One of the points mentioned often by @sama is that founders give up too quickly. What advice did you get from your YC Partner on this conundrum of being cockroaches versus shutting down?
From the outside, it seems like the founder saw a bigger opportunity and decided to move on.
So, the primary motivation isn't shutting down this startup. The primary motivation is moving on to the next startup which they believe is a bigger opportunity.
Not too awesome for current employees: hope they are getting taken care of.
Inspired by Peter Norvig's 'How to write a Lisp Interpreter in Python', I created three variants of it along the same lines as the OP. The first is a Simple Lisp Interpreter in Javascript [1]. The second separates Syntactic Analysis from Execution [2]. And the third supports non deterministic computing [3].
'Reliving experiences' is part of the Exposure Therapy that is used to treat PTSD. I remember watching on NOVA or some science program how virtual reality was being used to treat veterans suffering from PTSD. By reliving a dangerous situation in the VR world, they are able to 'recompile' the program in a safer context than it actually happened.
Completely agree. Remember, PG and team wrote Viaweb in Lisp because that is what they were comfortable with. They got acruired by Yahoo because they had the users and the best product in the market. The fact that it was built in Lisp did not deter Yahoo at all.
Stackoverflow is built on .Net and nobody is questioning that now.
It could turn out to be an advantage that the others keep writing you off as 'destined to doom' because you are on the .Net platform.
1.Find the most accomplished professors in your department and take courses offered by them. Even though your school may not have a big reputation, some professors may have enough clout to recommend you when applying to Google/FB etc.
2.Keep doing Deliberate Practice. Take the hardest courses. Work on your own projects. Contribute to open source projects.
