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by abbasmehdi 13y ago
Agreed. Also, Google's weakness that a startup can exploit is their almost non-existent Customer Service. Google wants to scale massively from day one, so manual, 1-on-1 support can never be part of the plan (unless they go meta and cr
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by abbasmehdi 13y ago
Congrats Mehul and Navneet! Very happy to see such a positive outcome. Can't wait to see what you do with Google's firepower behind you.
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by abbasmehdi 13y ago
The technology is fantastic, love how good the videos come out. Really looking forward to what Instagram does with it. Congrats to the brothers.
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by abbasmehdi 13y ago
Yes, Clariso is still very much around. In fact, I introduced their product to an organization that is used by large hospital chains to outsource radiology reports to, these guys have tens of full-time, in-house radiologists looking at hund
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
You know, you're probably right. I was one of those FB users who ended up with a large number of connections on FB, and then it felt like a runaway train. I tried to adjust the privacy settings but they seemed to be designed to trip users u
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
You would think that for non-enterprise customers, they would charge more. You mean charge less? In my limited experience enterprise customers are less price sensitive and more "how do I not get fired for choosing this vendor over the sta
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
Couldn't agree more. When you are a startup founder you are often times inventing a new way of doing something. Often there are no pre-written rules, you make them up as you go along and you find yourself doing things previously thought to
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
I wonder what role an NDA played. Any ideas? I know in startup-land NDAs are non-existent, but in my past life as a product manager for a medium sized company, the biz dev guys would always have an NDA signed before letting the company get
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
Are there details about how others did etc.? Regards, Bitter UBC grad...
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
I feel your pain. It's hard to find the balance between saying what problem you're solving vs how you're solving it. This is what I suggest you do. It might cost you ~$50 or so. Go to a coffee shop like Starbucks and offer someone to buy th
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Sitting is the new smoking(theglobeandmail.com)
6 points by abbasmehdi 14y ago|0 comments
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Paul Buchheit: Misconceptions About Our Tattered Safety Net(nationofchange.org)
4 points by abbasmehdi 14y ago|0 comments
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
It's better to have a few people love you than lots of people kinda like you.
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
Though I've only talked to Justin a few times, he is one of my favorite people to get advice from. Between his five startups and entire adult life spent building them, he has not only seen most problems founders face, he has actually experi
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
Pathjoy seems to specialize in cleaning only. I really loved using them. The whole before, during, and after experience was seamless and great. The lady they sent over was extra sweet and stayed out of our way while she cleaned. She even le
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
Death is inevitable, these mistakes aren't.
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
I'd love to learn which government official and department is responsible for this action so we can direct our dislike of this decision towards them. P.S. The ML class Andrew Ng is teaching on Coursera is phenomenal by the way.
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
Countries with much broader safety nets for entrepreneurs are not producing the risky innovative companies that America is. This could also be a culture thing. When I was in Canada until 5.5 years ago the golden ticket was to work for a b
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
I think "people who just say "technology is destroying jobs"" should just be ignored, like their predecessors were when they decried plant robotics replacing assembly line workers. This is the circle of life, just like the newest wave of im
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
Just for quick and dirty calculations, not betting the farm on it. Thanks for the cautionary message though.
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
Thank god for this (coming from Excel)
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
cognitive health innovations?
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
For all those applying, this blog post was really helpful when we applied. We were in the W12 batch. http://www.giftrocket.com/yc-application-checklist
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
Royalty check, please! ;-)
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
Another happy customer here. What really surprised me about YM was they told me upfront how much a service would cost and while getting the service came the most pleasent surprise of all, the mechanic said I did not need front brakes, just
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
You're absolutely right. On a global scale Iran is isolated. My issue was how using the word "entrepreneurship" instead of "web entrepreneurship of global scale" mis-positions Iran as having no civilian economy. A friend's friend has made a
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
The title will mislead you into thinking that Iran is a communist (economically) country. I doubt that's the case because, though I am not Iranian and have never been to Iran, I have hundreds of Iranian friends whose families in Iran own bi
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
Then why aren't you a billionaire yet and why do you need Paul?
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
I think you might have not been down voted as much if you had written less sarcastically and with more practical solutions (versus ideological). The solutions you are offering are so general that by following this high-level point of view w
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by abbasmehdi 14y ago
I have once met Benioff (never have met MZ), and what really struck me as odd about him was how unfazed he was by occurrences that would really shake a regular person up and throw them in a spiral of self-doubt. He seemed to never lose an o

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