hiromichan

Uhm I guess it's about common sense and not being an engineer all the time!!

If someone would call a pizza place in reality saying they wanted 11 equal pieces, they would have answered that at most they could have the pizza cut in some slices! :D HA!

I suppose it is also important to find out why are you burning out? Is it the amount of work? Is it something your co-founders do or something that didn't turn out as expected?

I suppose there are several reasons why someone can burn out, and as well as getting some rest to clean the mind it is also important to find out why that's happening. Otherwise it would happen again.

My first and best manager I had, once told me, that jobs are a bit like relationships, the more you try different ones the more you find out what you _don't_ like. I have found that to be a great piece of advise. So I guess my advise to you would be find out what it is not working for you. Talk to someone outside the whole situation that can have a clear picture of what's happening to you, either a therapist, an old pal or just a family members I guess would be able to help you.

I hope this helps :) I have been there and I was miserable for family and friends.. but having them close to me was a huge help to get back to my old self once again :)

S

OpenStreetMap is an interesting project in crowdsourcing geographical information.

I am really curios and heager to find out what would happen if more companies will start sharing their efforts with OpenStreetMap.

I would love to see the project getting some efforts and recognition from a larger community :) .. Who know what can start out of this..

Sorry gamechangr, I think I might have got some links wrong.. This was the program: http://www.seedcamp.com/ :) it is the biggest one in europe at the moment of speaking even though I particularly like the hackfwd philosphy :). If you look at their videos you will get what I mean :)

At Startupbootcamp istead they define themselves as a mentorship based program: http://www.startupbootcamp.org/details/

S

Hey gamechangr,

here is the list of the just the most famous:

www.startupbootcamp.org www.seedcamp.org www.hackfwd.com www.springboard.com www.theopenfund.com

There is a lot going on in the tech community at the moment in Europe, even though we do not tend to concentrate all that is happening in a few places.

Just to name a few these are all european brewed products:

soundcloud.com soup.io 46elks.com circleme.com newscurve.com blossom.io blog.weavly.com newsgrape.com pocketgui.de txtr.com spreadshirt.net

I am sure you have lots in the states that we don't get to know of too.

I think with all that has been going on historically we tend not to found companies but to do other stuff for fun :)

S

I spent 5 years at Googs. Good food in the office is great. It's way better having healthy food than just sushi or pizza delivery all the times.

Also giving your people time to spend alone and step out for lunch or just a walk is great too and I missed that often. You don't just "produce" by sitting at your desk and staring at the screen.

Also making people feel kind of obliged to attend social event on a weekly basis or even more often, isn't that fun. People have their life and family back home and I am sure some of them would like to eat dinner with their loved ones or just hang out with friends.

Time out and alone is as valuable as team spirit I believe...

So is sleeping and relaxing...

S

I think I need to clarify my statement here.. By saying "open EU market a bit too" I meant that I think it is beneficial for European startups and entrepreneurs wannabe if they know they can easily apply for programs like ycombinator and bring their knowledge and product back to the mother land once the program is over. Of course there are a lot of programs that deserve consideration in Europe too, but I am sure everyone likes to have the full choice available instead of picking something just because it's closer to where I live or I want to. As a consequence.. This would also open up YC to a lot of bright ideas to other countries in the world.. Thanks for answering guys :)