Ed, Great suggestions. Your point about making sure the effort is not wasted irrespective of win/lose is wonderful.
On Fri, Jun 13, 2008 at 4:56 PM, [EMAIL PROTECTED] <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > In another post I tried to show the image of the emotional > rollercoaster that you may have missed from ADC1. > > Some participants stated that they had quit their jobs. > Others neglected other members of their households. > etc. etc. > Many did not win. > I tried to include a little bitterness. > > The reason for that post was to get you to consider higher percentage > activites early in life. They talk about training a champion boxer to > have confidence with a series of sucessful bouts. Those are high > percentage activities. An engineering degree is a ticket to the > middle class for a person with no political connections - one place > where what you know is more important than who you know... > > Maybe Google will have regional competitions in the future that could > help establish a set of young developers that could work together to > do great things. I don't know. > > Consider trying to build some sort of gains that will stick even if > the entry does not win: the MIT folks got course credit for their > efforts and learned about working software in teams. > > You clearly care about you son. Try to structure it with a local > community college or school so win, or lose, he is guaranteed life > traction for his efforts. > > ed > > On Jun 12, 8:32 pm, Steve Oldmeadow <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > On Jun 12, 10:43 pm, august <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > > > Can you have an adult and a junior on the same team? > > > > In ADC1 if you entered as a team all team members had to enter into > > various contracts, especially if you got into the semi-finals: so you > > have the same issue as an individual. > > > > I would think a Business Entity is your best bet. You can set it up > > in your name and then employ your son. You would have to talk to an > > accountant about tax implications and what is the best structure for > > where you live. > > > > However, since the terms and conditions may be totally different for > > ADC2 (e.g. maybe they'll have a junior division) all this is just idle > > speculation. If your son is capable of developing an app that could > > win ADC2 then I say build it anyway. By the time ADC2 comes around > > there will be phones and a market. > > > -- take care, Muthu Ramadoss. http://cookingcapsules.com - nourish your droid. http://mobeegal.in - find stuff closer. --~--~---------~--~----~------------~-------~--~----~ You received this message because you are subscribed to the Google Groups "Android Discuss" group. To post to this group, send email to [email protected] To unsubscribe from this group, send email to [EMAIL PROTECTED] For more options, visit this group at http://groups.google.com/group/android-discuss?hl=en -~----------~----~----~----~------~----~------~--~---
