Networking & meetups are great, as mentioned. I am also seeing a lot of people on good tech mailing lists start to reach out as well for co-founders.

Groups like NY Tech Meetup (http://www.meetup.com/ny-tech/), SF New Tech (http://www.meetup.com/sfnewtech/), various regional founders groups on facebook are all places I've seen people connecting to talk about working together on startups.

I don't know how useful it is, but I've also heard mention of Founder Dating (and there are regional meetups for those as well): http://founderdating.com/ Good luck!

Another great suggestion, I am thoroughly impressed with the feedback. I had not heard of founderdating before, I will check it out too.

Trello (https://trello.com/) - task management

Statsd (https://npmjs.org/package/statsd) + Graphite (http://graphite.wikidot.com/) - monitoring & graphing

Kippt (http://kippt.com) - link and article saving/sharing

Zapier (https://zapier.com/) - like ifttt for business

Heroku's Hosted Postgres (http://postgres.heroku.com) - DB as a service

Also definitely agree with Intercom, Dropbox & New Relic, all great services.

We got rejected also. We're a designer & developer in Ireland, both early 30s (one American, one Irish). We've built a platform for designing/building magazines & newspapers once and publishing them everywhere (epub, .mobi, html, ipad, pdf, etc.)

It's called Woop.ie (Write Only Once, Publish It Everywhere), and we have a small number of customers at the moment. We just have a holding page here: http://woop.ie but our demo page was live and allowed magazine creation, issue building, previewing, etc. It got some visitors from yc. Unfortunately guess it wasn't enough this time around.

We'll keep working on it obviously. Considering applying to Brooklyn Beta summer camp, actually, anyone else?

Hey guys have you considered applying to the Knight News Challenge? http://newschallenge.tumblr.com/

No, but that sounds like a great fit, thanks! Have signed up so I know when the next round opens up for applications. Thanks, great pointer.

Sites like Scraperwiki work great with Python, PHP and Ruby. Take a look at their examples and see which ones make the most sense to you.

Thanks

The Big Web Show - http://5by5.tv/bigwebshow Founders Talk - http://5by5.tv/founderstalk

I used to listen to a lot of the TWIT / Leo Laporte ones but they have gotten really long & I don't have time for them anymore.

Segregation is definitely unsustainable, but I definitely agree that mentoring and support groups can make a huge difference.

I've often been the only woman on otherwise all-male teams before and it's never bothered me. But I always appreciated having strong role models who were respected, technical women and open to mentoring and supporting others.

For me the electronic versus paper thing comes down to what I bought the book for.

For a book that I just need to reference occasionally, epub is usually fine. For a book where I'm starting from scratch, learning new things and coming back to the same bits over and over again, I prefer a paper version that I can write in.

Sounds like a cool project though - good luck!

Depends what you want to do with it really. If you're planning on using Django or Python Image Library, start with 2.7.

If you're not using any dependencies or frameworks relying on older versions, start with 3.

Either way, as long as you work at it continuously, moving backwards or forwards won't throw you off too much.

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Web Developer for Digital Magazine Startup

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We're seeking: - Expertise in standards-based web development with HTML/CSS/JS - Ideal candidate would also have design skills - Interest in working with a very exciting company doing something no one else in the digital publishing industry is doing: making digital content look amazing everywhere

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I think the best point he makes is at the end: Ballmer is not a product strategist. He is in fact a fantastic salesperson, he closed amazing deals for Microsoft when I worked there.

But he has no business defining product strategy, creating or killing product lines or trying to imagine what the public will want or what's attractive to customers. That stuff should all be left to Bill Buxton.