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by ajiang 9y ago
Showing real leadership is hard, harder than worrying about the news cycle. Real leadership is not about flash, not about showing dominance, and definitely not about looking the part publicly. Who knows what he needs to work on in his first
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by ajiang 9y ago
The amount of comments on this article that are emotion and fear-based, rather than fact and experience-based is surprising for HN.
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by ajiang 9y ago
But with 4x the population...
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by ajiang 9y ago
If you're comparing his returns with your own, take into consideration risk-adjusted returns. Traders try to avoid massive downside risk, and the best ones structure trades where they stand to lose very little in most outcomes.
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Swiggy, a House of Cards(swiggysales.tumblr.com)
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by ajiang 9y ago
I had the most surreal experience in the Shenzhen airport the other day. I was out of cash, with only my credit cards and Android pay. There was no place in the entire airport that I could pay with Visa or Mastercard - the first time I felt
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by ajiang 9y ago
Announcing bad news as a founder is pretty heartbreaking. The less discussion about it the better, I would imagine.
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by ajiang 9y ago
It's ok to think of Sprig as a restaurant that delivers. The most profitable restaurant chains in the world make $2-3M per store, with repeatable success in new stores (with obvious much better than 0-15% returns). You're finding
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by ajiang 10y ago
What was your mailing list size before the campaign?
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by ajiang 10y ago
Andromium | San Francisco, CA | ONSITE or REMOTE | https://www.getsuperbook.com Our company is building the Andromium platform, which makes Android function as a familiar desktop OS by just downloading an app. Our goal is to pow
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by ajiang 10y ago
Yea we see developer work as a key use case for the Superbook. We have a decent desktop browser in the Superbook, but it's going to take some work to integrate a full dev environment. Something that we're keen on doing.
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by ajiang 10y ago
Much more afraid of Google here. Or correction - much more afraid of us delivering such a bad experience software wise that no one will use it, meaning no developers will care to build software for it, meaning no one will care. And after th
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by ajiang 10y ago
Btw, if you're reading this and you are an Android dev interested in working on a really challenging technical problem (and not 'just an app'), reach out - we're looking to hire employees #1-3.
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by ajiang 10y ago
Haha I sense no underlying tone here at all. Yea we're going to try. I mean honest to god we're like any other SF startup. If we don't deliver, we're screwed.
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by ajiang 10y ago
Oh interesting, looking into WINE some more.
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by ajiang 10y ago
Hardware locking is an option, but to be perfectly honest, we can be a lot more creative than that: - Freemium tier pricing - Software licensing for enterprise (security features) - 'Preloading' apps - Direct app integration into
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by ajiang 10y ago
Oh man, passed out (it's like 5 AM here in Shanghai). Great question. The hardware for the Superbook isn't hard, to be perfectly honest. We actually fully expect that we'll have copy cats, and there is absolutely nothing we c
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by ajiang 10y ago
Hijacking my own comment to say that it's 1 AM in Shanghai. This has been awesome. I'm taking a nap! Will be back on in a couple hours to answer any remaining questions. Thanks HN.
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by ajiang 10y ago
I'm a big fan of this idea. We have a lot of active Andromium users in India. We are really liking the idea of going to market after Kickstarter to India.
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by ajiang 10y ago
Yea totally. I'm actually on board with this. If you're trying to turn a tablet or laptop into an Android laptop, use Remix. We aren't trying to do that - we believe that device convergence (a world where they only computer y
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by ajiang 10y ago
We had some great mentors who provided guidance from their on Kickstarter experience :) We did the work ourselves. Except for the video. That was all Glass and Marker
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by ajiang 10y ago
The basic premise here that crowdfunders are investors is wrong. They're idea backers - people that are willing to donate money to see great ideas come to life. Kickstarter says this themselves, and it's a little strange to make t
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by ajiang 10y ago
Thanks Matt. Totally get it. I think because Kickstarter starts feeling like a store, its easy to forget the situation of the campaigners: super early on, having invested their own funds to come up with a prototype that they're now cro
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by ajiang 10y ago
4 series :)
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by ajiang 10y ago
Please don't worry about it! We intend on having it up for pre-sale + online purchase.
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by ajiang 10y ago
Yep - that's exactly right. We could at some point, but our goal isn't to support windows. Our belief is that device convergence will happen and Android phones will lead the way. We don't have a headphone jack! Sorry if there
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by ajiang 10y ago
YES! And also more apps that have tablet mode either built in or capable of being included.
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by ajiang 10y ago
Everything we did that mattered, I actually detailed out in a piece for Startup Grind: https://www.startupgrind.com/blog/how-we-blew-past-our-crowd...
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by ajiang 10y ago
Totally - I think we'll do this if we can, but there are some certification challenges w/Type C if you ONLY use it as a charging port. At least that's what we've heard - would welcome anyone who'd know more about th
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by ajiang 10y ago
It is really cool, but for our vision, it is just a neat feature. We want to empower device convergence, so that Android smartphone can be leveraged as laptops for learning and productivity use :)

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