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No risk capital - the Startup - VC gap in India(economictimes.indiatimes.com)
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It would depend on which job market you are trying to target, this is my guess (it also differs based on geography) Enterprises (mostly in this order) - Java (standard J2ee framework) - Javascript, HTML, CSS - .net (mostly asp.net, many cor
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Excited, dive right in, run the tutorial, get to the first block, (optional - google try 1, google try 2) and yawnnnnn, next please... This one has a reverse interest for most entrepreneurs, how do you get your product past the initial exci
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Thanks for bringing this to limelight Just started experiencing this early on this week via Node Webkit, it is just awesome what NW with Chromium brings to the table. The first thing that came to my mind is that this should have been there
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Good one, looks neat, and congratulations on your first open source project! Can there be addition where there is one more mode where there is a small icon lets say 'i' at the a specific location (left top, right top, left bottom,
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One thing that perhaps Americans always miss out or under rate in their own startup culture is the support ecosystem, especially the media I see that in US, there is a media circle that continually builds itself around entrepreneurs and cel
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So you do agree that people keep changing and at any point cannot be generalized
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If Japanese hated asymmetry then why was Yumi - an asymmetrical bow the choice weapon for he world famous Samurais http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yumi Generalism may help paint ourselves into nice little circles for easy
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However earnest, such efforts always end up being a narrow perspective which when successful becomes even more dangerous as then the one persons stereotype becomes an 'accepted fact' (case in point the Indian head nod references,
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A great new way to find interesting places, awesome indeed! This is what a social network should be, a place where human collective consciousness is used to better our choices in life.
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The blog places its argument on the basis that data plan cost is going to be high. Would this be the case in the future? What if data plan costs are that negligible that it does not matter? Secondly, compare this to TV networks, consumers w
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In my language we have an ancient term/story called 'Yaanai Kanda Vaadham' meaning the 'debate on the elephant' (the origin of the story is controversial so lets leave that out). Perhaps you have heard the story, fo
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Geeksphone is doing pretty impressive for a startup that they were launch partners for Firefox OS and now have roped in PGP founders for this project. Were they successful in delivering on the Firefox phones?, Their website always says &#x2
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Once a female security officer in Amsterdam airport made loud, snide remarks about how I arranged cables and stuff in my laptop bag. That by itself was very annoying, imagine being called off in front of all people like a criminal for no fa
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This thread is a good example why name matters. If the same product was given any other name, perhaps it would not have been noticed that much. A set of motion sensors with a central comm hub. The makers perhaps thought that the name '
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The fact is inspite of all parenting measures each one of us has had encounters as a child, which when looking back might have done us great harm if we were not just plain lucky enough to have supportive parents As parents ourselves this ge
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I too have been trying to capture this in excel, thank you for making it available in this format.
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Echoes with all parents for sure
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Yes indeed, if one thing US is best at it would be marketing, but what I have explained is only true for the past decade (2000 upwards). Upto the 90s and before the tech boom, it was very difficult to make a good living in India where the o
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I am not for political correctness but let me try to counter your perspective Since the Indian employee has a good track record and the company is willing to transfer him to US, lets assume that he has around 8-10 years of experience. This
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I can relate to it. I listed it more from an information point of view. Though it would be interesting to know of companies which have actually done this
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Very good article. It is not possible to build a product if cashing out is the first thing in the CEO's mind. We always hear and talk about only two exits IPO (getting rare now) and Acquisition (the $B glamour). However there is also a
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This is good news! I will definitely evaluate it now and decide whether it is worth away from Chargify which we use now.
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'scroll sickness' noun 1. nausea caused by endless web content, esp. by Facebook, Flickr, Mobile Apps, News Feeds 2. headache caused by intellectual bloat on consumption of too much content 3. compulsive behavior caused by intense
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In the last mile, the effort is very impressive and laudable. Agents/Volunteers make a door to door visit or there is an announcement via public address systems about the visit in that area. The vaccine is oral drops and is very easy t
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oops sorry, I thought it was funny that people can be so eager to have their comments appear but I missed the seriousness
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Putten, Netherlands
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Hey, where should we put the 'Gurus' and the 'Ninjas'? There is one more person, the one that is busy 'getting things done'
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Ha ha! It gave me a good laugh :-)
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There is a cultural undercurrent to loneliness too In my previous job (with others from India) at a North European company which ran out of one of their towns. The loneliness of a beautiful North European town (100% conservative white popul

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