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There's Airbnb and Uber. Add spotty cellphone service, higher cost of living, higher cost of supplies, crumbling infrastructure, substandard internet as well as JFK/LAX/ORD airport. From the hype I've been hearing…

Bill Gates is now doing his best to eradicate diseases around the world. Before Steve Jobs died, he revolutionized mobile technology for the common people. Now the technical co-founders. Paul Allen. Last time I heard,…

I'll define traditional hiring as getting a job via the "Career" or "Jobs" section of a company's website or going through a staffing firm (except for small startups which is a completely different category).…

If so, how did you do it? Was the old team still there or did it need new people?

There's the Google Bus, the Apple Bus, the Facebook Bus, etc. How about startups?

For the old timers here, what was is it like in the suit and tie culture of the past? Do you know or have you been fired for choosing not to wear one? Any stories of employees firing their best employees or passing over…

Quite frankly, I'd say more than 70% of the stuff customers want end in a product up being worthless and useless to their core business yet they DEMAND IT to the point it's eating up their business. So, what's someone…

I'm used to knocking at a lot of doors and hearing the word "no" or "your idea needs major work". I'm a nobody - that's expected. I use the information they give me to self-improve and figure out what's wrong with the…

Let's try this example. Think about navigation websites before Google Maps. Think about it after Google Maps. Look at Node.js. Build a time machine, go back to the past before Google Maps. Tell people about Node.JS. Now…

No, not the companies in Silicon Valley but the region itself. I'm reading articles about how CalTrain almost ran out of money, how VTA is underfunded, and articles upon articles about how the region can't build any new…

From what I've read, the standard way for a startup to cash out is to sell it to a bigger company. Here's the problem, I've watched many my favorite startups slowly die after they were sold. Except for a few rare ones,…

I'm in hardware. I like hardware. I like Apple. I'm in awe in what they do. I like Steve Jobs philosophy on hardware and design. I look at the designs. I like what I see. I want to create something like that. The…

I don't know if it's me getting wiser or if the Internet is just becoming worse. A decade ago, I could find good, somewhat reliable advice from the Internet. It wasn't always true but it was easy to separate good from…

Uncontrolled complexity is dangerous. It causes things to collapse on itself. Contained complexity is useful. It allows unimaginable things to be built. You could say the result of contained complexity is this phrase…

Do they? Is that why so many A players are banished to spend the rest of their lives in specialized communities like Silicon Valley?

I have a bunch of ideas but no money to implement them. I'm looking for unrestricted cash to try out a few of those idea. I have an idea on how to build it but the idea uses such "eccentric" business methods that it…

I propose a persistent storage solution for ANY idea to a traditional technical community. Immediately, a SQL relational database is proposed as the solution. I suggest other solutions. I'm sad now because everyone is…

You have a job interview with X company and you have only one shot to impress them. You have a pitch with a VC, you only have one shot to show them what you have. You have a meeting with Y company, you have only one…

Except for Apple, the military, a few smaller companies - I'm having a very difficult time finding any hardware startups or innovation companies that even matches that of the software world. Yes, there's massive…

I've been noticing that the more money a company has, the more successful it becomes, the more dumb it becomes. There are a few exceptions - Apple - but those companies are rare. What is it with money and market share…

You have a nice stable community for your underfunded Web 2.0 startup. All of a sudden, it grows - exponentially. The key word here is underfunded. Your running on low end VPS and your on your own. How do you handle…

I once built a Q&A site for advance technical questions. It didn't work out. It ended up having an overwhelming amount of bots instead of people using it. A while later, Stack Overflow came online and it became a…

From the blogs I've read, including PG, Silicon Valley's biggest pros is the spontaneous networking and idea sharing. You can eat down at a restaurant and hear and idea float across and all of a sudden have a new…

On paper, this city and state seems almost perfect. The government is solvent. There's no income tax. The housing is somewhat affordable. A rail system is actually being built. I hear there is a strong technical…

Silicon Valley is neat. I want more of them. There's a lot of money floating in the world today. Tons and tons of money. Silicon Valley only get's a small portion of it. The rest of the world gets an even smaller…