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Where should I move to maximize my career potential? | wdr1: I'm from Chicago (and still consider it home), but without question, California is the place to be. I moved west 10 years ago and it's been a fun ride. |
Hacking ability related to teaching language? | stonemetal: No, ingenuity isn't restricted to a single language. Besides after you have your eyes opened to new experiences in other languages your first language doesn't matter that much. When you first pick up a new language sure you drag your old programming habits into it but if you make the effort\spend the time in the new language you will pickup its habits after a while. |
Where should I move to maximize my career potential? | noodle: if everything else is equal, SF bay area. if you have other considerations that do have sway beyond brazen careerism, then that might change things. or it might not. |
How do you reach women 18-25? | CoreyLoose: Just got the opinion of a real live 21 year old woman on this topic. She uses Facebook on a daily basis and is tech savvy enough to use Gmail filters intelligently and download torrents.Here is the rundown of what she said:
-Doesn't read online news/blogs
-Clicked 5 or so Facebook adds lifetime
-Watches a copious amount of online TV (Hulu etc.)
-When looking for new services online she googles what she is looking for (budget manager, etc.)If I was going to go about a marketing plan based just on this anecdotal evidence I'd say SEO is quite important, and perhaps getting some adds during online videos (how expensive is this?) would be good because she seemed very adverse to clicking on anything she didn't go looking for in the first place. |
Hacking ability related to teaching language? | hs: yes, functional languages because they're more mathematical |
How do you keep away from HN? | timothychung: Reserve time for HN in your schedule. So you won't spend too much time on it. :-) |
How do you keep away from HN? | grinich: I go outside. |
How do you keep away from HN? | oldgregg: Build something like this for web monitoring:http://www.thinkgeek.com/stuff/41/snuznluz.shtml...5 cents every time you visit a page on your blacklist. Money is automatically donated to AIG pension fund or the enemy dujour... Parlay the user base into holy grail micropayment service = profit. |
How do you keep away from HN? | manish: I can't stay away when in office, but when working on my own at home, I hardly visit HN once in may be two hours for 5-10 min. |
How do you keep away from HN? | zasz: What's wrong with the noprocrast setting? Just set it to keep you away for at least 5 hours at a time. It can't be overridden anymore, which is sweet. |
How do you reach women 18-25? | Jem: Technically literate or not? If yes, I can give you some links to some areas where you could address these sorts of people directly and get some ideas from the horse's mouth, so to speak. |
Where should I move to maximize my career potential? | anamax: While SV is a reasonable answer, why isn't Japan on your list? |
How do you reach women 18-25? | gstar: That's a very broad demographic - Can you slice finer? The responses you have already are spot on, but they apply to a lot of other demographics too.If your app has a very broad market there's no point going after every 18-25/female because you can't afford to advertise to the whole demographic without some really really REALLY serious money. You'll need to "pierce the zeitgeist" with something that captures imaginations to get the word out.Pierce the zeitgeist? I do sound like a wanker, but you would probably need to step up from typical "viral" marketing techniques. Don't go herding sheep with LEDs, step it up. How? No idea! |
What do you use to order airline tickets online? | sheatsb: Farecast - http://farecast.live.comIt's prediction method is pretty accurate on timing when you should hold off/when you should buy tickets, and how ticket prices are distributed throughout the year. It also compares to the other budget travel sites (Hotwire, etc.). |
How do you reach women 18-25? | srn: The general class of women 18-25 or tech savvy 18-25? And of what interest group? You give far too few details for anyone to be able to help you. |
Are modified Y Combinator applications reviewed again? | pg: Effectively. There are very few applications already rated by two of us, and none by three. |
