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by awaaz 8y ago
Yes, it did. AFAIK, they took in 15,000 companies, but gave the grant to about 100. I got the grant :-)
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by awaaz 8y ago
> Sunlight has a power of ~2kw/m^2 in visible spectrum FYI, solar radiation is more like 1050 W/m^2 on earth's surface, of which about 40% is in the visible spectrum. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Sunl
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by awaaz 8y ago
Don't forget Asimov's The Martian Way. First published in November 1952 (!!!), the story is about how Earth refuses to export its water to Martian colonies who are using them as reaction mass on their spaceships. The Martians, in
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by awaaz 8y ago
Have you been to an ENT specialist? I grew up with chronic nose issues. When I was about 12 years old I was told I had enlarged adenoids which should be operated on. However, mostly due to my own laziness and the fact that you can get by wi
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by awaaz 8y ago
> Forget ever using electrical element heating, which is 100% efficient from a thermodynamics perspective, but uses a ridiculous amount of kWh per heating unit. A question regarding this. Why are heat pumps not used for heating, instead
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by awaaz 8y ago
Depends on who you ask. Winston Churchill was a racist bigot who starved 4 million people in India to feed his armies. http://content.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,2031992...
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by awaaz 8y ago
Opfin | Sales & Marketing | Full-time / Part-time | India | Remote | Cash + equity Opfin (www.opfin.com) is an automated payroll outsourcing firm for SMEs in India. Think Gusto or Zenefits, but for an Indian audience. The product i
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by awaaz 8y ago
Another keyboard-only method which I haven't seen mentioned yet, that I learned in Windows but seems to work well even in Linux, is to press alt+space and then 'm' followed by arrow keys to move the window around, or &#
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by awaaz 8y ago
Opfin | Sales & Marketing | Full-time / Part-time | India | Remote | Cash + equity Opfin (www.opfin.com) is an automated payroll outsourcing firm for SMEs in India. Think Gusto or Zenefits, but for an Indian audience. The product i
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by awaaz 8y ago
Just got the rejection email.
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by awaaz 9y ago
Opfin | Head of Sales and Business Development | India (anywhere) | Full-time, Onsite Opfin (www.opfin.com) is an automated payroll service for Indian companies which features: - Auto bifurcation of salary into components like basic, hra, m
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by awaaz 9y ago
Sorry, our focus is completely on payroll.
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by awaaz 9y ago
I am Anuj, the founder of Opfin. Here is the gist of Opfin - There is plenty of software available in the Indian market to calculate payroll. Such software will typically output how much employees need to be paid, and other deductions like
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Show HN: Automated payroll service for Indian startups(opfin.com)
21 points by awaaz 9y ago|10 comments
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by awaaz 9y ago
No, you do not. I am from India, and went through YC on a B1/B2 visa.
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by awaaz 9y ago
ZipPhone founder here. For some reason my YC profile had a non-existent website listed (awaaz.mobi). I have changed it now to zipphone.com (not hosted, since the company was acquired), and changed the email to founders@zipphone.com.
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by awaaz 9y ago
Opus is something really, really cool! My last company (Zip Phone, YC S14) was a direct result of the fantastic work that the Opus team has done in the last few years. I remember researching audio codecs around the end of 2013 and stumbling
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by awaaz 9y ago
This is absolutely false. I am the founder of Zip Phone (S14), the only company from that batch to have had an exit so far according to yclist. This is my quick story - joined YC in the summer of 2014 with a product that I had been working
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by awaaz 12y ago
In my opinion Apple will never let a third party develop something like Zip Phone (for android) that has the ability to automatically route phone calls away from the cellular network. Not just because of their carrier relationships, but als
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by awaaz 12y ago
Hello, I'm Anuj, founder of Zip Phone and I'll be here all day to answer any questions that you might have. Zip Phone started as a small personal project, but has quickly grown into much more than that. I hope you enjoy using it a
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Zip Phone (YC S14): Free, encrypted phone calls without launching an app(techcrunch.com)
13 points by awaaz 12y ago|4 comments