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Here are few gut-check questions to ask yourself before starting your company:

- Are you willing to spend the next 7-10 years of your life on this idea?

- If you run into hard times and it’s not working out (this could be years), would you be willing to push through?

- Do you have real conviction and passion for the space or do you just want to start a company?

- Are you willing to compete against 15-20 competitors with the same idea, and do you think you will win? Why will you win?

- Is your personal network supportive of you starting a company?

- Do you have sufficient savings set aside to sustain you while you fundraise?

Congrats on the launch, Matheus and Jérôme! How are you differentiating Tint from other embedded insurance APIs like Sure and Boost?

Congrats on launching! Any plans for a GitLab integration anytime soon?

Thanks for doing this, Peter. I'm currently based in Bangladesh but planning to incorporate my B2B startup as a Delaware C-Corp in order to be able to process recurring payments from international customers. I had two questions:

1) What are your thoughts on services such as Stripe Atlas, Clerky and others? Which one would you recommend (if any)?

2) After I complete incorporation, what are my options for moving to the United States at some point in the future, preferably later this year?

Congrats on launching! Have you heard of Glide: https://www.glideapps.com/? How are you thinking of differentiating yourself from them and others?

Does anyone have the syllabus for the Stanford MBA course that these videos are based on http://explorecourses.stanford.edu/search?q=STRAMGT%2B351&ac...?

Can anyone shed some light as to why companies might choose to spin out a division into a separate entity?

Here are a few ideas:

- Digital Service https://thedigitalservice.org/ (this was made by YC partner, Adora Cheung)

- Bayes Impact http://www.bayesimpact.org/

- DataKind http://www.datakind.org/

Shoe Dog by Phil Knight https://www.amazon.com/Shoe-Dog-Memoir-Creator-Nike/dp/15011....

Why did you sell?

I think he is. Leaving TechCrunch that is. If I'm reading the article correctly, he will be full-time at CrunchFund and serve as a contributor to TC (like Vivek Wadhwa and Rocky Agarwal does from time to time).

It was all a dream. I used to read (The) Startup magazine.

This sounds a lot like what Bill Gross' Idealab does http://www.idealab.com/

Curious as to why he wrote "Left in 1986 to decide which step to take NeXT" under his first stint at Apple. I thought he was fired by John Sculley.

I thought Quora was the "Quora for Startups."

Your ordeal with immigration reminded me of the importance of the startup visa.

There was a similar post on the 500 Startups blog last week: http://blog.500startups.com/2010/11/03/livin-la-vida-startup...

In her most recent interview (http://www.usatoday.com/tech/news/2010-10-08-bartz08_CV_N.ht...), Carol Bartz called Yahoo! "the largest media company in the world." What does local commerce have to do with media? Focus, Yahoo!, focus.

Apparently, China blacked out both CNN and BBC when the announcement was made (http://twitter.com/joCNN/status/26731788647).

Not as impressive as the PayPal mafia but still surprised to see the likes of Valve on there.

According to Scoble (http://scobleizer.com/2010/09/28/techcrunch-disrupted-by-aol...), Arrington owns a "...majority share, with Heather (Harde) owning a healthy share, and Keith (Teare) owning a far smaller share."

I'd hardly consider Business Insider to be mainstream.

Question in full:

If BitTorrent were to be designed today, what would be some key differences in the protocol?

Had to sacrifice grammar to make the 80 character limit.