<html><head><meta http-equiv="Content-Type" content="text/html; charset=utf-8"></head><body style="word-wrap: break-word; -webkit-nbsp-mode: space; line-break: after-white-space;" class="">>><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Calibri, sans-serif; font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">pitch it to the computer science students, hope none of them undercut you</span><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">Spike, you may be unaware but many CS programs hardly teach practical programming. I’ve heard stories of professors complaining that their CS grad students could barely string code together. These graduates may know a thing or two about lambda calculus but just try getting them to build an app.</span></font></div><div class=""><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class="">Even startup Stanford is not immune: </span></font><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=4SiFgB1lGxw" class="">Stanford Computer Science is Broken - YouTube</a><font color="#000000" face="Calibri, sans-serif" class=""><span style="font-size: 14.666666984558105px;" class=""><br class=""></span></font><div><br class=""><blockquote type="cite" class=""><div class="">On Mar 16, 2023, at 9:25 AM, spike jones via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:</div><br class="Apple-interchange-newline"><div class=""><meta charset="UTF-8" class=""><div class="WordSection1" style="page: WordSection1; caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;"><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">On Tue, Mar 14, 2023 at 12:17 PM Gadersd via extropy-chat <<a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline;" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a>> wrote:<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><blockquote style="border-style: none none none solid; border-left-width: 1pt; border-left-color: rgb(204, 204, 204); padding: 0in 0in 0in 6pt; margin-left: 4.8pt; margin-right: 0in;" class="" type="cite"><div class=""><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">I have been wanting to form a software startup for a while now but have no idea regarding the process. What are some resources that I can use to learn about the funding, hiring, and management processes that a founder would need to go through?<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></blockquote><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div></div><div class=""><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Soeaking in Yoda: Your inner capitalist find you must.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">Gadersd, I can offer you my blessing and best wishes to you my son or daughter (you never specified.) I don’t know how the heck businesses start, but I will offer you this: I never copped an attitude toward the bean counters at the tech company where I cheerfully squandered my tragically wasted career. I don’t know how the heck they do what they do, they don’t know how I do what I do, we maintained mutual respect, everybody got along just fine.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">My guess would be visit the local university software professors, tell them what you have in mind, ask for a chance to make a powerpoint of the product you envision and sketch out a design, pitch it to the computer science students, hope none of them undercut you. You might be able to apply for a patent even without working code.<o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">To Adrian, Stuart and all you guys that do startups: you give tech geeks jobs so we don’t need to know all that money stuff. We never really need to take up adulting, we can stay geeky college kids our entire careers. If you get rich, you deserve the hell outta every dollar. <span class="Apple-converted-space"> </span><o:p class=""></o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class=""><o:p class=""> </o:p></div><div style="margin: 0in; font-size: 11pt; font-family: Calibri, sans-serif;" class="">spike<o:p class=""></o:p></div></div></div></div></div><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">_______________________________________________</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><span style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none; float: none; display: inline !important;" class="">extropy-chat mailing list</span><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="mailto:extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">extropy-chat@lists.extropy.org</a><br style="caret-color: rgb(0, 0, 0); font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px; text-decoration: none;" class=""><a href="http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat" style="color: blue; text-decoration: underline; font-family: Helvetica; font-size: 12px; font-style: normal; font-variant-caps: normal; font-weight: 400; letter-spacing: normal; orphans: auto; text-align: start; text-indent: 0px; text-transform: none; white-space: normal; widows: auto; word-spacing: 0px; -webkit-text-size-adjust: auto; -webkit-text-stroke-width: 0px;" class="">http://lists.extropy.org/mailman/listinfo.cgi/extropy-chat</a></div></blockquote></div><br class=""></div></body></html>