How do you know what you want? | ajju: I think you have already honed in on the basics: "You have to actually do it". If it seems like there are too many things to try and they all look appealing, you just need to understand yourself better and self observation will help you there.You are wrong to suggest that we grow to like anything life forces us to do. If you have an analytical mind, a job flipping burgers or pressing buttons as a tester is never going to satisfy you. You might be able to change the job to something you like more (e.g. write test scripts) but that's a whole other topic.Some additional things I have learnt that may be useful for you are: (1) There is no one thing predestined to be your calling in life, there are several things you may like. (2) If you really want something, you'll usually get it eventually or find something that you like better.It is useful to set a long term goal based on what you know you like so far and at least initially, while you are still in college, it is useful to state it broadly but don't tie yourself to a specific way of getting to that goal.For example, I know I enjoy coding, technology, business and teaching. There are several combinations of these that could end up being my calling. The specific image I may have in mind is to work as an engineer / technical entrepreneur now and become a teacher later in life, but I am sure there are other configurations where I would be able to satisfy all of my urges (e.g. a venture capitalist who focuses on technology and guides entrepreneurs and writes code for fun a.k.a pg).Your short term or "localized in time" options are always going to be restricted by your circumstances. You pick the best out of those options based partly on your understanding of yourself which will evolve with time (use pg's suggestions above/below) and (rarely) on your current needs. (e.g. You may have to choose a higher paying job to repay some loans even though you like the other one) but if you keep your long term goal in sight and don't lose hope on that, you'll be able to steer your way to it even if you get diverted temporarily by short term needs. |
Why is Ryanair monetizing airplane lavatories? | shard: Switching from free to pay will never garner good will, and when I run across it in stores (Borders Bookstore I am looking at you) I always find it a cheap tactic and makes the place feel low class. Ryanair should try other ways to monetize. Have they put advertising in the bathrooms yet? I've been seeing that more and more, and I find it much less objectionable than pay-for-pee. |
Why is Ryanair monetizing airplane lavatories? | gills: Perhaps there is a correlation between Ryanair's cheapskate customers and people who clog airplane toilets, and they are being crushed under the repair costs.Hey, you asked for open-ended speculation, that's what you'll get :) |
Why is Ryanair monetizing airplane lavatories? | Fenn: It's a publicity stunt. You'll often see press releases from the low cost carriers with stories such as this (or "Fat people to be charged extra") - RyanAir are particularly famous for it.They've got so much mileage out of this particular one, I'd be surprised if they don't roll it back out again in 18 months. |
Fast sampling and update of weighted items? (data structure like red-black trees?) | drcode: First, put all items into an array, computing a number k for each item, where k=(sum of all weights above it).Then, just generate a random number 0<x<(sum of all weights).Finally, do a binary search on the array O(log(n)) comparing x to k....As for the "updating" step, you didn't define that very well or state whether you're interested in minimizing that as well- But given that the number of items may be as large as N it seems that a naive linear update would be the best you could achieve. |
Fast sampling and update of weighted items? (data structure like red-black trees?) | Autre: A priority queue [http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Priority_queue] seems to be the way to go with this. |
Fast sampling and update of weighted items? (data structure like red-black trees?) | mjtokelly: Here's a sampling algorithm that will work, as long as the maximum weight isn't too much greater than the average weight:1) Determine the maximum weight mw. (This is O(N) the first time, O(K) subsequent times.)2) Repeat until an index i is accepted: a) Generate a random pair (i, x), where i is a uniform integer over [1,N], and x is a uniform float over [0,mw].
b) Accept index i if weight(i) < x.
3) Return the accepted index i.This gives you the desired distribution in time O(mw/aw) (maximum weight over average weight). |
Fast sampling and update of weighted items? (data structure like red-black trees?) | utnick: What does the << operator mean?and how are these K items found? Do they have the same weight as the sampled item? |
Fast sampling and update of weighted items? (data structure like red-black trees?) | loicfevrier: Red-black trees are far too complex for this simple task :
just use any binary balanced tree so that the maximum height is O(log n). (red-black trees will work but take any one you want, red-black tree are slow)
On each node you store two numbers :
- sum of the weights at the left
- sum of the weights at the right
Want you want to choose an item just explore the tree and for each node choose left or right according to the two weights.
==> O(log n)
If you update an item you'll need to update all the weight up to the root of the tree.
