The Pentagons really drove home what it is like to have this. It must be so hard...

You've got to give them credit though, it's pretty ambitious (and very useful for some cases).

Regardless of GDPR, this is good in the short term. Organizations can comply with regulations (and ostensibly reduce market failures) or not comply and lose market share. If all regulations fell into the former camp we haven't tried enough strict regulations.

More generally I think a big problem with compliance is

1) Current business model practices. We don't know how all the ways to make money on the Internet because it hasn't been around that long so we just sell data/ads.

2) Technical limitations. The Internet is organized around centralized systems but this doesn't have to be the case. It's just hard to build a comparable decentralized system easily with the current tools.

I agree with this, and hope that it will cause innovation on both points. I know there are a lot of regulation-phobes on here, but good regulation is a driver of (good) innovation, as opposed to further innovation in fields like spying on customers and exfiltrating as much data on them as possible.

Innovation will always be made, and I feel that currently, many great minds are being utilised to make people click on ads. Hopefully this is a step towards changing that.

I am a single founder Atlas company with an app that I've been working on for a while now. I'm sitting in Starbucks waiting for Apple to open so I can charge my phone and go to a nearby college campus to get my first users. I don't know anyone here so this is a tall task. I'm going to collect AT LEAST 100 "no's" today. Wish me luck

Where are you located? What's your app? It's not shameless self promotion unless you're shameless about it! :-D

Wear those nos with pride ")

Everything you're good at they shouldn't be and everything they're good at you shouldn't be.

Startups are an exercise in risk mitigation and cofounders mitigate your intrinsic/personal risk. (Every human has flaws.)

VCs and angels often talk about team risk and how its better to have multiple (but not too many) founders. This is because every individual has flaws and founders offset each others. The team risk is the sum total of the founders intrinsic risk. To give yourself the best shot, find someone who will hold you while bombs are going off in the trenches but isn't totally like you. (Same reason why "diversity" is important)

That said culture is THE MOST IMPORTANT THING so you definitely have to be compatible.

Your wife is not like you, but you still love her. Find someone who is different but you can love through the hard times.