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With Funding From BMW And Khosla Ventures, InstantCab Rebrands As Summon(techcrunch.com)
7 points by ajju 13y ago|1 comments
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by ajju 13y ago
Excellent read. Perhaps "Intelligence is a commodity" would be a better title for it.
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It's a sad day when my country sacrifices freedom of speech, yet again, in response to a mediocre* book from a largely ignored author which would have faded into oblivion on its own. * or worse - Read the Amazon reviews, specifically t
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by ajju 13y ago
This is satire guys. Hopefully it's intentional satire, and not an unintentional self-parody of how wall street guys think.
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"The public opposes most new construction, not realizing that it’s the key to keeping jobs"
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Interesting! Looks it costs around $50,000: http://droneswatch.org/2012/07/12/not-just-for-military-use-...
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by ajju 13y ago
"Each ScanEagle system costs US$3.2 million (2006)" ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Boeing_Insitu_ScanEagle ) Indeed!
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Was looking into this just yesterday after a friend suggested an interesting application of drones. The Parrot drones seem to have a very low range for any practical use such as this. From a few minutes of looking online, I couldn't fi
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by ajju 13y ago
Congratulations. Just yesterday I told a friend about Terravion but I thought you guys were using drones. Are there any drone platforms with >1 hr flight time and >1 mile range available for non-defense use? By the way, the TechCrunch
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Insider Look at Super Bowl Sunday(blog.instantcab.com)
2 points by ajju 13y ago|0 comments
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Behind the Scenes of Super Bowl Sunday(blog.instantcab.com)
3 points by ajju 13y ago|1 comments
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by ajju 13y ago
The IIT example is probably misplaced. My dad went to the IIT at roughly the same time. Based on conversations I have had with him, the IITs had a 5 year program at that time because the students who got in had very different levels of some
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by ajju 13y ago
I think it is important to draw a distinction between challenging local regulations like million dollar medallions that hurt both drivers and riders and laws that prevent companies from hurting their competitors to steal their supply, the w
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by ajju 13y ago
No, the idea of matching riders to driver using a GPS enabled phone is at least as old as 2001: http://www.google.com/patents/US6697730 Zimride did indeed launch in 2007 as a Facebook based carpooling app. It wasn&#x27
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by ajju 13y ago
Not sure what you expect them to publish beyond MAUs and DAUs by region. Those are pretty standard ways to measure engagement and if I were Facebook I'd be loathe to publish more granular data just to "quiet the critics".
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by ajju 13y ago
You mean the actual metrics linked to in the 2nd sentence of the post? https://www.facebook.com/photo.php?fbid=10101235005815241&se... (Oh, you missed that? Is that because you didn't actually read the post?)
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by ajju 13y ago
Wouldn't that just be a Founders Conference? :) Joking! As an immigrant founder, I can think of a couple of key issues may have been different for me than a resident founder: immigration laws and their impact on startups (obviously) an
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by ajju 13y ago
I have heard from friends at Amazon that that is in large part an origin myth. This is hearsay, so take it fwiw.
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by ajju 13y ago
Great post. A point worth highlighting even more than it is in the post is this: "A tool is ready when others can use it."
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Congratulations Justin and Daniel.
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by ajju 13y ago
5% of farms in the U.S. are using Farmlogs! That's insane! Congratulations to two of the nicest founders I have met and their team :)
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Love writing and talking to people? Going up against Goliath? Come be our voice!
1 points by ajju 13y ago
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Thank you. We think it is sustainable because it is fair to both drivers and riders!
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by ajju 13y ago
Public transit is definitely an option that a lot of people use and we endorse it!
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Flat Fares - an alternative to Surge pricing.(blog.instantcab.com)
5 points by ajju 13y ago|5 comments
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by ajju 13y ago
Thank you for sharing that. For context: I am male and Indian. There were several female founders in my YC batch and I know female founders from other batches. From everything I heard, they felt quite comfortable and enjoyed and value the Y
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by ajju 13y ago
Erica, genuine question: Did you reach out to any female founders who went through YC to ask about their experience?
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by ajju 13y ago
When a similar brouhaha happened over PG's comments about accent taken out of context, not one publication cared to actually interview the scores of foreign founders with accents that have gone through YC (I am one). The same thing hap
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Ah, I get it now.
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by ajju 13y ago
Not sure if this is sarcasm, but $35,000+ is a HUGE sum of money for even the decamillionaires I know.

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