==> O(log n) for each update |
Fast sampling and update of weighted items? (data structure like red-black trees?) | eru: Interesting. Could you tell us what you problem you are solving? |
Fast sampling and update of weighted items? (data structure like red-black trees?) | jonnyba: if the number of different weights is finite and small, you could create a bucket for each different weight.for example if the possible weights are .25, .5, and .75, put all items into one of those buckets (array backed). The bucket then gets a weight of (individual weight)*(bucket size). First randomly choose a bucket based on the bucket weight, then randomly choose an object from the bucket. |
Fast sampling and update of weighted items? (data structure like red-black trees?) | a-priori: Of the top of my head, here's how I would go about this.First, preprocess your data:1) Normalize the weights
2) Sort the items in descending order by weight
3) Calculate, for each item, the sum of the weights of all prior items
4) Enter the items into a binary search tree. The key into this tree is the sum you calculated in step 3. You can use whichever data structure you want here... red-black or splay would probably be best, but it depends on your situation.Now your O(log n) lookup:1) Generate a random variate in [0,1)
2) Search the binary tree for the item with the largest key that is <= the variate. |
Fast sampling and update of weighted items? (data structure like red-black trees?) | hotpockets: As long as the weights are distributed randomly in the array, you can just perform the algorithm on a random subsection of the array. The subsection needs to have the same distribution of weights as the whole section. I think thats the only requirement you need.Ideally, you could pick smaller fraction of the array as N gets bigger, giving you sub O(N) scaling.In other words, if the array indexes that get picked using a slow algorithm are distributed randomnly, you might as well just pick a random subsection, as long as it is big enough to have the same distribution of W's as the whole array. |
Why is Ryanair monetizing airplane lavatories? | sharpn: I agree with Fenn, it's definitely c. They have form for leaking such headline-grabbing 'information', including one about introducing business class with rude 'extras'. |
Co-founder can't move to BA. Apply as single founder? | spoiledtechie: Apply! Tell them whats going on when your up for your interview. If they can't do that you will understand and you will need to get another co-founder or YC might understand. |
Co-founder can't move to BA. Apply as single founder? | sarvesh: You can still apply with him working from Mexico City. http://ycombinator.com/faq.html |
How do you stave off food comatose after lunch? | Oxryly: Reduce sugar & other carbs during lunch (replace with protein & fiber as much as possible.)Instead of caffeine you could try Yerba Mate tea... more brain energy, less jitters. |
How do you stave off food comatose after lunch? | adeleinr: You dont! You take a nap. |
How do you stave off food comatose after lunch? | khafra: Eat protein and increase your dopamine production, which is a "happy and alert" neurotransmitter (http://frank.mtsu.edu/~studskl/food.html). Going heavy on the carbohydrates spikes your serotonin, and if they're simple carbohydrates your insulin vs. blood sugar will suck the energy right out of your brain in an hour. Ergogenics like Adrafinil are a more extreme and expensive alternative to caffeine, but cheap nootropics like Piracetam or Vinpocetine may do the trick, if dietary changes alone don't. |
How do you stave off food comatose after lunch? | Tangurena: Eat, get back to the desk (check email or some low intensity stuff), then about 30 min later, go for a walk. Get out of the building and into sunlight for a minimum of 15-20 minutes. Hot, cold, doesn't matter. Get out and walk. |
How do you stave off food comatose after lunch? | pg: As other posters have said, avoid starch and sugar.Walking quite far to lunch is good. Then you have to walk the same distance after lunch. |
Why is Ryanair monetizing airplane lavatories? | arran: After airing the idea of paying to use the toilet they've apparently received loads of suggestions for other charges, so they've started a competition for people to suggest the next discrepancy charges, the winner gets €1000.http://www.ryanair.com/site/EN/news.php?yr=09&month=mar&...Check out the cartoon at the bottom. Definitely c) |
How do you stave off food comatose after lunch? | mgj: Eat less. I've also heard it's good for your health to eat less if you can.One of the common themes I hear from people who come to the US from overseas is that food portions are quite large here. |
state of the art in source code visualization | amichail: Check out some of my research on this topic. |
