pascalchristian

Chrysis (cough cough)

As a doctor and health-tech startup founder (although not based in the US), I can confirm that this reporting is bullshit.

First of all healthcare is a very conservative space. Unless your product demonstrate a truly significant progress, nobody will give an eye at you. The decision making progress is very slow and very conservative. So even without the big medical supply corp, Shaw might never had a chance anyway.

"And it seemed to be remarkably effective: a 2007 clinical study funded by Shaw’s company and conducted by the independent SGS Laboratories found the device prevented germs from being transferred to catheters nearly 100 percent of the time"

Cigarette companies have sponsored plenty of "independent" studies that shows that cigarettes are not detrimental and even healthy. So take that with a grain of salt.

"But Shaw still isn’t any closer to breaking into the hospital market, and in the meantime the life on his patents is dwindling."

Really? Patients losing their life over some IV caps?? IV caps are always going to be more prone to infection when compared to needles (since well, those caps are stuck in there for weeks while needles are disposable), but nurses are trained to look at sign of infections ASAP.

I am actually considering trading my iPad for an 11" MBA. It's just an inch larger, pretty much the same thickness, and much more productive.

Hi wiradikusuma,

In Indonesia, the only legal entity for a single founder is sole propriatorship. Even a CV would require a partner.

Anyway, if you are approaching for an investment (not a loan) the only possible legal structure in Indonesia is an LLC/PT. A sensible investor would never invest in a CV since then they can not sell their stake without consent from all other stakeholders. Also, I believe there is a market cap of 1B rupiah which does not apply to PT.

Your best bet would be to start a PT with a "borrowed" name i.e. your mom or even better, find a real partner to be a co-founder. Starting a business is hard, if you can get someone to share the burden from you, that would be REALLY helpful.

Disclaimer: I am not a lawyer so do not assume everything I write is 100% correct. Do your job and consult an expert.

She has a 3D laptop

quote of the day: "we are definitely not saying that people should use such techniques to treat children with learning difficulties or anyone else..."

So if I hire stupid and lazy programmers my valuation will approach infinity?

jetpack, robo-maid, soylent green

Probably the similar to how Mint and inDinero works; they use a third party service (such as Yodlee) which provide aggregation of financial data.

There was a thread about this: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1537825

Complain, then call my ISP repeatedly :P

Can you share resources for studying the distribution mechanism?

The guys at autoblog are discussing this vid. It seems that it has been prepared, there's no liquid coolant nor any fluid containers that can be seen.

Edit: here's the link http://www.autoblog.com/2010/09/10/video-team-tears-down-the...

The costume competition pic is sooo deceiving.

Reminds me of this proposal: http://www.thespacereview.com/article/669/1

One man, one way to Mars. There's no need to carry a body then.

Also invite only?

I agree with Protege that this is an apple to orange comparison. The exact hedge fund is not specified, it could probably invest in anything other than most US large caps represented in S&P500. Heck, it could probably consists of Chinese index funds, which would definitely outperform the S&P if the US spirals into an economic crisis within the 10 years or so.

Not exactly a job per se, but just go and spent your time in vegas. It took serious thinking to beat the house in roulette, poker, blackjack, or baccarat.

that has not crossed my mind.. still it's unbelievably difficult though..

wow thanks. I'm reading it now.

edit: i've done reading it and it seems that the solution is to provide some sort of backward compatibility so you would have a user base or (software base) on day 1. so essentially if i want to start a date site, i should flirt with random girls on the street on behalf on requests from the internet as a backward compatibility?

start a business? even if the business is only decently successful, testimonials from your clients would make great letter of recommendation for grad schools.

reading my comment again, it sounds like a great app idea. steam for file ftw!

the file does not need to be erased, the file can be encrypted with a key which is hosted on a secure server. after a user uses a key for sometime, it would expire and they would need to request a new key from the server. however you can set the server to stop issuing keys, and hence the file would never be opened again. this is similar to shareware distribution, it has been done for ages i guess. think steam.

Indonesia

nobody mentions Netbeans yet? it's an amazing IDE with support for html/css, javascript, php, java, phyton, etc and its totally free (GPL license I believe) and cross platform

what vps provider do you use? i'm thinking on hosting at netbeans, but not really sure whether it is good or not.

if you are a medium/high risk I'd say go for mutual funds. but don't get a US based funds. the fee is very high and pretty much not worth it. get an offshore funds instead. funds in developing countries do not charge yearly fee, only an entry/exit fee. Indonesian based funds, which I invested on, has recently gained over 100% return this year. Read: http://www.thestreet.com/story/10684590/indonesia-etf-up-146...

i guess high risk = high gain?

this is a similar situation to me. I'm a college senior at a shit school, from a not technical major. Masters/PhD would be great but they are either extremely competitive or very expensive. I guess that's what push me into entrepreneurship/and more biz oriented, because that's probably the only thing I could do.

there is no way that picking a girl would be such a good idea. unlike business, you can't forecast happiness from you gained from a girl based on previous data or market research. if she'll dump you the next day you'll be jobless and girl-less.

So that I can do things I like, and make money from it