startups in pre-seed are like poor underfed people. micro VCs are like nice people who invite you for Saturday lunch, bath and change of clothes. They did not change your life but on Sunday you might look good enough to raise from a bigger VC.

BOINC should work more on the personal reward in order to get more participants. for example

- include some crypto mining into their client

- be included in a free version of windows (microsoft will distribute lite version of windows in exchange for contributing your pc power)

- be a default "screensaver" in ubuntu

even better - http://www.jetbrains.com/idea/#community_edition

I paid $200 for the ultimate edition and couldn't be happier. Totally worth it.

autocomplete is good for google as it tends to limit the search terms people use. instead of expressing your search needs you pick from a predefined list. less terms used = better search caching and less SEO effects.