How do you stave off food comatose after lunch? | radu_floricica: Somewhat off-topic: I realized recently it's more important when and how you get your caffeine then how much. There's a reason 5 o'clock tea is famous. For me morning caffeine is wasted or worse, and the best time is around 3-5 in the afternoon, or a couple of hours after lunch. Metabolisms differ, of course.Also I switched to black tea: wider spectrum and longer lasting, but smaller punch. Don't abuse it though, may not feel like it but it's as strong as coffee. |
Any easy way to automate mouse clicks in Linux (Gnome)? | tocomment: I'm curious to see what happens on that page when I get to 0, but I want to be a smart hacker about it ... |
Can this be an answer to the auto industry? | russell: I like the simplicity. If you have a life changing event, you turn the car back in. If the event is that bad, they'll probably get it back anyway. Sounds like a pretty cheap incentive to me. |
How do you stave off food comatose after lunch? | icey: On the topic of protein rich lunches; what do people usually do?I like to take a lunch to the office since the need to eat seems to come up at varying times of the day. |
Can this be an answer to the auto industry? | buugs: Sounds like there must be major restrictions on this plan to prevent someone from taking a car back before the date without having to pay some sort of fee. To be honest a cars price goes down so quick it is probably in the interest to the consumer to take it back after a year, which means the lawyers must have cooked up some big agreement so that you don't take advantage and that will hurt the honest consumer, without solving the sales problem. |
Can this be an answer to the auto industry? | noodle: this was posted earlier, and i feel like, no, its not.is it a good idea? will it help? yes. but it won't solve anything. just a temporary fix, like a gas tax holiday or something. the fundamental problem is still there -- people can't really afford new cars right now. |
A good way to learn the Twitter API? | rscott: Not sure how good your feedback is going to be here, it doesn't look like that comes out until April 2009. Kind of confusing considering it says Buy Now though... |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | mcav: I graduate in May and plan to move to full-time. I'll be able to work on my startup because my parents have [thankfully] agreed to help me out while I try to bring it into the black. Since I've been working on it a lot during college, I hope to start making a profit not too long after graduation. I'm currently living with some college friends in a house and intend to live there for now, unless (A) money runs out and I need to move home, or (B) I decide it'd be better to move to the valley.I'm in Iowa right now; it's a dead zone, but I have resources available to me here (family, time, friends) that I wouldn't have if I just upped and moved to SF right now. Not that the prospect isn't intriguing of course. |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | nostrademons: The easiest way is just to move back in with parents. Most middle-class families can afford to do this; I think the stats from my graduating class (05, top private college) were that 50% of students were moving back home.I took a slightly different path: I moved back in with the 'rents, but I also took a job for a couple years and saved up money. Then I went full-time on my startup, funding it mostly out of savings (I was paying rent to my parents). It's funny - now that I've moved out, my expenses are only about $200/month more than they were when I was living at home, but the difference is that now I'm paying a complete stranger's mortgage instead of my parents. |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | cperciva: In my case it's a combination of (a) graduating with money in the bank due to generous scholarships, and (b) having low expenses due to living in my parents' basement.YCers, of course, are given a theoretical 3 months of living expenses and then usually get other investment at the end of the YC program -- so there's no mystery there (at least for those people for whom $5k == 3 months of living expenses). |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | peterlai: WebNotes’ first founder worked part-time on WebNotes for about a year after graduating before raising enough investor money to go full time. After going full-time, he gave everyone else an ultimatum to jump ship as well, and now, we’re a five person team.So, in short, I’m lucky. The startup has been able to fund me from the start. |
