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Re:Why I dropped out of college for Y Combinator by hans_olo on Thursday August 30, 2012 @02:29PM (#4456037)
> drops out of school

> starts "facebook but for X" startup

way to go

Re:Why I dropped out of college for Y Combinator by mlwarren on Thursday August 30, 2012 @02:38PM (#4456081)
It's certainly not curing cancer or inventing the next generation of transportation. I guess this might be part of the "start small" realization?

It seems like a lot of the college dropouts opting for startups are ultimately limiting themselves from doing the sort of hard problem solving middle-school Brandon wanted to do. I think some level of formal education would be necessary to cure cancer.

Re:Why I dropped out of college for Y Combinator by Dirlewanger on Thursday August 30, 2012 @04:08PM (#4456486)
Seriously. Yeah, I see people going out and actually making something, but something of value it is not. Praying for this social bubble to pop any day now.
Re:Why I dropped out of college for Y Combinator by simba-hiiipower on Thursday August 30, 2012 @02:31PM (#4456049)
the new american dream.