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Couldn't you invest money in the company and just join the company as an unpaid "employee"?
Is this illegal? or is it bad for the investor or founders?
Looking at the very basic model, an advertiser wants to pay $X to a publisher to place ads. Therefore, publisher should get $x - overhead cost. But instead most of the profits are going to the Big 3.
Therefore, we should have a non-profit system that provides a marketplace for transactions and only charge overhead costs.
Therefore, maximizing profits for the publishers and advertisers.
Since, there is a big community of developers in HN, you guys should lead the charge.
I'm in the other end of the spectrum, after graduating w/ BSEE I been working in "real world" for couple of years. I see many simple apps that would would greatly benefit users in my industry and many other "real world" ideas.
So, I been trying to learn programming to build these apps (simple commenting/ratings). I been learning PHP/MySQL (mostly from w3schools) but in 6 months I went from a beginner to low-intermediate. I simply gave up because it takes me weeks to write something, that an expert can in hours.
What should I do:
1) keep on learning and do it by myself (not very reasonable)?
2) Hire contractors? (how do i begin? how much to pay?)
3) Apply to YC? (how realistic is it, if i only bring ideas and real world experience)
4) Any of you guys want to partner up? (How would we breakup ownership?)