A good way to learn the Twitter API? | khangtoh: The best way in my opinion to learn Twitter API is to get involved by reading the API wiki ( http://apiwiki.twitter.com/ ), join the google group for Twitter API. |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | tokenadult: I see a common theme here in the first few submitted replies. What does an ambitious young person do if the parents area) dead and gone,b) sick and dying,c) impoverished,ord) stingy?(I ask as a parent of would-be start-up founders, trying my best not to fit into those categories, but never knowing for sure when I might fit into category a). |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | andrewfchen: I'd have to agree that in my case, I'm pursuing a full-time start up after having worked for a few years, saving up a bit of cash that will hold me over for the next few years. Along the way, gaining some experience from the corporate sector to bring to the start-up. |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | nolanbrown23: Everyone's how is going to be different and probably not applicable to your situation but here is what you can do...just make it fucking happen. This small piece of advice may not seem that helpful but what I'm trying to say is you're nuking it. You're over thinking. Jump in head first and see what happens.On that note, I don't recommend any plan that involves your parents, but that's just my undying need for self-reliance.If you really want to know what I do to survive, nothing special really. I cut back my costs but don't eat only ramen and live in a box. I pick up some consulting and freelance jobs and help out people with other stuff when I'm in need (menial labor can be a good thing). The key is flexibility. I think about my company 24/7, but there is no way I can work on it that much. There is more than enough time in the day to make a living wage and work on your startup full-time, just make it happen. |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | trapper: I started my first company by getting supported by my partner, working all day & night :). I had a deadline of 6 months to release which I met. We lived like students (still in a student flat), and by no means had any disposable income. It was exciting and daring, and paid off.My advice, find a brainy girl/boy who believes in you (and can add value in their own way) and talk it over :) |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | wheels: I've had two phases of my life where I went without income. The first was getting established as an open source developer, the second was starting a startup (both, interestingly, feel like they have a lot in common).After college I worked full time for one year. I kept living with college roomies and saved up about $10,000. I used that to work full time on open source for 10 months, and move to Europe (where I stayed).When I started Directed Edge 6 years later, I did something similar, but had more saved. I got my living costs back down to college student levels to ensure that we had a long runway.It's easy to stretch money out if you get used to it and easy to save enough money to live on for a year if you've got an IT job. The freedom of knowing that you can survive for a year on $10k while living well, mind you, is pretty awesome and it certainly gives you the flexibility to do something you think is worthwhile. |
A good way to learn the Twitter API? | siong1987: there is many wrappers for Twitter APIs for differenet languages. I am sure that you can find a wrapper for your favorite language.Save your money. |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | charlesju: My mommy loves me and is letting me bum it? |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | timothychung: Am I the only person who would ask my parents to pay for my living and allow me to startup?I am planning to live on the provision from my parents to startup after June. That is when my current job finishes. :-)Well, of course, I have got my ideas and plans ready before starting. :-) |
The best HTML editors for windows? | thristian: When I have to write HTML, I use Vim and Firebug.I believe the primary advantages of GUI tools like Dreamweaver are supposed to be ease-of-use and visual feedback, along with workflow tools like automatic site uploading. Since I already know HTML, I don't need the WYSIWYG part (if I did, I'd use Nvu or Kompozer or Mozilla Seamonkey); for feedback, nothing beats hitting F5 in a bunch of actual real-world browsers; for site-uploading on small sites, I'd much rather script the deployment myself with rsync or sftp, while on large sites there's usually some deploy-from-source-control script that renders Dreamweaver's tools moot. |
A good way to learn the Twitter API? | justin: I just wrote integrations with the Twitter API, Facebook Connect, and Myspace's REST API. Twitter was by far the easiest, and is dead simple. Save your money and just read the API doc, and then use one of the many libraries someone else already wrote. |
