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Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by EGreg »

markbao wrote: post #17

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) an…

Congratulations man! I remember back to the days when you made the flash for this: http://seethewall.com :) :)

You have come a long way.

Now listen -- I know how much you hated high school, but college is the time when you make all the social connections that will last you for the next 10 years! (And some of them, well, a lifetime.) It is probably where you are going to meet the people who will help you meet your wife. Well, maybe not directly, but she'll definitely get a sense of your social group when your friends are making her have a great time and regaling her with their crazy stories about you. And so ....

REMEMBER

Do not treat college as a preparation for a lifetime of serfdom. Instead, treat college as a social opportunity! Oh and one more thing -- do your studying done early and go out :)

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by EGreg »

markbao wrote: post #40
abhishektwr wrote: post #27

Although I am very much impressed by Mark's work, his dedication and particularly the way he is trying to be different from other teens in the same age group is really appreciable. But I am not inspired with his philosophy of 11 startups, my advice please start thinking big (I mean what is that threewords.me thing anyway), you can certainly do better things if you try to keep the larger picture in mind.

thank you very much! big is http://avecora.com - I've been told it's too big. threewords.me was an MVP I built in three hours (two of them being design) that just randomly took off. never really meant it to be anything huge.

hey mark I'm glad you designed avecora front page now - explains very well what it does and I support it

I like that idea so much that actually I have been working on a social network doing just that. And it's gonna come out before 2013 :P Sorry :) Better hurry up!

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by markbao »

neilk wrote: post #52
yuvipanda wrote: post #50

I'm 19 and got nothing more than a Google Summer of Code and some halfdecent apps. Makes me feel insecure :(

Yes, you've only had your work accepted to a program run by the company with some of the best software engineers on the planet, that rejects at least 98% of those who even apply. What could you possibly do to surpass the kid who bought 11 domain names, some of which have apps attached to them? No offense to Mark Bao, by the way. I greatly admire that he's put together so many projects and is trying to interact at an…

Agreed 100%.

yuvipanda, seriously, the last thing I want to do is make other (young or old) people feel like they're inadequate... some of these that I used to call 'startups' are basically half-baked MVPs with marketing on top. Don't sell yourself short dude.

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by nate »

tomerico wrote: post #28
markbao wrote: post #19

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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…

I think the parent poster meant is - how would you achieve that, not how you would spend it :)

Ha, I love that part about it though. Maybe making the 10 million is already predestined in his head. The hard part now is figuring out how to spend it. Probably something Napoleon Hill would be proud of.

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by rdl »

axod wrote: post #41
acqq wrote: post #14

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> 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?

FWIW, I'm 32. I guess you can go chasing girls in night clubs when you're older, but it's way easier to do that stuff when you're young. Similarly it's possible for people to wait until their 40s to have kids, but I'd say it's far easier to have them when you're young and have the energy.

I'd be interested in seeing a graph of difficulty of raising kids with age and income -- it probably depends on parenting style, but I think it would (will? maybe.) be easier for me to have kids at 40 with >$bignum than at 18 with $1k, assuming I'm in excellent health for my age (honestly, I'm healthier and more fit at 31 than I was ever before, and hopefully at 35 will be even more so -- not being into exercise early is probably my biggest regret).

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by hcmag »

markbao wrote: post #40
abhishektwr wrote: post #27

Although I am very much impressed by Mark's work, his dedication and particularly the way he is trying to be different from other teens in the same age group is really appreciable. But I am not inspired with his philosophy of 11 startups, my advice please start thinking big (I mean what is that threewords.me thing anyway), you can certainly do better things if you try to keep the larger picture in mind.

thank you very much! big is http://avecora.com - I've been told it's too big. threewords.me was an MVP I built in three hours (two of them being design) that just randomly took off. never really meant it to be anything huge.

Could someone tell me what MVP means? I see that term used everywhere on HN, but I don't know what it stands for.

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by smallhands »

psaintla wrote: post #26
axod wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Richard Branson agrees completely, going to clubs, chasing girls, and dirt biking is too immature at 50. Girls chase him to go to his private island and do this: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/20/article-1171739-04...

wait somebody photoshoped the girl in right!

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by smallhands »

psaintla wrote: post #26
axod wrote: post #11

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

Richard Branson agrees completely, going to clubs, chasing girls, and dirt biking is too immature at 50. Girls chase him to go to his private island and do this: http://i.dailymail.co.uk/i/pix/2009/04/20/article-1171739-04...

wait somebody photoshoped the girl in right!

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by ximeng »

hcmag wrote: post #66
markbao wrote: post #40

Earlier quoted context omitted.

thank you very much! big is http://avecora.com - I've been told it's too big. threewords.me was an MVP I built in three hours (two of them being design) that just randomly took off. never really meant it to be anything huge.

Could someone tell me what MVP means? I see that term used everywhere on HN, but I don't know what it stands for.

Google for the below

site:news.ycombinator.com what does mvp stand for

Re: 17 years old, 11 startups

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Post by smallhands »

axod wrote: post #37
markbao wrote: post #25

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Thanks for mibbit :) Somehow I still manage to fit in time for everything. [x] going to nightclubs [x] chasing girls (though at this stage a big waste of time, seriously) [x] dirt bikes [x] video games ...

Thanks :) Cool, as long as you can fit in all you want to achieve in life it's all good. I spent a lot of my teens sat in front of a computer writing assembly language, and although infinitely enjoyable and useful to me now, I probably did miss out on some of the social aspects of being young (Not that I was particularly interested in those things at the time). The other thing is I started roller skating when I was a…

may be you are a scary good programmer now I may guess?
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