areaMan

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by areaMan 17y ago
you are missing the fact that the last "(3 times revenue today)" factor which you just dropped means you are expecting the company to triple its revenues next year, which means the normal rules won't apply (to that extent) so you can charge
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by areaMan 17y ago
There's an apocryphal story here in Dubai (most such stories are that or rumours but you couldn't help but wonder the veracity of such 'truths') that the owner of Majid Al Futtaim group ( http://www.majidalfuttaim.com ) is richer than Shiek
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by areaMan 17y ago
What a great informative post! Thanks and thanks to Mahmud as well. - There are 'middle-men' in the VC world that sell their services to unsuspecting young companies in order to get them capital - so they say. The trick is that once they h
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by areaMan 17y ago
Thanks for that info. Actually, I haven't even visited it. Just from what I've heard and considering that most tech. companies are situated there I assumed there must be atleast some dev. going on there. Any ideas where I should look at?
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by areaMan 17y ago
There is watwet.com (a twitter clone) which apparently has more users in this region than twitter. Then as mahmud mentioned, souq.com and cashu both from maktoob group (not part of this yahoo acquisition). As I said I am quite new here and
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by areaMan 17y ago
True dat! mahmud, you seem to belong to this region or atleast have previous ties with working with people in this region. (I don't know, I'm just guessing based on some of your previous comments), so I guess you are the best person to ask
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by areaMan 17y ago
For HN readers who may not be aware that much about M.East tech scene, let me state that this is huge. I am in UAE and even though I've been only an ocassional reader of Maktoob and not much attached to Yahoo, still I am excited.
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by areaMan 17y ago
Your (barely visible) footer "We hope all of the data here is accurate, but if you find that it is not please send comments/suggestions/bugs to @countrycodes." what's the email ID again? I'm sure you would've already seen it, but incase i
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by areaMan 17y ago
I had this unusual ability to memorize entire chapters of Biology and History. And unusually I could do it only with these two subjects, as for me they were the most difficult to understand and relate to. Let me just give you an example. Th
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by areaMan 18y ago
He did that? I missed it. Which book did he review?
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by areaMan 18y ago
Anybody having any views on Primer? I watched it after reading about it on Kottke. Around the sametime a few days earlier I had watched Memento. And the contrast was as clear as heaven and earth. Memento was v.intellectually stimulating and