Huh? mandatory installation of Excel?
EDIT: Just to be clear I'm not trying to troll or be difficult. It's a grid with some cells that does some math. I just figured _anything_ would work.
You typically have to start worrying about using specifically MS products when compatibility becomes an issue. This is usually more true for Word than Excel, though, by a long shot (I have deep, painful experience with this)
I recognize that most startups aren't going for the full MS package (esp. Sharepoint), but I look at these tools as a suite that grows in power as you need it. With the Ribbon, you get great discoverability of these advanced functions as your needs arise.
I'm on kubuntu, I could run it in a VM though it's much simpler to open google docs in a new chrome tab and more than enough for my needs, so why bother? It's not the right tool for the job if google docs gets the job done for me with much less hassle.
I'm not an MBA number-cruncher type, but all the product managers at my (otherwise Mac-heavy) company insist on running Excel through a VM or a Boot Camp installation because the Mac version of Excel doesn't offer a lot of the functionality that they rely on in the Windows version.
There's more than enough hassles involved with running a company - doing compatibility work for office software shouldn't be one of them - just use what is the industry standard.
I’ve experienced PG’s reality distortion field,
and his no-nonsense style of communication.
By reality distortion, PG has an amazing ability to sell you on a vision. It's often times because he has spend a lot of time thinking about a problem or a solution, and there's no real way to argue back in real-time.
I get the reality-distortion field from Jobs thing, but that was much more specific to his personality. He didn't care whether or not things were possible, he just told people to figure them out.
I'm sure that overlaps with vision casting in some sense, but I would hate to see the word "reality distortion field" pop up all over the place and start being a SV buzzword when people are really just referring to leadership.
Doing Y Combinator a second time
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