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Goodbye Boost VC – Thank you Tribe 7
- fwddbhatti 11y agoand? i think this is incomplete.
- amingilani 11y agoHow so?
- fwddbhatti 11y agoIts just a line, you should share your experiences and tell us how difficult it was to get to silicon valley from PK.
- amingilani 11y agoBut it isn't difficult. And there's no magical path. Where there's a will there's a way.
- fwddbhatti 11y agoWhat was the way ?
- fwddbhatti 11y agoyou plan to come back to pk or stay onwards?
- amingilani 11y agoprobably returning, since the burn rate is much lower there. That's an advantage I have over other founders. Advantages are meant to be exploited.
- solve 11y agoThe whole world is full of founders. Being in the SV area is the rare advantage, not the other way around.
- amingilani 11y agoI'm sure. Don't get me wrong, it's very very helpful. However, most of the startup life is keeping your head down and working. I can fly to SV at any point, but setting up a team in Pakistan + office space + utilities is only a fraction of 1 programmer being paid in SV. At such an early stage, survival is all we're focused on. The moment we can afford SV, we'll jump right on over!
- njloof 11y agoThat's awesome. I hear a lot here in Canada (as a foreigner here) about the efforts they made decades ago to build an educated workforce for the information economy and a local tech industry. It did great things here and I have to imagine it's great for Pakistan. There are strong engineers and digital artists coming from Pakistan, and in the long term they should be able to stay and have a great career at home.
- asadlionpk 11y agoThanks for sharing you experience at boost. Little nitpick: you might have swapped the ping labels (Pak vs boost).
- amingilani 11y agoFixed! Thank you!
- martin_ 11y agoAre you sure? They still seem backwards
- amingilani 11y agoI may have forgotten to hit the save button. Updated.... again. Thanks!
- stevesun21 11y agoGood to read!
- 8611m 11y ago1. What is your product? 2. How's the quality of engineers in Pakistan as compared to SV?
- amingilani 11y ago1. Mailman - themailman.io - We're a priority messaging service. We're still in development, and while we have an MVP out, we're focused on product improvement right now and are holding off on marketing it. 2. SV engineers are better than most other regions of the world because SV attracts them. Are there engineers in Pakistan as good? Definitely. Are they as easy to find as in SV? No. Will our network make it easier to find them? Yes. Are they cheaper? By magnitudes.
- anewhnaccount 11y agoI didn't understand what it was until I went to this page https://themailman.io/register https://themailman.io/register - I would recommend you put the "Get Paid To Read Your Mail Charge senders to send you mail" on the front page. Without it I can't tell what's going on.
- amingilani 11y agoThank you, feedback always helps us make things better! The next iteration will do this! :) It's a major overhaul.
- AmadKamali 11y agoCongratulations. And Good Luck ! Always good to hear good stories about young Pakistanis.