I just started to write on my own personal blog (http://cjhudson.com/blog/) mainly to share articles and ideas to solutions in Sales Ops/Salesforce that I've faced. For me, it's probably too early to know if I would get contacted regarding a job or contracting offers, however - it can act as an online resume of things that I have done.
If you enjoy writing and sharing ideas, it couldn't hurt to put yourself out there not only on a personal site but as u/shortformblog pointed out, spread them to other online communities as well.
Dr Janice Duffy, the woman in the article, had many false & libelous statements written about her on a website - in this case being RipOffReport. Per Google's Removal Policy[1], the search engine forces you to contact a webmaster to remove the offending material yourself, or supply a valid court order of defamation. RipOffReport itself only gives you a few options: 1) She could've written a rebuttal to these claims, or 2) Paid off RipOffReport to do an "Arbitration" (extortion).[2]
She also could've sued RipOffReport in addition to Google - but like Google/Reddit/et al, they are protected by the Communications Decency Act in the States - not making them liable for anything users post.
In the end, what she should've done was sue the original authors of those posts on RipOffReport - winning the case (burden of proof is on her), and then having Google de-list the search result.[3]
Taking the third route in using a court order is by far the best way to go.
The yeast is not meant to be ingested, only harvested to refine the opiates.
Jay Keasling, a Synthetic Biology Professor at Cal [https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Jay_Keasling] uses E. Coli & Yeast to produce a precursor to a Malaria drug (artemisinic acid), as well as for environmental cleanup.
They too convert glucose to a complicated chemical structure of artemisin, which is purified through biological pathways further reducing cost.
Personally, I've taken rides for $45 split 4 ways, but more often than not it's $5-7/per trip for two. I'm no power user, but also probably wouldn't call a cab in those situations either.
I've seen that the best way to grow your company's culture is to hire people that your own employees recommend. That is, if you want to build your culture you'll want to hire people that your current employees have worked with before.
Brian didn't mention it, but I'll bet that their first engineer hire recommended friends or colleagues in the industry that s/he worked with in the past - whether that was at another company or even in an open source arena. From there, that network grew, much like a network of your first 100 people that love your product grows.
To expand on the above: What position/responsibilities do you need to have that person manage, and what are you offering to that person?
There's things like http://sideprojectors.com where you can showcase your project and find a cofounder on, or you can try to go on sites like FounderDating.com|founder2be.com|builditwith.me|etc, or head out and work on your projects at MeetUp groups in your area. There are several options, however I don't know the best way that works for you.
My Grandma is slowly losing her hearing - one ear is 100% deaf while her other remaining one is at about 50%. She uses a CapTel speech to text phone with a huge display to understand what is said when people call her. It generally works well, but she only has one in her family room. She struggles to hear especially when there are multiple people speaking and there is background noise. I've learned techniques to improve her comprehension, but it can only go so far (If interested, here's a few: make sure you're looking at them when talking, speak in a 'deeper tone', don't rush your words, continually repeat what was said until they understand, etc).
Almost everyone in the United States has a phone. If I could download an app that runs this program along with my cousins, and have my Grandma use her 'iPad' (Nook tablet) to understand, with the assistance of something like Transcense, that would be amazing. By linking several microphones, they may be able to cancel out background noise and only highlight the specific speaker, and that would be a fantastic advance.
I'm wondering what their current state of Transcense's speech recognition is, however. From the video, it did see like there were some errors. I'm sure a deaf user can understand what was meant to be said using context of the conversation, but in a business meeting a misunderstood word can change the whole meaning of the sentence or message. I've used Siri, Dragon Naturally speaking, et al and while they're good, they're not perfect. Dragon in particular supposedly can be taught and learn the user's unique style of speech, so I'm also curious if Transcence will be going the route of machine learning and NLP.
Inventions like the Easy-Open pull tab [1] didn't seem like much at the time either, but the simplicity in the invention helping increase it's adoption. If an invention makes things easier for people, it's definitely worth investigating and potentially roll out to production.
There have been companies working on the Tricoder XPrize[1] who are trying to replicate the infamous Star Trek tricoder. I personally think it will beat out on cost versus something like the HealthSpot, but I know nothing about what the market wants/will use/will pay for in the future. I do know one thing though, these guys seem well connected with some of the Old Guard and possibly Government to potentially have influence on rolling out pilot programs.
[1]http://tricorder.xprize.org/
You're correct when you say that creating a LLC is not hard to do. IANAL, but creating a LLC might not be the best choice of incorporation for a startup though. The referenced Y Combinator company Clerky helps incorporate startups as Delaware C-Corps for a grand total of $381 [1]. That's about as cheap as legalzoom, not including the filing fees for California LLCs (which are $800 a year to the Franchise Tax Board). [2]
I would think that in the future with Lyft, Uber, etc - that this becomes a data science problem. Similar example would be when UPS eliminated left turns to reduce overall 'idling' times. They could be able to take in all the requests in real time, use algorithms to process the data, and re-route drivers to optimize their paths.
I've worked primarily in marketing and operations, looking grow into product management or continue to build my skills as a full stack developer. Open to internships. Built a few small websites/blogs as side projects, getting a few thousand uniques a month.
I love solving problems, creating content, and building things.
I'll have to respectfully disagree. While search is their main product, with AdWords being their main source of income, Google also has maps, local, docs/drive, gmail, google play, wallet, android, etc.
While it wouldn't be a 'giant' without search, search definitely helped increase adoption of their other products and gave them revenue to invest into other things (plus their moonshots).
If you enjoy writing and sharing ideas, it couldn't hurt to put yourself out there not only on a personal site but as u/shortformblog pointed out, spread them to other online communities as well.