He is a patriot, and we are all responsible if he is wrongly persecuted

He is a patriot, we are all responsible if he is wrongly prosecuted.

How long until they start committing citizens Judge Dredd style?

You don't think a dialogue around work-life balance is relevant to entrepreneurs & startup employees?

Definitely a good point - I would argue to takes time to reach this balance. The lack of work-life balance is a common trap many first-time entrepreneurs fall into. It honestly takes a lot of practice and discipline to get it right

I'm a self-taught software engineer and I can say with confidence a product like this is 1000x more valuable for the student. Enforce the mentor's schedule and this could really take off, I will certainly be using / paying for it

Wow - that's great to hear. I'm too embarrassed to put our company's URL in this comment because it'd be too obviously advertising. But man, are we doing exactly what you're asking for!

Nice! I'll check out Thinkful, I might need something a bit more advanced / focused on Rails tho

thank you

You're right gommm - our reason for starting this was to build a resource for fellow entrepreneurs to talk about serious issues.

The only person who can help an entrepreneur out of the hole is one who has been there him/herself. NO ONE ELSE

We are all human after all

How about we join forces bobby?We are both trying to help people, you more on the business side/me also taking care of the more personal side.I believe we can help more people this way.Email in the profile.In any case, good to see others help too.

We've been building businesses in our society for years and years, how could 'startups' be considered an immature industry?

The idea of "what exactly is a startup?" bugged me for a while until I read this PG essay:

http://paulgraham.com/growth.html

He eloquently explains that startups are different from "normal" businesses and VCs invest in them because of the possible rate of growth. This kind of business has only been very common in the last few decades in the tech industry. And has probably been amplified in the last two decades by the internet.

Many of the things we call startups are even today referred to by folks we call business people as "not businesses." Instagram for example: was a startup, arguably not much of a business, and doesn't seem to have much of an analogue in history.

There is no contradiction.

Instagram was started with the hope that if they gain enough users, they will be able to figure out how to monetize those users. It's not much of a business today, because they still have not figured out a way to do that.

Those who have invested in Instagram either believe they will be able to figure that out, or they believe they can sell it to someone who believes they can do so.

This is no different than if I were to open a convenience store. I open it -- I'm losing money on rent, the renovations, inventory, etc, etc, etc -- I hope that after a certain amount of time I will be able to attract enough customers to make up for that.. but until I do, I do not have much of a business.

In a way, Instagram is at the opening stage. They're building a user base (what would be the store in my example). And when they figure out how to monetize the users, they will 'open for business' and accept their first customers (probably advertisers.. but they might come up with something else).

There is no contradiction, and there are plenty of analogues in history.

i think it's fair to call the current manifestation of 'startups' comparatively immature.

There are several sites for music discovery (Boss.dj, Earbits, Beastmode.fm, ex.fm, We Are Hunted to name a few)

Agreed there are a lot of holes in the music discovery experience, I've yet to see a solution that really nails it

Out of curiosity, how do you find out about these sites? Up until now the only one I knew about was Indie-specific (Mixest) and Grooveshark

Just finished these screencasts last week and enjoyed every second of them! Thanks for helping me get started with Rails, Michael