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Gmail is free. Storage costs money to maintain. 25mb limit per email + 7.5gig free 'storage' ain't bad.

Do a search on how to turn on Cleartype for whatever you're using.

As long as you keep developing your own skills as a hacker, you'll still be a valuable hire for any corporate. Experience is experience - whether it be at someone else's company or your own.

"but my life is miserable".

Why are you settling for that? You may think the easiest option now is to stay where you are. Sure it's stable but this is probably the best time to actually give your entrepreneurial dreams a shot!

Sure you won't be getting that paycheck but you're not needing that much money at the moment anyway. Plus you still live with your parents so you don't have to worry about rent, food etc. You'll still live.

++ You are still young, in your 20's. It's so much harder to make that plunge when you're 30,40 if you have a mortgage to pay off or a family to support.

What's the worst thing that can happen? You build some cool apps, try to make a business out of them but don't get enough traction? So what? You've taken a correct path in your career by doing something you enjoy. You can always go back to corporate. Plus you tend to meet so many more people if you really immerse yourself in the whole entrepreneurship community.

Take a big breath, quit your job and go do the stuff that makes you tick. By the sounds of it, you're in a pretty good situation to do so right now.

I'm curious: how many of you would be swayed to use Bing over Google because of this?

"Ideas are worth nothing" - it's a big statement and quite a prevalent view these days.

I think it's true to an extent - a successful startup doesn't need an entirely new, innovative idea but at the same time a new, innovative idea doesn't necessarily result in a successful startup. I think what's more important is not the idea itself, but the angle you take to market your idea. And that is why the blog post has some sound advice.

For example, facebook wasn't the first social network but the way it marketed itself (ie exclusively to college students ) etc was quite effective. Google wasn't the first search engine but its 'clean, simple' branding was quite unique.

Your marketing strategy/approach shapes the design and the features of your product.

How about the idea of role models? There simply isn't many female role models that motivate young women to go into tech.

Being involved with young athletes in high school - I know 18 year old boys who aspire to be the next Michael Jordan or next Michael Phelps. I know 18 year old girls who aspire to be the next Cathy Freeman.

Outside of sports there are also many industries where potential female AND male role models are rife.

Film, dance, journalism just to name a few. Even the 'normal' fields which have been thrown around - doctors, lawyers, business, teaching etc. Many young people are may aspire to be like that 'aunty who is a lawyer' or that 'family friend who is a doctor' etc.

But tech? .... Because the industry is so skewed towards males and because of that there is no... female version of steve jobs, or bill gates, mark zuckerberg to aspire to.

Just a thought.. what do you guys reckon?

I read this article a while back: http://www.allvoices.com/contributed-news/4018083-beggar-ear...

$50,000 (AUD) a year! no tax as well.

What do you guys think about a beggar earning more money as the average Australian who actually works and earns money(I'm simply giving Australia as an example because I live there)?

I think there are certainly the more 'honest' homeless people. But I do guess where you live. In some areas/countries being 'dishonest/dodgy' is the 'norm' and so it attracts the majority of homeless people to do the dishonest things they do.

Smart? or Greedy?

Great Idea.

I actually needed something like this a while ago. started using intuit's Billing Manager.

Suggestions: Tax options, custom logo, and pdf generation. Also predictive text on previously used line items stored in cache might be handy.

I think success is what you define it. At the moment - my own definition for my start up is enough earnings for me not to rely on getting another job on the side.