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Most Early Admissions programs are no longer binding. Students from families earning less than 100K no longer have to pay tuition at several top schools. Every school I was accepted to pretty much offered the same financial aid, which was inline with what FAFSA said my family should contribute. I have never heard of anybody admitted to a top school having to turn it down due to finances. There is plenty of aid (grants that you don't have to repay) for anybody who is not rich.

As for SAT tutoring, well for kids applying to top schools this will probably improve your M+V less than 100 points. If it's any more than that, you probably aren't top school material.

LOL. Pincus had the absolute worst speech at "Startup School". He didn't prepare anything and just meandered aimlessly from one thought to the next, rambling on about his life story. It was almost intolerable.

Anything that cites Outliers instantly loses credibility for me. Maybe his presentations became more visual throughout the decades because of the technology available.

Well according to Quantcast, this site now only gets 5.9K US visitors a month, so you might not need even 5K to have a decent site. At its peak HN got around 17.4K.

Showing the summary of the story is a REALLY good idea. It's also cool that it gets the summary for you, and you can change it if you want. The font is a bit cramped-together and small. It's pretty unpleasant to look at. What is your bounce rate? I think changing the font to make it initially more comfortable to look at might improve your bounce rate. I don't mean serif to sans-serif. Your font is so serify that it looks italicized. There are lots of lighter serif fonts.

Yup this is similar to the cool thing that Chegg introduced after years of just facilitating student-to-student exchanges. I used to just sell to students directly (and usually could come very close to covering initial purchase price), but after graduating I had to turn to Chegg to sell my books. Prices weren't nearly as good as they were with direct selling, but they were much better than what the bookstore would offer.

The HUGE advantage to selling on Chegg instead of Amazon is that Chegg gives you REAL MONEY (in the form of a prepaid debit card). Some functionality on their site could be improved, but the fact that they give REAL MONEY gives them a big edge.

My personal opinion is that it's time to let SQL and RDMS go. Free the world from the shackles of schema.

You go to business school because you need that MBA for your job or to switch jobs. It is not about learning. It is about networking (and partying) for two years.

If you want to be an entrepreneur, sitting in a lecture about entrepreneurship does nothing towards achieving your goal. The problem with business school and business theory is precisely what this guy thinks is a virtue: addressing the "why". In real business, and especially entrepreneurship, figuring out the answer to the why is the easy part (although consulting firms would have you believe otherwise until they collect their fees and leave behind a book of trite observations and obvious suggestions). Executing on that why is what matters. Execution is everything in business, and especially in entrepreneurship.

Xbox has done pretty well. There's too much blind Microsoft hate on this site.

Wow. And check out www.fundable.com

Customers are encouraged to use Kickstarter as a replacement for Fundable.com and seek legal action against Louis Helm personally should he fail to resolve your payment issues promptly.

The hilarity continues at PDXCell.com Check out the section entitled: "A response to this page". Shoulda known he was an Apple fanboy.

Why should the Goldbach Conjecture be included? Just because a problem's formation is easy for many people to understand doesn't mean it is an easy problem that should have been solved. The Goldbach Conjecture would be better classified as what that blog calls a 'mathematical disease', a legitimately difficult problem that infects the attentions of many mathematicians. I'm not sure the Goldbach would even qualify for this because I feel like it's famous more for attracting the attention of pseudomatheticians than genuine ones.

Yeah, she clearly has such a shallow understanding of mathematics that there is no way she can begin to appreciate what Perelman achieved or write anything intelligible about his process.

"Perelman has a mind that is capable of taking in more information than any mathematical mind that has come before" is the type of nonsense that will drive away many of the people interested in this topic.

Most Admired: Bill Gates - he's the only one I can think of who's truly top-notch from both a technical and a business standpoint

Who I wish I were: Steve Chen and Chad Hurley - they went from idea to $1.65 billion in a year-and-a-half

I guess I shouldn't bother applying. I am unreasonable, freeze in the face of fear, lie pathologically, hate leverage (seriously though, when did corporatespeak become a value?), and favor hotness over chillness.

Chandra is clearly an untrustworthy scumbag. He can't speak perfect English and isn't even white. This alone makes Michael Arrington the legitimate creator of the JooPad. Chandra's story is full of holes. I mean, who cares about who actually built the software and the hardware and the tangible aspects of the product? The TechCrunch people went to Singapore for a whole month! What were they doing there if not contributing their extensive expertise in tablet-device ideation? Surely you don't expect us to believe you came up with the idea to include Youtube all by yourself. You can hide behind your IP and legal rights and Bruce Lee for now, but just wait till someone digs up your old blog where I'm sure we'll find the missing legal documents where you hand over your creation to TechCrunch. Like most of the other posters, I don't care that you've answered the key questions surrounding this case and all Arrington can do is raise a bunch of tangential issues to undermine your credibility. Here in Silicon Valley, we value ideas over execution, loud-mouthed promoters over serious technologists, being part of the start-up establishment over being a genuine entrepreneur, and, of course, appearances over substance.

Doubtful.

I'm not that wealthy.

No. The people who friend everybody are not real Facebook users. They are generally older people, already out of college/grad school who are unable to build a true network of acquaintances on Facebook and are just on Facebook to feel as though they are participating in social networking. Twitter is a more suitable option for these people because it doesn't require any genuine social interaction. Real Facebook users have hundreds of photos and thousands of wall posts accumulated throughout the years (of college). For them a Facebook account is actually an online profile of their actual lives. Most will want to keep this private.

And nobody cares about status updates. They're generally just an inane sentence about whatever you're doing. But isn't that all Twitter is? YES! Twitter's entire function is just a minor feature on Facebook. But remember, Twitter's purpose is to allow old people who can't make a real social network to delude themselves into think that they're on the cutting edge of technology.

Yes. This is the major problem with leaving out a public option. There is no way to control costs without one. Preventative medicine has been shown to improve patient outcomes but has also been shown to increase, not lower, costs.

Just want to point out Chegg seeing as no one else has brought it up. They're a similar site and pretty big. The difference is that they hold their own inventory, and students can sell their used books to Chegg.

This is definitely one of my favorite speeches of all time. It's so inspirational, particularly for a young college student aspiring to be a great entrepreneur.

Too bad they couldn't find someone better than Anthony Kennedy for the '09 Commencement.

Good point. Business plan competitions are good indicators of who can succeed in cashing out during dot-com bubbles. Essentially, you presenting a business to group of clueless individuals. If they buy your pitch, you are more likely to be able to either con a clueless internet-bubble company's board into buying your company or fool collectively clueless merchant investors into buying into your IPO.