I don't know how useful it is, but I've also heard mention of Founder Dating (and there are regional meetups for those as well): http://founderdating.com/ Good luck!
We got rejected also. We're a designer & developer in Ireland, both early 30s (one American, one Irish). We've built a platform for designing/building magazines & newspapers once and publishing them everywhere (epub, .mobi, html, ipad, pdf, etc.)
It's called Woop.ie (Write Only Once, Publish It Everywhere), and we have a small number of customers at the moment. We just have a holding page here: http://woop.ie but our demo page was live and allowed magazine creation, issue building, previewing, etc. It got some visitors from yc. Unfortunately guess it wasn't enough this time around.
We'll keep working on it obviously. Considering applying to Brooklyn Beta summer camp, actually, anyone else?
Segregation is definitely unsustainable, but I definitely agree that mentoring and support groups can make a huge difference.
I've often been the only woman on otherwise all-male teams before and it's never bothered me. But I always appreciated having strong role models who were respected, technical women and open to mentoring and supporting others.
For me the electronic versus paper thing comes down to what I bought the book for.
For a book that I just need to reference occasionally, epub is usually fine. For a book where I'm starting from scratch, learning new things and coming back to the same bits over and over again, I prefer a paper version that I can write in.
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I think the best point he makes is at the end: Ballmer is not a product strategist. He is in fact a fantastic salesperson, he closed amazing deals for Microsoft when I worked there.
But he has no business defining product strategy, creating or killing product lines or trying to imagine what the public will want or what's attractive to customers. That stuff should all be left to Bill Buxton.
I am trying it for the first time, I just reserved an amazing-looking houseboat for a week in Amsterdam while I'm there for the Mobilism conference. Can't wait!
However I had tried it before in Paris and New York, and many people's places looked like they usually cater to couch surfers and are now doing the same but charging (often the same amount as a reasonable hotel!).
I think Airbnb has done a good job of curating certain lists (there's a collection of treehouse apartments/houses, for example, and cool, design-y places in London) and I'll probably look at those more than the regular area searches.
Great advice! I find the hardest part is just getting in the zone where I'm not distracted and constantly alt-tabbing to other things.
Ommwriter (http://www.ommwriter.com/) is a great writing tool to keep distractions at bay and focus you on your writing. There's a free version, but the better version is also quite inexpensive ($4 I think).
I use this in my home office - it sticks on any wall via static and wipes clean. It comes on a roll so you get 10 or 25 giant whiteboards which you can reuse. Absolutely love it.
The best manager I ever had was amazing at this and the reason was simple: he understood downtime and he negotiated.
So when we were trying to ship something and everyone was working late nights and weekends, he'd give us several days off afterwards. Additionally we had flexibility such that I could offer to work a few weekends in a row in exchange for a long weekend a few weeks later.
It was a great system and his employees always respected him for it.
Someone on the program now came to our Dublin OpenCoffee meetup last week to talk about it.
He said that due to the cost of living, he was able to employ some very smart individuals who he wouldn't be able to afford to pay if he lived, say, here in Ireland. And mentioned that other startups were doing the same.
So even if it's not a requirement it happily happens anyway due to economics/cost-of-living/etc which sounds great.
Kind of a bummer - the Zune HD was one of the slickest and loveliest devices I've ever owned. I can't help but think if they had tried to sell them outside of the US they might have gotten a bit more coverage/visibility.
Implying that the individual's browser is not modern might sound offensive. Lots of people aren't allowed to control which browser or which version they use at work.
I would rephrase it as a feature thing to make it more objective. "You appear to be running IE6 which doesn't support X, so you'll miss out on feature Y of this site. To experience Y, please either upgrade your browser or try Chrome/Firefox or Safari" might be a bit more useful to the user.
Groups like NY Tech Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/), SF New Tech (http://www.meetup.com/sfnewtech/), various regional founders groups on facebook are all places I've seen people connecting to talk about working together on startups.
I don't know how useful it is, but I've also heard mention of Founder Dating (and there are regional meetups for those as well): http://founderdating.com/ Good luck!