The best HTML editors for windows? | albertsun: Just a simple text editor is best. My favorite for Windows is Notepad++ |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | jlees: YC isn't the only program that allows Bright Young People(TM) to get off the ground. For example, I'm on the EPIS programme in Scotland (http://www.epis.org.uk - shameless plug) which is effectively a year-long YC, giving you a £10k loan to get started, free office space and a ton of mentoring. (The reason I'm interested in YC is because Scottish mentors and investors, for the most part, don't 'get' emerging technologies.)There's also the Royal Society Enterprise Fellowships, also in Scotland, which is an even cushier deal - you graduate straight from PhD to startup with a year's salary from the university and some small seed investment.For the most part universities want to commercialise your work, so if you're a graduate with no money but a ton of great work you want to turn into a business, there is support there - you just have to know where to look.This applies more to postgraduate students, mind; some of the things that supported me fresh out of my BA and looking to start some projects included a part time job that paid well enough to cover my basic expenses, leaving me free to tinker in the rest of the time, and doing a lot of freelance work which pretty much came to the same end. Having money saved up from internships and graduate stipends also helped, but I believe the system is a little different in the US ;) |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | lv_: Uh, I moved to the 3rd World. Forex swaps help for bread and butter income! |
The best HTML editors for windows? | nreece: Notepad2 |
The best HTML editors for windows? | bdfh42: In my opinion, the best editor for everything on Windows is 'e' a TextMate clone ( http://www.e-texteditor.com/ ). The cost is trivial and you get a chance to try it out to make sure it suits you.This editor is extensible using Ruby or Python and supports the full range of TextMate bundles so you can get up and running editing your language of choice right from the start.The support for HTML is good without being intrusive - plus the colour coding of the text keeps things readable and helps you find typos. |
A good way to learn the Twitter API? | hopeless: I played around with the Twitter API yesterday for the first time and running HTTP REST requests via curl (install it with Cygwin on windows) was invaluable to tracking down some problems and figuring out the expected results |
The best HTML editors for windows? | ScottWhigham: I'm a .NET guy and I've tried both Dreamweaver and the Visual Studio shell and I prefer Visual Studio. It can get in my way sometimes but, since I'm likely in it anyway writing C#, it keeps me from having to use two IDEs. |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | buggy_code: Talk to your parents.It's amazing what the response to"I just recently graduated. Instead of going to Europe to get drunk for a year, I'd like to go home for a year and write software for my startup."can be. |
You're a recent grad that's working full time on your startup. How? | eghanvat: I live in India, Pune. So the expense are really low as compared to US or Europe.
Plus, I really cut down on expenses and still manage to have decent lifestyle. I have a cook coming in to cook food and a maid to clean the house.I worked for a year and saved enough ($3000). This amount of money will go long way (8 to 10 months) if I spend frugally. I am already 4 months into developing the startup.Another thing is, develop a knack for getting things cheaply. If you search around, you can get same things far cheaper, than say from a Mall or Big shop. |
What to do after selling startup? | mantas: I'm just launching own startup this spring, so I cant say for sure...But if I succeed, I'll probably keep doing what I do now - code, blog and do startup once again. |
What to do after selling startup? | reitzensteinm: "wasting"? |
What to do after selling startup? | charlesju: Being a VC/Angel seems pretty fun, but knowing myself, I'll probably get itchy and want to jump back into the game at the first opportunity I see. |
What to do after selling startup? | dbul: Apparently starting a startup for startups is becoming a more and more popular post-sale activity. |
What to do after selling startup? | unalone: I haven't sold my start-up, nor has it publicly launched, nor do I want to sell it if the opportunity arises, but I'd imagine you go on to your next big idea.The people who do startups like the freedom of working on their own thing. That doesn't extend to just startups. Design video games, or direct a movie, or start a band. |
What to do after selling startup? | JungleDave: Often, go to work for the company that acquired your startup for a period of several months to several years. Few deals are structured so that the founders can just walk away after selling.
Beyond that, the most common path it to start another startup. It's addictive! |
What to do after selling startup? | fb: I'll probably waste some time contributing to open source projects and then invest into hookers :)
Really, if your only reason to do a startup is to do something else after that - why bother?
