Hi! I'm from Russia! :) And I also want to move to the Bay Area. Agree on visas problems! Let's try to solve these problems Together! Feel free to drop me an email: bloodcarter@gmail.com

I think, only fans will pay for music and go to concerts. The others will listen to music for free. I don't know anybody in Russia who pays for a music regularly. But I know a few fans who buy legal albums.

When people pay for music, they're paying for the convenience of the delivery, not for the music itself. For the average user, it's worth a dollar to avoid the relatively clunky wilderness of Limewire and BitTorrent.

Hmm...I'm afraid I don't understand why do you considering using P2P unconvenient. Cos here in Russia it is the most comfortable way to get music. Internet music market is only a few $millions for now. But even if it will grow, I doubt that people will drop P2P. Cos it easy as open StrongDC++ in your metropolian network, type an artist name and download all songs at the price $0,0004 per mb. Maybe I'm wrong and you have different situation in US. Just my 2 cents.

For non-techies, iTunes is a better deal than BitTorrent. There's no hunting for torrents, managing wonky downloads, dealing with slow clients, etc.

Maybe the popular peer-to-peer options in Russia are more mass-market than the ones in the US.

using p2p depends on what other people are sharing. I want to download some older, lesser-known artists: Damien Jurardo, Stavesacre, and the list is pretty slim. If you want something popular and recent like Linkin Park, no problem. But if your off the beaten path, it's kinda hard to find what you want

Agree. But it is too tight market, don't you think? Labels generally generate profit from popular and recent artists.

But they also have old stuff stored away in a warehouse somewhere. P2P's don't. At least not currently.

hmmm...I think all this tech stuff about sport is cool, but the most important thing in sports is sportsman's will. The one can drip thyself with dozens of sensors, ipods, etc. But if he don't have a passion....it's useless. Nevertheless, smart point for Nike.

The best PR is satisfied users. If you achieved product/market fit, then you don't need all these PR investments. I think.

Agree. It's like to travel from A to B. You can choose a train to get there in an 3 days or you can choose a plane to get there in 4 hours. YC's money are not critical for my team too, cos we're already building our app. But I can't overestimate YC's value.

Good luck. Make something people need.

The main reason to move to a startup hub is that you have much more chances to succeed if you burned all the briges after you.

hmm...that is interesting....

WOW! That's a great idea! Multi-charge batteries, light weight, opensource, reliability, low cost. I imagine a boy from Tanzania sitting with this laptop among the trees and creating something new, cool. Something US and EU people couldn't imagine.

And the wireless mesh connection feature is astonishing too!

I think we don't need just another social network. Do you know about identity crash problem (http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=identity+cras...)?

We need some bridge between websites and social networks. some kind of cross-site copy-paste technology.

I agree. There are must be some losses in translation, cos pictures are just approximations to the elements of thinking process. Pictures have some "cross-platform" features, but their expression power much lower than language's. Ex. consider that language 1 has expresson power x, pictures have expression power y (x > y). And language 2 has expression power z (x = z). Then we're trying to reduce x to y and then take it to z again.

Instead of this we must take x to w (w > x) and then reduce w to z. A human translator going exactly this way.