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by akg_67 15y ago
Someone with family resources is most probably a small portion of student population and they have other easier options to immigrate if they want (investor, marriage, to name a few). The major problem with current system is on employer side
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by akg_67 15y ago
"Foreign students have one year after graduation to find an employer, convert to H-1B and then ask the employer to sponsor the green card. Nothing wrong with this." From personal experience, everything is wrong with this H-1B visa (slavery
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by akg_67 15y ago
Could this be done in reverse by software? Instead of story-generating engine, automated identification of the plot line, character profile. Basically automatically building the database you mentioned by feeding already written fiction. I t
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by akg_67 15y ago
We most probably live within few blocks of each other in Seattle. Let's hope you will still like in couple of years the mostly cloudy, rainy, dreary, no sun weather of Seattle. It is depressing weather 10 months a year, IMO. Wallingford are
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by akg_67 15y ago
I guess I can't submit my query with the story Interesting post by Roger on Big Data and finance industry. Can anyone recommend some resources for how big data is being used in Finance industry specifically in the area of automated analys
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The information dilemma - Roger Ehrenberg IA Ventures(iaventures.com)
1 points by akg_67 15y ago|1 comments
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Only point I wanted to make was that quitting job is not a pre-requisite to having a successful startup, which you were implying. I used to hear that often and naively believed that to my own peril. I discourage others to do the same howeve
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by akg_67 15y ago
I don't recommend anyone to quit a FT job unless startup is already generating cash flow and need more hours of your time to scale further. My last startup failed because we foolishly quit our jobs prematurely, it created pressure on us to
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Notified means they and their manager were told that the sick leave taken exceeded the norm, there was no retaliation, just as a check of reasonableness of leave. I am not sure how longer duration illness were treated, may be put on short-t
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by akg_67 15y ago
15 years ago, the company I worked for, piloted no limit on sick leave policy. The average number of sick leave taken fell from 12 days to 9 days. Company publised the statistics to employees and Only people whose sick leave exceeded 2 stan
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by akg_67 15y ago
China didn't collapses, only USSR did. China learnt from USSR collapse and now showing the world how to grow while maintaining control. Chaillete's future seems a possibility. Provide a basic level of necessities but beyond that you will ne
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by akg_67 15y ago
Thank for sharing your experiences openly. It offers great takeaways for enterpreneurs looking to raise funds. Only comment I have is that instead of quitting fund raising process now, use the DD work you already performed to see if you can
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by akg_67 15y ago
Experience: Data Storage, Prior Startup founding experience (small angel funding, failed), MBA. Semi-technical - Enterprise Systems experience only, no development experience. All experience in Enterprise Domain, Like Customer facing Roles.
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by akg_67 15y ago
Interesting topic as I recently spent three months on customer discovery for a CS researcher/wannabe entrepreneur who developed a spreadsheet consolidation (combining data from disparate sources) solution. My discovery work was primarily fo
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by akg_67 15y ago
I entered in Executive MBA program after financially recovering from two failed startups. Sorely disappointed with program and thinking of dropping out. From my viewpoint, 1. What are the root causes leading to business schools failing at t
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Ask HN: Find users analyzing data across multiple spreadsheets
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by akg_67 16y ago
I do and have all the things you listed * 401k maxed out to IRS limit every year primarily for tax benefit and retirement saving. Don't qualify for Roth and IRA. * Two non-retirement investment accounts. Our expenses are lot less than incom
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by akg_67 16y ago
If Ideas are meaningless, then why the first question everyone asks "What is the idea you pursuing?"
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As jack... commented, you could invest as 'friends and family' round. I am not accredited investor. But I have made a few small investments up to 10k (I call them my pay it forward) to friends and close acquaintances with 'no pedigree' who
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by akg_67 16y ago
Agree, title is misleading, may be put up to attract eyeballs. It doesn't include few other prominent conferences also such as USENIX conferences FAST and LISA.
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by akg_67 16y ago
After what Amazon and other US providers did to WikiLeaks, I will recommend everyone to have a backup plan to outsourcing data center to 'cloud'. And, backup doesn't mean another instance on Amazon cloud or another similar cloud provider.
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by akg_67 16y ago
I have several concerns with index fund/ETF investing: 1. How much of the underlying stocks, that make up the Index, are really owned by the Index fund/ETF? I doubt that such funds/ETF actually own 100% of the required underlying stocks, ma