cbrinker

Should be half the time.

If you read anything like your application I think I know why you're rejected by life.

REJECTED! KILLS SELF

Naw it's coo-. I was kind of hoping I would get rejected since I've had second thoughts about someone owning 5% of my idea since I applied a few months back.

Hope the lucky winners blow apart the interwebz 2.5 with some crazy new productive ideas.

Is it just me or do a lot of these points contradict themselves right after being said?

-Being driven and lazy at the same time.

-Extreme optimism

-Extreme pessimism

-Being good at math

-Having good communications skills

Looks like my Wednesday prediction was spot-on. We'll see just how low we can go tomorrow.

This isn't a bottom and a reversal, this is a bear rally. Tomorrow the fed will be dropping interest rates 0.5% and we may see a slight rise or stagnation. Thursday the government will be releasing some quarterly reports, which will probably show just how bad things are getting and the market will eat crap again (-4/500).

Prepare to hit the 7000's in the coming weeks as no one buys squat for xmas. Sorry little Timmy, due to fiscal irresponsibility there's no Christmas this year.

Everyone copies everyone else, if no one copied anyone else we would have 1 operating system, 1 car to drive, and 1 type of dessert cake to eat.

Anyway, I'm interested to see where Microsoft takes this product. I hope Ozzie (SP?) is helping move Microsoft in a new, better direction. Science knows since after the 2003 suites they've been making worse crap than usual.

I think you should ask the question, "Hey, should I know where my money is and will I get sued?"

If those two points are relatively important to you, I would imagine spending a little time understanding them.

1. You should at least know the basics, how accounts work and how to balance the books. Quarterly and fiscal reports are good to know so you can tell where your business is at. Wikipedia.

2. You will probably need to know about contract and IP law most in the tech business world these days. Wikipedia.

3. Yes, I use quickbooks. It's so easy to use that it has somewhat dumbed down my understanding of accounting that I formally studied last year. Learn accounting first.

Law is a huge deal. Maybe start off at Jurisprudence? :] I have formally and vocationally studied many topics of law (I hope I don't switch from IT/Coder to lawyer >.<) and it's a relatively abstract and complex subject. Basically, learn the basics about contract and IP law, then just work in good faith. The courts like people and businesses that work in good faith.

You can integrate your system with Quickbooks. They have an API. I don't know if you want to deal with their software, though.

I just registered 1300 domains beginning with "ass."

Or just work for yourself? I guess that kind of requires the whole knowing what's best for you mentality as well, though.

Psh, haters.

(Woot, BMW!) :D

I'm not the one going around claiming to have done certain things that are rather ridiculous to believe without seeing a legit degree and a student record. Forgive my skepticism.

There are a lot of snake-oil salesmen out there that are going to sucker you in with their smooth words. Hey, if he writes about things and it helps you, that's great. Still doesn't convince me he graduated with 2 degrees in 3 semesters. It does convince me he knows how to make some money, though.

Even if you had nothing better to do in your life at that time, taking on 30-40 units is beyond a full time job. You'd litterally be looking at something like 60-80 hours of work a week. That's unreasonable by any standard. It's just like some other articles posted on here saying, working super long hours and little sleep isn't something that is productive or something worth bragging about.

Also, after reading through some of his articles he doesn't sound like a very logical person. I won't argue with results, but some things said on their don't exactly vibe with reason imo.

Never heard of the guy before. I checked out his bio on Wikipedia and it says this:

"After being arrested for grand theft in Sacramento, CA and given 60 hours of community service, Steve claims that this was the impetus he needed to turn his life around. He claims to have earned two college degrees in three semesters from California State University, Northridge - he says that he partly achieved this by attending a college that was generous in awarding advanced placement credits for courses he had taken in high school, thus reducing his required course."

The citation links to his article where he claims he did 30-40 units per semester and no summer school. I don't know, that sounds pretty ridiculous to me. Very hard for me to believe he earned 2 degrees in 3 semester on technical subjets of mathematics and comp sci.