ajju

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by ajju 18y ago
Wow. I have to report status 3 times a day! I want to quit as soon as I can, but I always thought this frquency was the norm not the exception.Are you saying majority of the big co bosses ask you for status less than 3 times a week?
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by ajju 18y ago
No, it's called a web browser. (I don't think HN publishes an updated PDF every time someone posts a comment)
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by ajju 18y ago
high paying start up founder jobs? snicker sigh sob
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by ajju 18y ago
How do you pitch the idea to the company? Do you usually know someone there beforehand or do you do a "cold call (or email)"?
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by ajju 18y ago
As against Pakistanis or Trinidadians who aren't? What's your proof?
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by ajju 18y ago
Your points are true for Indian programmers who work for outsourcing shops. Many don't. Google probably has 10K+ H1B engineers from India working for them (and not via an intermediary). There are thousands of H1B engineers from India with g
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by ajju 18y ago
What you are missing is that any H1B willing to work as a contractor by definition works for an intermediary. These intermediaries actually operate in a grey area of the H1B immigration law, take a percentage cut off the contractor's pay an
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by ajju 18y ago
Use vesting which will allow you to hire him now without writing over a significant chunk of equity to him before he has proven himself. In a scenario where two people are "equals" (more or less), vesting should usually be done for both. Ho
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by ajju 18y ago
I think for a startup weekend type event you have to define success as any company that follows through after the weekend and gets a non trivial amount of users. Profits, in general, take years and may not be the best way to define success
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by ajju 18y ago
Over the past year, it has been quite an experience to see the entrepreneurial community in Atlanta band together and do great things like ASW2, Startup Riot, Startup Gauntlet and ATL Show and Tell just to name a few. ATL is no Bay Area but
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by ajju 18y ago
What an awesome idea! This could be very useful to us.Kudos.
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by ajju 18y ago
I have been getting IM spam on gtalk to get me to sign up on heysan. It comes from my gtalk friends and leads to a google sign in but on heysan.com. It's the exact same message coming from multiple people so its definitely autogenerated. Th
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by ajju 18y ago
I know. Without even speculation on how they are related except some temporal correlation, I am inclined to discount this as idle fearmongering
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by ajju 18y ago
I don't think any of YC fundees really need YC funding. Most of their friends and families would be able to sponsor a summer's worth of living expenses. I think YC's true value lies in the community of cofounders, connections of PG and Co
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by ajju 18y ago
This is a very good point. Also, the mistakes you make at a big company tend to be very specialized to the product you are working on. When you start up on your own the range of mistakes you can make blows up by an order of magnitude. You s
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by ajju 18y ago
You don't need ruder friends, you need a partner or two who are equally enthusiastic, nay who are BANKING on that project succeeding. Hopefully they are banking on it because they are really passionate about the idea and really want to get
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by ajju 18y ago
Bootstrap your startup to beta while still at Yahoo. Sure you'll have to put up with not working on what you love 100% of the time but it'll be better than 0% and probably close to 100% seeing how you seem to like Yahoo o.k. I am in a situa
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by ajju 18y ago
The real challenge is not just aggregating everything into the inbox but being able to present it in a way that suits the user's personal style. Some of my facebook messages, some twitter messages and some RSS feeds (but not all of them) ar
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by ajju 18y ago
One of Google's strengths is innovative strategies to counter employees who are leaving just for the sake of novelty, also knows as their 20% projects initiative. From what I hear, this is no longer enough to keep their employees there, esp
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by ajju 18y ago
The only possible explanation for having an image of a monkey associated with Paul Graham is that they applied to YC and were rejected.
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by ajju 18y ago
Well done! Knew this would happen the first time I saw how awesome it was. Proof - http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=169159
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by ajju 18y ago
Interesting. How do you define "quality of work"?
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by ajju 18y ago
So do you normally shout "Call me root baby! Who's your root!" when you're doing your bed hacking?
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China threatens to attack websites broadcasting the Olympics without authorization(defensetech.org)
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Ask YC: Thoughts on remotely cofounding a startup (in India)?
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by ajju 18y ago
I posit that the 3rd point "share your book" is as much about increasing the word of mouth for Mr. Godin's books as about helping readers increase value derived from the book. I am a fan Seth Godin and his books. His second point about keep
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by ajju 18y ago
"Very smart adults often seem unusually innocent, and I don't think this is a coincidence. I think they've deliberately avoided learning about certain things. Certainly I do. I used to think I wanted to know everything. Now I know I don't."
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by ajju 19y ago
There have been noises from Microsoft going right up to Gates to the effect that they themselves are abandoning Vista. This would make the life of this product pretty short if it only targets Vista's flaws. Also, only people forced to use
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by ajju 19y ago
Microsoft not doing something that could make them money and is in all likelihood perfectly legal (not that that has stopped them in the past) just to "not be called assholes"? Really?
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by ajju 19y ago
Wow. Never thought I would be endorsing another video/slideshow product this late in the game but Omnisio truly is head and shoulders above anything else. Just goes to show that if you can isolate a large subset of customers that are not be

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