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I went to UNH for my undergraduate program followed by MIT for my masters and I totally agree that the middle ground between the theoretical approach and the implementation approach is the goal, however, I believe that BOTH need to be taught for the full experience.

As a working man now, I feel that the implementation approach is more beneficial for getting a job done, but as an entrepreneur I can say that the theory is what really gets you steps ahead of your competition.

ycombinator doing it big!

for those of you looking for a video:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=LLp7LXTSrfs

Agreed... if you know of an org that will let me feature them directly or have a contact I could use, that would be pretty sweet. None of the orgs I contacted will let me put their name/image on my site. They all just say "give us the money, but don't use any of our info"

Hey Dan,

The other 50% has been used for advertising and stuff... for tax reasons you can only donate up to 50% of your income and have it be tax deductible. This means that the max I could donate is 85% without going negative... but I have spent waaaaay more than the other 50% on marketing so far.

The cancer research charity so far has been the american cancer society... you are right that it's really only 50% of the affiliate fees but I think that's clearly shown in the cartoon? It's still about 5% of your total purchase which I think is pretty good for getting the same stuff you normally would at the same price.

I'll try to get the colors to match more...

Thanks for the dropshadow info... I'll check that out too.

I've contacted 150 non profit orgs to feature on my site with the promise that the profits would go to them, however everyone that has gotten back to me in the past month have all said that I need to be an established company for at least a year, for fear of losing their "brand image" if something went wrong. This makes sense to me but it kinda sucks... who wouldn't want free money?

Hey guys, OP here.

The money I have donated so far goes to the American Cancer Society but I'm not allowed to use their name on the site. They say that it would be considered "cause marketing" and that I would need to sign an agreement with them. To get this agreement my company has to be running for at least a year (I have since set one up because of this). The counter is a good idea that I'll get going tonight. Thanks!

lol ouch

Open to any suggestions... it's definitely still a work in progress but was done from "scratch".