If you like contributing to open source projects - contribute now! You like drugs and hookers? What stops you now? |
What to do after selling startup? | Hexstream: Start another programming project that interests me, but without monetization considerations in mind this time. |
What to do after selling startup? | vaksel: a) Trip around the world to go race on every famous race track. Pretty much covers a lot of Europe + Asia.b) Setup a "Hey everyone, I got some money, and want to be an angel investor...send me your ideas." page. Invest into a couple of promising startups.c) Start thinking of something new to do. And then do another startup. |
The best HTML editors for windows? | lhorie: There is no "best" editor. It depends on your preferences and workflow.All editors will let you type HTML (obviously), but some have more bells and whistles - Dreamweaver has autocompletion turned on by default, and a WYSIWYG mode, which helps when drawing image maps, for example (the downside is that editors with more features usually have longer startp-up times).The toolsets can also be quite different (e.g. switching from Linux to Windows line breaks is a breeze in Notepad++, DW has facilities to integrate with other Adobe products, VS comes with a js debugger).Just pick an editor from one of the comments and try it (even the commercial ones have free trials). |
What to do after selling startup? | patio11: I have no particular intentions of exit-via-selling. Rather, I'm more of a mind to "hack capitalism": fit a job around what I want to do in life (find a nice young lady, spend more time with my family, feel the grass under my feet once in a while) rather than fitting life around mostly inflexible work obligations.I like work, don't get me wrong. There's a certain dignity to it, and I'd go bonkers if I wasn't solving problems for somebody. I just don't feel the need to do the traditional 9 to 5 thing. Or the 8:30 to zomg o'clock thing, which is slightly more traditional for Japanese salarymen. |
What to do after selling startup? | wheels: "Don't start a company unless it's an obsession. If you have an exit strategy, it's not an obsession." |
What to do after selling startup? | petercooper: I got out of programming as a necessity and in to doing things for the love of it. Teaching, evangelizing, helping people out, mostly. For me, programming was/is a means to an end, not something I enjoyed doing.. but helping other people to learn and enjoy programming is something I enjoy. (As an aside, I can now sympathize with those professors who teach subjects without having any commercial experience of them. It helps, but I don't think it's a prerequisite to being a good educator.) |
What to do after selling startup? | flooha: Really depends on what it sells for, but I have a much riskier and expensive startup which I would fund from the sale of the first one. |
What to do after selling startup? | YuriNiyazov: proving that P != NP |
What to do after selling startup? | feedus: Start again. |
What to do after selling startup? | birdman: Play golf. I thought that was the whole point of starting and then selling your own company. Plus, country clubs offer socialization opportunities. Even if the people are a bit snooty. |
What to do after selling startup? | coglethorpe: Prove the Riemann hypothesis. |
What to do after selling startup? | ivankirigin: Start my next one. I have ideas that scale - more grand and higher risk.I'd also work less when "not at work", and focus on my family. |
What to do after selling startup? | daremon: Certainly read this: http://philip.greenspun.com/materialism/early-retirement/ |
Do you know this business angel? | aristus: A quick check round the interweb shows that he is involved in many projects. I could not find a list of companies that he has actually invested in, nor the name of the hedge fund he used to work for. Many pages talking about many great things that are just around the corner. Improbably broad claims of expertise in "web/telecom" as well as all areas of renewable energy.His English has a distinctive style so I think it's just him.http://shagyacapital.weebly.com/renewable-energy.htmlhttp://www.linkedin.com/in/jeancarlhttp://www.capitalbooster.com/blog/
"Y Combinator gets the Sequoia, so what?" |
What to do after selling startup? | philjackson: I'd stay at home and watch mind rotting daytime TV in my pants. Lots of fatty, unhealthy food and perhaps a sprinkling of masturbation. Bit like the weekends really. |
What to do after selling startup? | yan: Related: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=398597 |
What to do after selling startup? | matthewking: I don't like the way that life is controlled by money, id much rather live life freely, and that's what I intend to achieve in part, by either selling my startup or just making it so automated that I can earn a living without working 40 hours a week.Then id probably go and see the world and all of its wonders. |
What to do after selling startup? | dmillar: I'd buy my parents house from them, and let them finally retire. I'd travel a bit, then setup a small office and start working on my list of ideas. |
What to do after selling startup? | grinich: You can start a small seed funding VC group, and name it after a cool trick in mathematics which defines recursion. |
What to do after selling startup? | gregparadee: 1) I would start all over again. If I was successful once I feel I could be successful again.
2) I have an idea for a non profit I want to start and knowing that I could financially support myself and have money to start this I would get it rolling
3)Invest. I may not have the next big thing but I'm sure other people out there do and I would like to help them out because I will have known what they are going through. |
What to do after selling startup? | mian2zi3: I traveled for a couple of years, then went back to get a PhD in mathematics. |
What to do after selling startup? | markup: If the amount of money were adeguate, I'd probably try and help other startup founders. |
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