should i stay an extra year and 2 summers for CS minor?

Colleges and Universities A-Z University of California - Berkeley
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<p>BusyMei - maybe there’s actually something we can work on. </p>

<p>Earlier this year I was working on two startup ideas, one of which was submitted to Y-Combinator but failed due to insufficient brainpower (we have only one student technician on staff, who is a information management major - master’s student - at UW) </p>

<p>Later, I called my uncle (actually my mom’s cousin), who I suppose also got a CompSci PhD from UCB and works as a senior technology director at Qualcomm in SD, to ask for help. He’s a double E (EECS) guy.</p>

<p>I also called a friend, whom I knew since grade 1, for help. He’s currently a PhD candidate at UCB for computer science and just received a non-terminal masters degree in stats. He’s more in the field of algorithm research.</p>

<p>Our first idea is about the fractional ownership of e-books, featuring “locked” e-reading devices and significantly reduced per-copy prices (because the devices are locked, no two users can share the same device, therefore reducing the per-unit licencing fees). We anticipate to be able to lower the cost of per title by 70% and we’ll charge at the 50-60% level depending on plan (we plan to sell e-books on plans, just like mobile phones). </p>

<p>Our second idea is on iOS delivery of food. We plan to start near U Village in Seattle (near U Washington Seattle campus). My idea is to deliver hot meals or espresso drinks with electric tricycles. The idea is inspired by my own need, and the quasi-success of Instacarte, the grocery delivery business in SF Bay. </p>

<p>If you’re not too busy, maybe we can discuss these things a little further? I’ll PM you my email.</p>

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<p>I passed the 20-min editing limit for the prior post. but I want to add a little extra on the inspiration of my e-book selling device:</p>

<p>It was inspired by my own need to acquire large number of newly published titles at rock-bottom costs. I’m an avid reader who sometimes reads 2 books per day, spending $1000-2000 on books per months in varying fields. I believe that it is in the trend that e-book devices gravitate towards “service terminals”, or “business information terminals” akin to mobile Bloombergs /datastreams. </p>

<p>I have been a e-reader user since its inception in 2007 (first gen Kindle)…and have known amazon’s setup inside out. I’ve also been a Bloomberg / ThomsonOne user for some time.</p>

<p>Through email, I’ll explain in detail how to legally facilitate, the fractional ownership of e-titles, newsletters and scholarly sources - and what our chief competitors will be in the event that our e-reading service does get into the market. We’ve done some market research and performed a certain extent of SWOT analysis.</p>