Tuesday 17 May 2011

joshua's comment on topic 2

This article is about Cyrus Pishevar, a 13-year-old resident of Palo Alto, California and how he created a facebook application dubbed 'high school memories'. Cyrus Pishevar, a 13-year-old resident of Palo Alto, California, developed High School Memories after seeing how popular it was for his friends to "tag" photos of one another on the social network.
However the thought of young people dropping school to go pursue software engineering gigs has negative views. Drawing criticism  for encouraging students to drop out, in the same way that a dream of playing in the National Basketball Association might prevent some kids from staying in school. Pursuing entrepreneurship shouldn't come before an education, said Vivek Wadhwa, a visiting scholar at the School of Information at the University of California, Berkeley."These are Silicon Valley's child soldiers," he said. "The vast majority of them will fail miserably. Then they've screwed up their careers."
In cyrus's case his journey began by sitting in his father's board meetings. following which having the chance to meet Mark zuckerburg where he started developing his ideas. 
Now cyrus is still developing softwares,Living in Silicon Valley means kids have easy access to programming help. With High School Memories, Cyrus got assistance from Ryan Romanchuk, a 25-year-old engineer and family friend who works at a nearby startup. His father, meanwhile, is contributing $5,000 to $10,000 to the project, mostly to pay for advertising.
I would like to say that choosing the mark zuckerburg way  of success can be rewarding as well as dangerous. i would discourage anyone dropping school to go to developing things like cyrus. On the other hand i am glad to see that there is a rise of entrepreneurs such increases leads to a world with a better future. However like i said earlier first things first get a degree. Joshua tong 112593F

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