RealGeek

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   by RealGeek 13y ago

   Giving up 50% to an accelerator will destory your company. It will make your company un-fundable for any Angel or Series A investment. Series A investors typically want 30% to 35% of your company. If you have already given 50% to an acceler
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   by RealGeek 13y ago

   > I feel VERY uncomfortable about not being the [insert respectable job title at respectable company here], and now am a pre-funded entrepreneur. > TLDR: being a pre-funded entrepreneur SUCKS in a lot of ways, but I’m pretty sure i
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   Google Trolls Itself in Attempt to End Website Scraping(mashable.com)

   2 points by RealGeek 13y ago|0 comments
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   by RealGeek 13y ago

   1) My uncle lives in a suburb in New York. He was paying $900 per month to rent a small 2 bedroom apartment. He bought a 3 bedroom house for $130,000; it is much bigger, nicer and monthly payment (including taxes and insurance) is less than
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   by RealGeek 13y ago

   I recently moved to US (from India) and I was shocked to see how the "free market" economy is structured to bankrupt the middle class and poor. Indians have far less income than Americans but are somehow able to save more. Here ar
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   by RealGeek 13y ago

   I would say he was doing quite well for 22 years old. Many 22 years old have $150k in college debt, he had $150k savings.
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   by RealGeek 13y ago

   It is depressing that how US healthcare system is structured to bankrupt middle class people so healthcare companies can make more billions. Can any of these things work for you? 1) Can your mother get medicaid? I believe there is almost no
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   by RealGeek 13y ago

   Browse through the listings to get an idea of what is selling. http://codecanyon.net/page/top_sellers They have quality standards that you must meet to get approved. Browse through http://support.envato.com&
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   by RealGeek 13y ago

   If your salary is $5,000; you get about $3,000 to $3,500 in pocket after taxes, health insurance, social security and other deductions. I live quite far from NYC in White Plains, rent for 1 bedroom apartment here is $2400. PS. I am sure the
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    I was in your shoes 10 years ago. Even worse, I was in Ludhiana (Punjab) where I couldn't even find another web developer. Getting out of such nightmare in India is a lot easier India than developed countries. You just need to make mor
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    Rent for a studio apartment in his city is around $200, it is $300 to $500 in bigger cities like Delhi and Mumbai.
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    In case you missed it, you can watch it at http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=0rVpAKziQJA
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    Most of the SEO consultants are selling nicely packaged snake oil. Many get links by blog comments, forum and directory spamming. But, there are few good consultants as well and they use several creative and hard ways to build links. Follo
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    There are a lot of windows application bundling malacious chrome extensions, Firefox and IE plugins with the windows installer. They are installed automatically with explicit permissions from users. Moreover, if you remove the adware from c
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    Smartphones and other electronics are more expensive in India, almost twice of US prices.
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    Could you post few screenshots of the admin panel? A functional demo of admin panel would be even better.
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    It's the norm. Most startups offer market salary + stock options. Most of my friends who took significant salary cut for stock options got burned. I have no idea how much salary and equity is being offered to you, but here is an exampl
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    I was disappointed by Put.io in the past, it over promised and under delivered. It seemed like an unstable app with very slow speeds. It looks like they have improved since I last used it, I will give it another try. I use http:/&#x2F
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    I use MacBook Air, it's light form factor and long battery life is perfect for long commutes. Best thing about MacBook is great resell value, you can use it for 1 year and sell it for 80% value and 60% after 2 years.
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    If you are an employee, don't give up your salary for stock options. Stock options should be bonus in addition to your salary. Pick either Co-founder with less/no salary + equity or employee with full salary + stock options.
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    What type of hosting infrastructure works best for crawling?
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    Those outsourcing firms usually pay between $300 to $1,000 to developers. They usually hire bad programmers who do not understand fundamentals and write spaghetti code from an ancient era. This salary isn't attractive to good programme
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    The complaints you hear about Indian developers are for the $500/month developers. The developers you can hire in India for $1,000 to $2,000 are competent and comparable with $120k to $150k US developers. These developers work with the
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    Why isn't Uber liable? Let's say I am a developer working at FooCorp and my employer provides an insurance for any accidents caused during work. Now while I was having my lunch, there was a fire in kitchen that killed 2 employees.
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    If I was under a sort of employment contract with Google and using a Google's device and app as a part of Google Street View project, they should be liable for the accidents.
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    Now it looks gorgeous :)
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    > 3) The news reports - "at green light". Does that mean, even the driver was not at fault? The driver was turning right, that means the pedestrians light was also 'Go'. Moreover, the driver must yield pedestrians acc
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    It looks like 'mobile first design gone too far'. This is how the website looks like on 1920 x 1200 monitor. http://i.imgur.com/asP7Fdx.png Browser: Chrome OS: Windows 8.1
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    I am original from India (now in New York), and I have hired over 40 developers, designers and marketers in New Delhi over the past few years. You can hire good developers in India for $1,000 to $2,000 per month. It is viable to hire team i
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    by RealGeek 13y ago

    These companies were bootstrapped for the first few years and were profitable with 7 to 8 figures revenue. The eventually raised money at growth stage, and the founders were able to take some money off the table without selling the company.