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by aneesh 18y ago
Better & more direct would be "We're having problems with your GMail account" That way they take responsibility for it, rather than blaming the user, or blaming no one.
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "Blackberry apps don't usually make the front page of TechCrunch." That should not be the criterion for a successful app or product.
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Google Maps Nightmare(xkcd.com)
2 points by aneesh 18y ago|0 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
Exactly. The problem is not so much with foreign oil, as with oil itself. Higher taxes to reduce consumption(Economists call these Pigovian taxes) seem to be a good choice to reduce emissions in the short term, but technological advances
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by aneesh 18y ago
Can someone tell me the difference between a tactic and a strategy? I thought that tactics were, by definition, specific short-term action points, and strategy was the big-picture long-term vision. So then wouldn't his argument be true by
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by aneesh 18y ago
From that essay: "It may take a while, but as long as you keep plugging away, you'll win in the end. Both Blogger and Delicious did that. Both took years to succeed. But both began with a core of fanatically devoted users, and all Evan and
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Ask YC: Regex web search?
5 points by aneesh 18y ago|4 comments
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "a 500k valuation was the most likely outcome for the profiles of entrepreneurs you entered" (emphasis added) Exactly my point. Given 100 startups with that profile, you can say with some confidence that the average outcome will
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by aneesh 18y ago
From the Harvard Business Publishing Article: > "Before the 1950s, lending depended on the wisdom and judgment of loan officers. Then, a company called Fair Isaac developed a way to use four simple variables to develop a credit score th
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by aneesh 18y ago
Even as a self-proclaimed math nerd, I'll be the first to admit that certain things just don't lend themselves well to predictive models. You can probably predict success in aggregate , but the individual cases are really tough to predict
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by aneesh 18y ago
There are several hugely successful Indian entrepreneurs: Lakshmi Mittal, Sunil Mittal (no relation), Dhirubhai Ambani. Even in IT, there is Azim Premji & Narayana Murthy. But the entrepreneurial culture is still not there - all of t
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by aneesh 18y ago
No, I believe you need some small amount of karma. You needed 25 karma to downvote when I joined, maybe it's gone up.
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by aneesh 18y ago
If we assume 100 million internet users that you saved 100 years, that's roughly 30 seconds per user. Let's say just 10% of people use OS X or Mozilla - that's 5 minutes per user. This is not to belittle, just to put your "100 years" in co
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by aneesh 18y ago
That's about the silliest thing I've read. Everyone struggles. The difference with the smart people is how they respond to those struggles.
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "They must either hide it very well, or never really hit those roadblocks" To struggle is human. Smart people sometimes try to hide their stuggles. But the truly smart people recognize that struggling is human, and accept it. So
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "Folks will have to focus on adding value in order to get recognition" No way! You mean people will actually have to add value to get people to pay them, like most businesses in history have had to do?
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by aneesh 18y ago
Given that the article talked about knives, I'm surprised no one's mentioned Vector Marketing yet: http://www.collegeotr.com/suny_binghamton/vector_marketing_s... . They basically mass-mail high school students trying to recruit some to s
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by aneesh 18y ago
> "..I... clicked 'buy'...and it really bought this app" Gee really? What else is clicking "Buy" supposed to do?
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by aneesh 18y ago
While you should definitely report transactions you actually didn't make, I don't recommend lying about transactions you actually made. You have to swear in writing you didn't make the purchase. And the merchant has the opportunity to pro
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by aneesh 18y ago
Agreed. But all the people who said "Yeah, my CTO was telling me about that" are also lying, and trying to trick the investor. It goes both ways.
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by aneesh 18y ago
Integration with RescueTime would be very interesting!
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by aneesh 18y ago
It's actually nice to read TC's review in 2 minutes rather than spending 20 minutes on the site to discover all that stuff on my own.
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by aneesh 18y ago
I like it, but I'm skeptical when TechCrunch says "it will eliminate the need for status meetings". Face-to-face still offers lots of advantages: you can ask questions in real time, you can read body language, and you have have quicker di
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by aneesh 18y ago
Attorneys are expensive, Hacker News is free.
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by aneesh 18y ago
I recall reading somewhere that only 2-3% of patents make enough money to even pay back the application fee.
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by aneesh 18y ago
I'm also in Seattle.
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by aneesh 18y ago
If it's as good as they say, making money is trvial: just make the predictor proprietary. The real question is: "Can they make the predictor good?"
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by aneesh 18y ago
Yeah, sports stars and celebs are typically horrible at saving money. It's all spend, spend, spend. There are exceptions, but they're just that - exceptions.
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by aneesh 18y ago
I agree that it helps to be surrounded by smart, creative people. I also think there are decreasing marginal returns to this benefit - are 1,000 smart people really that much more useful than 100 people for bouncing ideas off of? Is Seatt
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by aneesh 18y ago
This doesn't make much sense. I have yet to meet an entrepreneur who struggles to come up with a great idea; in fact, most people have lots of good ideas. The idea is the easy part, executing is harder.

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