albahk

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by albahk 16y ago
Here we preach the startup mantra of constant feedback and correcting course on your business in order to know in what areas you need to improve. Why is it that different for kids that need to know, for example, that they suck at multiplica
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by albahk 16y ago
I've heard ex-YC'ers claim that the money is the least significant part of the whole YC process with contacts, mentoring and the guaranteed Techcrunch coverage obviously being much more useful than the $20k.
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by albahk 16y ago
What happened with domains over the last 20 years (landrush) happened with property hundreds of years ago. Governments basically gave it away to ex-convicts (in Sydney, Australia for example) to own and do with as they please. Over time, th
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by albahk 16y ago
I definitely have a different personality when I speak Mandarin, a language I studied for a year in Shanghai. I am not fluent, so my spoken mandarin is very simple, but direct, without the fluffiness or sugar-coating that one tends to inclu
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by albahk 16y ago
I hiked up past that place a few weeks ago. Right at the top of the hill is an old military barracks with some creepy overgrown sleeping quarters etc. worth a visit if its not too hot. Off topic, you going to Startup Saturday tomorrow at Cy
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by albahk 16y ago
The odds of being shot by anyone in China unless you are comitting a violent crime is far less IMO than in the US.
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by albahk 16y ago
I live in HK and have lived, studied and now spend time working in China. If you are ever in HK and fancy a beer, drop me an email... first round is on me.
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by albahk 16y ago
Perhaps a Wordpress/Drupal plugin.
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by albahk 16y ago
You could piggyback off a popular meme doing the rounds and turn it into a one-off mini-site. For your product GoodGecko (I assume this is why you are asking) you could put up a one-page site and ask which old-spice guy video they liked th
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by albahk 16y ago
I have an ongoing issue with magazines for 'entrepreneurs' because of the overuse of the word. I'm sure the magazine will be very well done, but will top-10 lists of twitter clients really be catering to entrepreneurs, or will it be cateri
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by albahk 16y ago
In my early twenties I worked as an entry-level property agent (realtor) in Hong Kong for a small-time agency. No minimum wage system exists so I got paid about US$650 per month and had to work 6 full days (right up until 7pm on Saturday ni
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by albahk 16y ago
Hong Kong housing is in large clusters and extremely densely populated. Taking only three of the large private housing estates (Mei Foo, Taikoo Shing, Whampoa Gardens) gives you a population of roughly 150,000ppl. So the providers can be re
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by albahk 16y ago
Off-site backup is a good one. If I backup to a NAS on my Gigabit LAN at home, it should be similar speed to a colo-NAS located within the same datacentre as the ISP. According to the linked site, you can download a 4.7GB DVD in 38 seconds.
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by albahk 16y ago
As a startup, if you knew each of your customers had 1Gbps access, what could you do that you can't do now?
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1Gbps Symmetrical Home Broadband for $26 per mth (in Hong Kong)(hkbn.net)
33 points by albahk 16y ago|39 comments
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by albahk 16y ago
Great timing - I just abandoned an idea because I could not find a wiki-type product for what I wanted. Basically, I want to create a wiki to keep track of many different properties and the associated images, lease documents, information et
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by albahk 16y ago
I work for a large geographically diverse company and we often carry company stuff between offices on our trips to save on the cost of couriers. Perhaps you could whitelabel this service and hook into tripit.com or something similar and dem
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Selling shovels (spades) vs Mining for gold
3 points by albahk 17y ago|0 comments
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by albahk 17y ago
Are they not simply developing within Google's (et al) ecosystem similar to bit.ly in Twitter's? What happens if search engines evolve slightly or ban them? With >$300m raised already an IPO simply smells like an attempt for investors t
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by albahk 17y ago
I think a single service may not perfectly satisfy my needs for each category of service - but in terms of billing, to be more aware of just how much it was all costing would help. I know the psychological advantage of subscriptions for the
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Ask HN: Subscriptions on lots of apps/services starting to add up
10 points by albahk 17y ago|3 comments
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by albahk 17y ago
I just got a beta invite and was planning to spend the weekend moving my real estate listing data to the service to try it... at these prices I am happy to do it myself. I feel like the pricing is aimed at funded startups or mature business
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by albahk 17y ago
Amusing quote taken out of context: "..called Stormcloud, to kill Unicorns when they ran out of control." Tomorrow's headlines: "Twitter is killing Unicorns"
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by albahk 17y ago
Just to clarify my original point, I don't suggest the consumer is forced to return these products - merely that if I want to throw away my first generation iPod then Apple should be the one that can take it back and reuse or recycle it; af
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by albahk 17y ago
"De-manufacturing" instead of throwing away things. A company that sells you an item must take it back at the end of its life and break it down into constituent parts to be re-used/recycled. i.e. cars, phones, computers, fridge, house, offi
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by albahk 17y ago
I was a MAD Magazine fan and in a Super Special issue in the early 90's they included BASIC program source code printed in the magazine. I sat down and typed the whole thing in line by line and printed a full-screen pic of Alfred. E. Neuman
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by albahk 17y ago
1. The best of Youth. (Italian movie, 6 hours long, completely moving) 2. Empire of the Sun 3. ...
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by albahk 17y ago
Offtopic: everytime I land on startuplessonslearned.com I get an IE Operation Aborted dialog and an error page. This has occured every time for at least 6 months. Shame, I really want to read the articles. Browser: IE 7.0.5730.13 on XP Pro.
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by albahk 17y ago
First thing I notice is your logo looks a lot like the center of the Wordpress logo.
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by albahk 17y ago
Perhaps http://www.newscred.com/ although I don't see a light glaring out of a hole.

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