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This is veru useful advice - http://www.gabrielweinberg.com/blog/2010/09/how-to-get-that-...

Great Advice :)

Thanks for the sound advice :)

Interesting, I totally agree with you. I considered my dad my Mentor too early on. But as one grows and our world view changes we probably start looking out for other people to look up to and learn from. Have you connected successfully with a Mentor after your dad?

Thanks for the idea, we have discussed this in the past and we needed more validation, this helps :)

We agree, it is a challenging problem to solve and we find that exciting. We will share our progress with HN...

It is totally up to the Mentor to decide on the level of engagement with a given Protege. The type of engagement is usually determined by the problem the Protege is trying to solve OR a plan/goal he is trying to validate. It could be one time or a periodic affair. The end justifies the means in a Mentor-Protege relationship. A long-lasting synergistic relationship is the ideal case scenario and we would love to enable that.

Nuron (sounds like Neuron) is our Mentor/Protege Communications Manager and Yes his name is derived from Nurall (sounds like Neural) :)

I think the author is talking about business method software patents. If the business method implementation needs patentable technology to implement, then it may not be such a bad idea.

But again I feel that for an early stage company, filing a patent just helps mitigate the risks in the VC's head more than anything else. Forget about enforcing your patent. If you are successful and you have a lot of money and you feel like bullying your competition, we all know how some successful companies go about it.

Thomasnet is a free resource to find prototypers and design shops - http://snurl.com/28w08 [www_thomasnet_com]

Social News is one of the features as I mentioned and for some users it might qualify as just a Social News site based on the way they adopt it but for others the Social News feature might be one of the features they will end up using. Our problem is how do we identify the least common denominator without having to do extensive A/B testing?

I came across this old article about how successful people work just recently. And I started wondering if there was some gap between how these guys work and how you guys work your time?

My question is to you HNers: How do you guys work?

Thanks!

p.s: I am pretty a whole bunch of HNers will consider themselves fairly successful to answer this question.

thx pg, sorry for jumping the gun

i meant to say, earlier we find something we love the better, so that we could start realizing our abilities sooner.. :-)

I think this is a useful metric for evaluating a startup team, but I do think the metric is subjective!

I am sure a lot of us (not so fortunate ones) realize our best abilities while working on something we really love.

So the best bet would be to describe your abilities relative to the problem you are trying to solve. How are your abilities helping your startup make significant forward progress?

pmarca on crack...

hmm.. interesting.. did PG mention it somewhere? thx for the heads up though :)

it actually depends on the question.. but a couple of 'em go upto 300 words..

that did help.. thanx

wat do you mean by "invented here"? Sorry for my ignorance.. just wanna make sure

If you don't mind sharing your experience with these cms freebies, that wud be gr8..

I am surprised nobody is talking abt good 'ol weed!! Don't you reach the peak of creativity under the influence?

But your website suggests that it cannot be consumed, how effective is it otherwise?

chk this out http://www.patentwizard.com/ along with the nolo.com book, you should be good to go

1. For a suggest feature in search?

2. For tags display of content?

3. Improving the auto-generated tag system through validation, in an attempt to not completely rely on user generated tags?

I do it too.. sitting and reading news.yc all day... and my day job takes care of the monetization..

I will be there too, not attending e-bazaar though :-(

My goal is to meet the right people AND get some candid yet valuable feedback for our startup. Hoping for some divine intervention ;-)

Related post on the Probability of success/failure - http://news.ycombinator.com/comments?id=7680

With Google launching its 411 service ( http://www.techcrunch.com/2007/04/06/google-launches-free-411-business/ ) along with the rumor about the GPhone, it does suggest that Google is entering the voice enabled communication/services domain. With Google's mass following, this only makes logical sense.

At the other end of the spectrum, there is MySpace along with other social networking platforms, where companies like Jaxtr ( http://www.jaxtr.com ) are trying to connect the offline medium with the online medium.

Should Google really be concerned at this stage?

The obvious thing about thefunded.com is they ought to be and will remain a boot-strapped company, unless they are acquired by a 'VC'