It is approaching about that time where I need to decide on whether I should go to grad school or not (I am currently an undergrad). My future goal is to start a start-up, but I don't feel 100% about anyone else I know right now to be my co-founder. Therefore, I am stuck now on deciding whether it is better worth my time just heading over to Silicon Valley and getting involved there and...
I know a lot of people say that getting involved in an open source project is a great way to pick up some useful skills from some smart people, but how exactly does one get involved in something? (i.e. how did you start out?)
I read somewhere that when choosing a language for your start-up you should pick the most powerful language available (e.g. why Viaweb picked lisp). This sounds obvious, but I can't help but feel like if you build a great product using unpopular language X and your competitor builds a slightly (or even significantly) worse product with popular language Y, then a buyer would prefer your...