Incyoubator

Reflections by a college kid chasing his entrepreneurial dreams and warm fuzzy feelings. Growth for the future, the journey is now.

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Django Unchained

After a damn long time of not coding, midterms, more school work, then finals. We have decided to redo our codebase, revamp ourselves, our mission and apply to an incubator. This is startup bootcamp now that school's over. Yee hah!

In case you're wondering about the title of our post, it's because we're using Django and Python now for our website.

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Co-Founders: G-Chat's from last night

Casually chatted with members of a VC firm earlier. This is the founders' breakdown analysis afterwards... 

me:  lol we are "broke entrepreneurs"

 Sent at 11:39 PM on Monday

 [founder-name-witheld]:  lol

gotta get some cash from [vc-firm-name-withheld] you know

or the "top dogs"

 me:  ok turns out the guy who really liked me is "only" a principal

Sent at 11:57 PM on Monday

 me:  lol. "and then he wrote me a check on the spot..."

 Sent at 11:58 PM on Monday

 [founder-name-witheld]:  legends

 Sent at 11:59 PM on Monday

 me:  we will have a story like that some day

 Sent at 12:09 AM on Tuesday

 [founder-name-witheld]:  we'd be the ones writing the check

 Sent at 12:27 AM on Tuesday

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Statistics

Is much easier to read about (i.e. in Nate Silver's book) than doing a problem set for homework.

Working on crushing Bayes Rule ... and Probability Mass Functions... and Gambler's Ruin ... and ... and ...

Given that I am blogging about learning Statistics, what's the probability I will finish my homework before the deadline? Said every statistics student ever.

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Ship Captain's Diary: Day 2

So my roommates threw a big party for a friend this weekend in our suite. Guess some inebriated guest spilled lots of rum and coke on my desk or something, because now it's sticky even after I wiped it off several times. Here's a double haiku I dedicate to this situation:

Another Ode

Sticky rum and coke Spilled, residue on my desk I program away

At least no Sticky Keys no Shift for me I'm on Mac so not Windows

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Welcome to the startup bubble my friend.

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Ship Captain's Diary: Day 1

Wrote a post, but then Tumblr froze my Chrome, and I couldn't publish the post before the beach-wheel of death, so I had to take a screen shot of the text before I force quit the browser:

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Commit

As busy college students, we are fighting back against our schedules. To chase our vision is to be hungry, so we are building in 3 hour blocks of time into our schedule. This is when both of us will be solely working on startup related tasks. That's commitment. Enforce with discipline. [Cracks whip].

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Under the weather

College. Density of persons per sq ft: > 9000 Viruses in the air: > 9000 ppm How drained I feel right now: very very very

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Ode to Computer Science Majors

The air is humid Sticky glue on my elbow Typing on my comp

I am writing a Compiler oh yay oh yay I pray for no bugs

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Just leased a dirt-cheap VPS server for 6 months, to start deployment of our projects. I ran some tests above, it seems reasonably fast and reliable doesn't it?

#CrossOurFingers

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How my hand feels as my codebase nears 2000 lines of Javascript...

"A Lannister Pays His Debts?" If I keep at it like this, most of that debt will go toward carpal tunnel treatment...

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function FindWaldo( Debugging ){

    While( Debugging ) {

       FindWaldo( Debugging );

    }

}

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Furiously Debugging

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Buying a New Domain

So we are in the midst of considering a name change. This has made me realize the scariness that some of the best "available" domains out there are being held on squatter pages, like that of this company: http://www.archeodomains.com/

As if they expect something like this to go down:

Me: "Why yes I will buy one of your premium domains for $XX,000. Here's the dough, even though I don't believe in your crazy pricing."

Dream on (mostly to us broke entrepreneurs shopping for online real estate).

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Bootstrapping

Discussing server costs with my co-founders has brought to light our first expenses for moving our project forward. We are going to shoulder our financial expenses ourselves, splitting it three ways for the three of us, paying for our initial servers as we start requiring internet infrastructure. Pending the success of our project, we will most likely be looking at incorporation, and bring tech expenditure under the company as a business expenditure.

Hope the bandwidth costs don't get to us before profitability does. I hope we can even reach the point where we have to worry about bandwidth costs. No VC rocket ship for us ... at least for now.