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Ask HN: How many of you founders are girls ?
Well, I am one, about to quit my job tomorrow and planning to go full time on my iPhone development company (www.meraiphone.com). Just wondering what's the startup-girl-scene is like.
- jacquesm 17y agoI made a loosely related poll a while ago: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749617 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=749617
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoLove the landing page.
- geekbabe 17y agoThanks. There were several friends who helped in designing though, I am still learning.
- jgrahamc 17y agoGood luck! What does 'masala' mean in the context of an application?
- jayair 17y agoMera = mine => "my"iphone.com Masala = mixture of spices => cool spicy applications for the iphone? Its not quite "spicy" but hopefully you get the picture.
- raju 17y ago"Masala" is a Hindi work, which directly translated means "spice", like those that you would add when cooking. It can also refer to a mixture of various spices, with the mixture designed for a particular recipe in mind - like Tandoori Chicken masala. Here it's not one, but a mix of spices that make up the masala. In this case, I think it applies in the same vein as the spice in "Spice Girls" does. Another way to look at it to look at it a an interesting mix that add flavor to something. For example, a common phrase you hear a lot in Bollywood movies is "masala film" which essentially translates to a film with a little of everything - humor, romance, musical. In this regards, it would think it would be one or both of the above. Dunno if that helped you or not ;-)
- leif 17y ago"she who controls the masala"?
- zackham 17y agoclickable link http://www.meraiphone.com http://www.meraiphone.com
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- levirosol 17y agoI answered the question, it's not an opinion. My startup has no women founders. so why downvote?
- skermes 17y agoI suspect the lack of context in your reply made it sound like you were saying that there were zero women founders anywhere, rather than zero women founders in your company.
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- yan 17y agoThe question was phrased in the format of a poll, not a direct query to each individual company. Your comment added no value to either the OP nor the people reading the thread and was superfluous. This is, in my opinion, why you were down-voted.
- noonespecial 17y agoHow many of you founders are Girls ? You founders, not your founders.
- jeromec 17y agoThe founder of Oneforty Laura Fitton was an individual female founder. I particularly enjoyed that interview on Mixergy. http://mixergy.com/oneforty-laura-fitton/ http://mixergy.com/oneforty-laura-fitton/
- iamwil 17y agoCongrats on quitting your job!
- Towle_ 17y agoMaybe it's just me, but I'd be more concerned with kicking ass than how many other girls there are doing what you do.
- yummyfajitas 17y agoHey, don't give away the secret of the patriarchy!
- andrew1 17y agoMaybe she feels that having an understanding of the demographics of the industry she's working in (and possibly making contacts with whom she can discuss issues she imagines they will have experienced) will help her to kick ass.
- fleitz 17y agoEchoing a the grandparent post, I'd spend time worrying about the demographics of my customers, not the industry.
- smokey_the_bear 17y agoI dunno. I spend almost all of my social and work time with men. It's a side effect of what I do and what my hobbies are. But man is it fun sometimes to kick it with some other girls. I'm sure she has enough time to kick ass and also see what other girls are up to.
- geekbabe 17y agoYep. I have enough time now :)
- romland 17y agoCall me silly, but self-proclaimed hotness (your sig*) might work very well in WoW, but I imagine less so here. If I were you I'd change it. (sig: Hot + Geek = me)
- jgrahamc 17y agoAgree. If you are going to make a claim like that at least post a photo. Or preferably don't make that claim.
- freddier 17y agoWell, a simple search turns this out: http://tinyurl.com/yljrtuc http://tinyurl.com/yljrtuc So it's fair to say the signature may be correct.
- vijaydev 17y agohow did you get hold of that?
- jacquesm 17y agoCheck signature, do a whois, do a search on the persons name, take image of matching name from Facebook. Not that hard but pretty tasteless to post it. On HN you might as well wear your identity out front, most people here have graduated in the 'basic internet tool use', unless you make a real effort at staying incognito it is very hard to not drop little bits of information, the best way to stay anonymous is to be very quiet.
- gridspy 17y agoExactly. It is much better to just write things that you are proud of and then sign them with your real name.
- rewind 17y agoYeah, that was WAY more appropriate. I'm sure all the women around here (and hopefully most of the men) are just shaking their heads right now. Unbelievable.
- lutorm 17y agoIs that "mera iphone" as in Swedish "more iphone"?
- smokey_the_bear 17y agoI'm in a start up of three, I'm the only girl. None of my friends in other start ups are girls.
- seltzered 17y agojust curious, do you live in India? I wonder this because I'm curious how the process is in making iphone apps from there. Do you get the same profit as us developers from apple? Is it easier to make a living off of iphone development due to lower cost of living there?
- geekbabe 17y agoI guess the profit sharing is the same. I can live pretty comfortably @ 300$ per month. That would mean no savings, ofcourse. As of now, my apps aren't making that much. However, I have hardly put any effort yet. Most apps are naive, unpolished and non-internationalized. Now having quit my job, my first goal is to reach there.
- mbrubeck 17y agoMy friend Seema is CEO of a robotics/toy startup in Pittsburgh, which she co-founded with other students from her grad program at CMU: http://www.interbots.com/ http://www.interbots.com/
- saurabh 17y agoSeems like you are located in Mumbai! I am the cofounder of stareable.com based in Lamington Road. Very cool to see a Mumbaikar doing cool stuff like this. Would love to have a chat with you sometime.
- geekbabe 17y agoyes, definitely.
- JangoSteve 17y agoCongrats. I'm not a girl, but my co-founder for my startup was (I say "was" because I've since bought her out).
- pavs 17y agoYou guys got married?
- anitgram 17y agojust promise you wont resort to stripping when it does work out, k?
- angelhaze218 17y agothe start up girl scene is nonexistent, which is why it's awesome, it gives me the advantage ( and the confidence) to talk to any venture capitalist, and know am definitely making more of an impression than the next techie guy
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- fburnaby 17y agoWouldn't it make more sense if your tagline was "hot masala applications?"
- paraschopra 17y agoCongratulations, are you based out of India?
- geekbabe 17y agoyes, mumbai.
- silverlake 17y agoI thought chicks prefer to be called women.