nurall

I am on the lookout for a Mentor, I was wondering how you guys met your Mentor and how you connected? What is the secret sauce for a successful Mentor-Protege relationship according to you guys?

Yesterday our team had a lengthy discussion/debate on whether to let users navigate to new pages within an existing tab/window OR open new tabs/windows for external urls. We weren't able to come to a consensus. Hence this question!

The Social News feature we are building for the niche market contains external urls. And we also have other features in the pipeline, that may or may not have external urls. Hence the dilemma!

What do you guys think about this classic web usability problem?

Has YC sent out confirmations for startup school yet? I haven't received mine yet!

We are in the process of submitting our YC application and we do get the feeling that it might be a bit heavy. Any tips on how verbose the application can be or is it purely a case-by-case thingy?

We are employing a bottom-up approach to build our rails app. We also do know of a bunch of open-source rails based cms solutions available. But how do you decide what is best for you? Can you comment on the trade-offs?