Seems to me that all you need was some validation. And you got it. Well done. Doubling your salary will not double your happiness. Don't move for money or prestige. Move because it aligns with your longer term goals.

Although I am no expert, my wife and kids moved to Paris, France not more than 1 year ago and now we may be on the verge of moving back to the US. As you can imagine, it's no picnic moving with a family. (And the stay in Paris was/is aligned with my longer term goals.)

That's an interesting point (re: doing something specific) which applies not just to college students. The truth is once you have clarity and vision, what ever it is you are doing seems like poor usage of your time. Having said, it's not easy arrive at that kind of clarity or vision.

One can argue that there is no clarity of vision involved. Rather, for every individual like Gates who gets lucky with a good business opportunity, there may be many equally qualified individuals who do not get a lucky break with a good idea.

It is always assumed that success and failure in business corresponds directly to skill. I doubt this assumption and suspect luck has a lot to do with it. Once you get your first success earning you several million, many doors open to you.

This is an interesting point on knowing your audience. In this case, the audience was small but influential.

There is no substitute for just doing it. This is true for so many different types of endeavors!

Has anyone one found a solution for older Macs not running on Intel? I've been successfully with a firewire external HD but not a USB key. (The machine could still be useful with a USB.)

Definitely agree with you. I would add that choice is quite often made by the technology leadership which of course is a corollary to the technology choices already made. One last point, I will make is that cost factors in at some point. The interesting thing about cost, though, is it is often seen through two different prisms: upfront cost (which may may Macs more expensive) and total cost of ownership (which may be the Windows PC.)

As the hispter answered the straight-faced young mid-western in my office, "What's a hipster?"

Would this matter that much if a person didn't share much on Facebook? After all, Facebook does not force anyone to share intimate details of one's life. On the other hand, constantly updating or changing the privacy controls and policy ensures that the majority of people don't keep up with it. No one likes to read the terms and conditions of any site.

Part of what Facebook has done has continually push what we're willing to share online, I think. And really, the entire Internet has changed what we're willing to share online, not just Facebook. As we're able to do more and more online, we need to provide more and more information online. It's just whether or not that information remains under our control that's really the big question, I think.

Customer development is very much like the screening of a unreleased movie. A studio will get a nearly finished product in front of movie-goers before releasing it using that feedback to tighten plot points, editing, etc. The difference with a web-based product and a movie is that continually feedback loop never ends for the web-based product.