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by anmol 15y ago
Pay $1000/month for a combination of: -- reasonable short-term accommodation, e.g., high-end youth hostel type -- Shared office space e.g., Dogpatch Labs or General Assembly style -- good internet and coffee -- permission to work (visas, et
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by anmol 15y ago
French food, art and culture. (Not to take anything away from Thailand or Chile)
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Consider buying a scenic French village and make into a startup/hacker haven?(newsfeed.time.com)
60 points by anmol 15y ago|64 comments
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The Nurse in Your Pocket(businessweek.com)
1 points by anmol 15y ago|0 comments
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by anmol 15y ago
A founders perspective on this: I think such negotiation tips are great because they helps engineers, many of whom are not the best negotiators, get the fair market value they deserve. This is a real concern when recruiters are involved, or
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by anmol 15y ago
Due time, thanks for doing this. Everytime I'm booking an Indian rail ticket I cringe at the UI/UX on the official Indian Railways site.
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Big Data + Health: Ginger.io wins $130k Data Design Diabetes Challenge(ginger.io)
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by anmol 15y ago
As one of the ML alums on HN, happy to share a few pointers. The lab is a total of about 250 grad students and faculty, including MS and PhD. I imagine about 60% of grad students are MS. Even if you have an MS before, you'll have to start w
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by anmol 15y ago
it could be revolutionary if it helps create a slew on android education/entertainment apps meant for low CPU / low network tablets. note the official poverty line in India is about $1/day and 30% of the population is below it. These people
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by anmol 15y ago
So much for building a Boston startup eco-system.
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by anmol 15y ago
See Netra: http://mashable.com/2010/07/01/netra/ http://web.media.mit.edu/~pamplona/NETRA/ Netra is an MIT Media Lab project ($2 attachment that attaches to a cameraphone) for measuring prescriptions. Huge market. They're in the proces
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by anmol 15y ago
I know of several MIT people who've been early employees at startups in their 20s / early 30s and made few hundred K upon exit. Does that happen often? No. Will it happen for early Dropbox and Airbnb employees? Yes. Can you get the same opt
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by anmol 15y ago
How did they burn through $3.5MM in less than a year? Curious.
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by anmol 15y ago
Doesn't google have an IP assignment like every other tech company, that affects what you can work/own, on the side? Also, as oft-repeated, part-time startups don't quite work.
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TechStars Boston Demo Day highlights health start-ups(gigaom.com)
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by anmol 15y ago
Funnily enough, I'm one of the people mentioned in this article, and we're a 3 person startup making this real.
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by anmol 15y ago
the most amazing thing about all these companies is the level of market traction, almost all of it achieved in the last few months. vieforit-- fashion deals site has the top 25 premier labels signed up and selling. red rover-- corporate q&
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by anmol 16y ago
we are called ginger.io
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by anmol 16y ago
Consider an example of the revenue focus: -- The valley has Dropbox (a Boston company with an awesome product that moved west) -- People here cite Carbonite (which apparently makes a lot of $$ and is heading to IPO, but no tech person seems
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by anmol 16y ago
got links to what models you're using? I used to analyze such data.
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by anmol 16y ago
interesting idea, definitely a lot of value. I've seen many of the big telcos and large companies spend a lot of resources and $$ on this problem.
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by anmol 16y ago
disclosure: we're a three person startup in Cambridge, and just spent the last week in the valley. There are both pro/cons of the startup ecosystem in Boston. -- Its harder to raise funding in Boston compared to SV. In addition, a big part
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by anmol 16y ago
To me, Jon seems to have demonstrated exactly like the type of resourcefulness YC asks for in its applications [1]. Unfortunately there was no way for YC to predict the Jon had these chops at the time. The fact that YC can make such predict
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by anmol 16y ago
And then there are media articles like the Independent[1], which compares the Winklevoss twins the to Larry Page, Sergey Brin and Oprah Winfrey, and suggest they're modern American heroes. This whole saga is an media circus. They already ma
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by anmol 16y ago
ceo is a ex-mckinsey partner who draws a $400k salary. what do you expect the internal culture is like?
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by anmol 16y ago
if one agrees with the idea that js will be everywhere, why learn a skill that will be commodity? there will be lots of people you can hire to do it for you. real world example. say my html is sloppy. but I'm really good at core components
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by anmol 16y ago
isn't hunch an example of #2? as an outsider, with many west coast friends, it appears that both start-ups and investors move in herds. for example, six months ago it was location-based check-in services?
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by anmol 16y ago
a) this is wicked cool b) in person, these guys are rockstars, esp aaron
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by anmol 16y ago
just sent some swag on a buget to a consultant who went out of his way. -- XKCD comic book -- LHC tshirt (havent printed our own yet) -- cookies and chocolate with our logo
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by anmol 16y ago
IMHO really think you need to aim outside your demographic, pick a lot of non-web / computing skills. You'd be surprised how much value tech can add in basic professions. Also, learn to partner . Go to the local cleaning-maids agency, ask

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