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startups are indeed important job creators, and college isnt for everyone. however, in a general population, a successful startup entrepreneur is about as rare as a professional athlete in basketball, baseball, football, hockey etc. For the rest, a college education is by far still statistically the best way to a stable career and success. Would you tell all inner city kids to forget school and instead focus on being a pro-bball player someday? no - not because you dont believe a handful will make it, but because we know 99% of the rest wont. hence, this is a message targeted for the rare 1% talents, not for the 99%.

small payouts, yes, to pay down a mortgage or for home/family-development. but nothing multi-million, especially 8-digits-- definitely not.

but small payouts do give founders enough security to swing for the fence.

anyone who is a serious frequent flyer needs to be on flyertalk.com - its basically the ultimate hub for all things related to flying and frequent flyer programs and airport rules and ticketing tricks. one can also trade 'instruments' on their coupon connection forum.

Flying over the north pole at night, my United 777 once flew perfectly anti-rotation for a while, and then non-rotation when over the axis-pole. the moon and stars never moved for over an hour - as the pilot pointed out.