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you plan to come back to pk or stay onwards?

• amingilani 11y ago
  probably 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 ago
    The whole world is full of founders. Being in the SV area is the rare advantage, not the other way around.
    • amingilani 11y ago
      I'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 ago
        That'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.