Just the once, though, huh?

1. Open up Microsoft word.

2. Type all that out.

3. Save it as "Resume.doc"

4. Don't open it again until your next job search.

I have a friend who (years ago) told me "Damn you're lucky! You have a horseshoe stuck up your [butt]. But you seem to work really hard for it..."

I never forgot that, and in the intervening years I've attributed the majority of my success to luck, rather than skill. Luck, however, that I work hard to create.

The reason is this: If you believe that your success is due to your own skill, you become lax. Complacent. Entitled. You've succeeded so far, so clearly you're da man and you should succeed going forward.

If, on the other hand, you ascribe it to luck, you acknowledge that there's little that you did to make it work. And so you have to keep working hard and scrambling to make the next project successful. Because your previous successes have little bearing on future performance.

I wouldn't object to a form on news.yc that would send a message via email without revealing the recipient's email address, in case people don't want to put their email address in their profile.

If by "average outcome" you mean "expected value of the utility function", and assuming that my utility-of-money function is sqrt($), I don't need to improve my "average outcome" by more than 6.4% for the deal to be worth accepting; it's enough if I can increase my "average outcome" by 3.2%, since that's how much UTILITY giving up 6% of the MONEY costs me.

I can tell you from experience that if you have the right co-founder, 50/50 is no problem. If there is a disagreement, however minor, you talk it out until one person convinces the other. This pretty much never happened in my case, by the way.

Let's put it this way: How arrogant you are perceived as can be measured by how many times you say "I".

In any case, finance really doesn't interest me. I routinely tell Wall Street headhunters to stop bothering me because I would rather create something impressive than own something impressive. I'm not in this for the money.

http://www.foundrygroup.com/team.php

What a slimy move. It won't make any difference in the long run though.

Very well said.

Remember, whatever disappointments you have, don't come off sounding like this guy (someone who did well in school, but couldn't get hired at the firm he wanted): http://www.autoadmit.com/thread.php?thread_id=445136&mc=...