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Thanks for the sound advice :)
Interesting, I totally agree with you. I considered my dad my Mentor too early on. But as one grows and our world view changes we probably start looking out for other people to look up to and learn from. Have you connected successfully with a Mentor after your dad?
Posted by
nurall on Thursday April 08, 2010 @02:42AM
from the ask-hn dept.
I am on the lookout for a Mentor, I was wondering how you guys met your Mentor and how you connected? What is the secret sauce for a successful Mentor-Protege relationship according to you guys?
Posted by
nurall on Friday December 04, 2009 @03:19PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Thanks for the idea, we have discussed this in the past and we needed more validation, this helps :)
We agree, it is a challenging problem to solve and we find that exciting. We will share our progress with HN...
It is totally up to the Mentor to decide on the level of engagement with a given Protege. The type of engagement is usually determined by the problem the Protege is trying to solve OR a plan/goal he is trying to validate. It could be one time or a periodic affair. The end justifies the means in a Mentor-Protege relationship. A long-lasting synergistic relationship is the ideal case scenario and we would love to enable that.
Nuron (sounds like Neuron) is our Mentor/Protege Communications Manager and Yes his name is derived from Nurall (sounds like Neural) :)
Posted by
nurall on Wednesday November 18, 2009 @11:04PM
from the ask-hn dept.
Posted by
nurall on Thursday April 16, 2009 @02:52PM
from the slate.com dept.
Posted by
nurall on Tuesday August 05, 2008 @03:55PM
from the guardian.co.uk dept.
Posted by
nurall on Thursday July 10, 2008 @07:42PM
from the wie.org dept.
I think the author is talking about business method software patents. If the business method implementation needs patentable technology to implement, then it may not be such a bad idea.
But again I feel that for an early stage company, filing a patent just helps mitigate the risks in the VC's head more than anything else. Forget about enforcing your patent. If you are successful and you have a lot of money and you feel like bullying your competition, we all know how some successful companies go about it.
Thomasnet is a free resource to find prototypers and design shops -
http://snurl.com/28w08 [www_thomasnet_com]
Social News is one of the features as I mentioned and for some users it might qualify as just a Social News site based on the way they adopt it but for others the Social News feature might be one of the features they will end up using. Our problem is how do we identify the least common denominator without having to do extensive A/B testing?
Posted by
nurall on Wednesday May 07, 2008 @03:02AM
from the self-post dept.
Yesterday our team had a lengthy discussion/debate on whether to let users navigate to new pages within an existing tab/window OR open new tabs/windows for external urls. We weren't able to come to a consensus. Hence this question!The Social News feature we are building for the niche market contains external urls. And we also have other features in the pipeline, that may or may not have...
I came across this old article about how successful people work just recently. And I started wondering if there was some gap between how these guys work and how you guys work your time?
My question is to you HNers: How do you guys work?
Thanks!
p.s: I am pretty a whole bunch of HNers will consider themselves fairly successful to answer this question.
Posted by
nurall on Thursday May 01, 2008 @05:10AM
from the ask-hn dept.
http://money.cnn.com/2006/03/02/news/newsmakers/howiwork_fortune_032006/index.htm
I came across this old article about how successful people work - http://snurl.com/26lrf. But I did start wondering if there was some gap between how these guys worked and how you work?My question to you is: How do you guys work?p.s: I am pretty sure there are a whole bunch of HNers who will consider themselves fairly successful to answer this question.
Posted by
nurall on Wednesday April 30, 2008 @06:54PM
from the paidcontent.org dept.
thx pg, sorry for jumping the gun
Posted by
nurall on Friday March 28, 2008 @12:34AM
from the self-post dept.
Has YC sent out confirmations for startup school yet? I haven't received mine yet!
i meant to say, earlier we find something we love the better, so that we could start realizing our abilities sooner.. :-)
I think this is a useful metric for evaluating a startup team, but I do think the metric is subjective!
I am sure a lot of us (not so fortunate ones) realize our best abilities while working on something we really love.
So the best bet would be to describe your abilities relative to the problem you are trying to solve. How are your abilities helping your startup make significant forward progress?
hmm.. interesting.. did PG mention it somewhere? thx for the heads up though :)
it actually depends on the question.. but a couple of 'em go upto 300 words..
Posted by
nurall on Monday October 01, 2007 @10:25PM
from the self-post dept.
We are in the process of submitting our YC application and we do get the feeling that it might be a bit heavy. Any tips on how verbose the application can be or is it purely a case-by-case thingy?