted to young people like them. While I was…
Yes, I their age played a big roll. Also you had to be there to experience it. I tried to tell the story as it happen.
The kids were serious in pitching and people voted for them but I don't think everyone who voted for them took them serious and wanted to join their team.
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#20I attended startupweekend in nyc recently and enjoyed myself thoroughly! That event also included a kid pitching an idea (this kid was white). That idea was selected but I believe no one joined the team until day 2 (Saturday). I did find this surprising because the idea was decent. On the morning of day 2, the organizers made an announcement if people were still looking for a team, the kid's team was "open". A few people answered the call and that's great because the kid's team ended up winning one of the three special prizes - kudos to the kid and his team!
Why the lack of support? I suspect it might be because other participants are looking to build a network rather than work on the next Facebook.
Also the idea person becomes the effective leader of the team. I'm not sure how well a kid would manage a motley troop of developers+business people+designers. From my experience, most adults would have trouble with this task :-p