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by babul 18y ago
The best ones I have used are LucidSpec ( http://elegancetech.com ) and AxureRP-Pro ( http://www.axure.com ), but Balsamiq wins for basic conceptions simply because it is web-based and it is easy to collaborate with others across the globe
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by babul 18y ago
On a side note, and without wanting to be negative, at times I am not really sure they care about many things apart from growing really fast and getting momentum/exposure/traction (which is understandable). You can gauge how much they (or a
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by babul 18y ago
These tools are really only as good as the information they are provided or access, and without looking at failure rates/reasons in the model do seem fundamentally flawed to me. As mentioned by others, the results provided do look very opti
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YouNoodle Startup Predictor now live to try it for yourself.(younoodle.com)
20 points by babul 18y ago|35 comments
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by babul 18y ago
If you work hard, you should be rewarded (in a way that is meaningful to you). It is that simple. However, practices like this are rife throughout industry.
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by babul 18y ago
Appreciating how busy you are, what you do (thank you), how HN is built, the fact HN is not a business par se, and that one would rather not have a feature than something poorly implemented, it nonetheless would still be helpful to many e
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by babul 18y ago
I know http://www.searchyc.com et al exist, but still do not understand why HN does not have its own search facility.
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by babul 18y ago
This reminds me of http://www.razume.com
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by babul 18y ago
I am still wondering why others like TechCrunch et al have not at least tried something like a quantitative prediction tool before. Perhaps it was too much conflict of interest to their core reporting/news business model, or too much work
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by babul 18y ago
I'm sure people like songkick are already working on it. However, as always, building it and getting it to take off are different challenges.
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by babul 18y ago
An analytics engine / machine learning tool has to begin somewhere. Why not start on a small(er) data set you are passionate about (and that has immediate benefit to your business model and user base), that you can record and measure more e
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by babul 18y ago
When you do it in private, it is stalking. When done in public, it is a service to society. :)
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by babul 18y ago
Generally, if you make things people want and value, monetisation often occurs naturally, and the rewards derived from being excellent on the open market often out weights that of being excellent within a company environment.
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by babul 18y ago
Being 25-30 I have yet to see this trend :( and don’t see many of the people I know with partners more than ±4yrs their age. Moving may solve the problems related to geography, but perhaps not those of culture and lifestyle which often form
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by babul 18y ago
Generate quantity. Fail. Learn. Rinse. Repeat. The quality will appear. Success (and money) follows thereafter. Rate of return usually wholly dependent on the value to users generated. Don’t worry about wasting a few hours/days as long as y
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by babul 18y ago
Living cheap also has benefit in that it often forces you to assess what you need and want in life and ultimately what is really important to you. There is a certain pleasure to be had to free oneself of the materialistic lifestyle we are o
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by babul 18y ago
I can understand the need for security, but policies such as this make people like me less likely to visit the U.S. unless I had to (being ethnic type and Muslim already makes it hard enough).
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Start-up Stories(businesszone.co.uk)
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by babul 18y ago
Not sleeping with more women. When I was younger, women were more plentiful (and looking for relationships) but I spent most of my time in front of computers. Today, computers are more plentiful and most of the nice women I meet are already
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by babul 18y ago
Third time lucky? At least you had the courage to work at various startups, even if they failed, which is more than most.
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by babul 18y ago
Wikipedia (updated moments after the news broke): http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Aleksandr_Solzhenitsyn
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by babul 18y ago
Don't agree with the generalisation. Probably more to do with fact Mixi is a better cultural fit and captures more of the essence and behavioural traits of the people.
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by babul 18y ago
Powernapping achieves much of the same (atleast for me). So if for some reason you are unable to take sleep, at least be sure to try and fit in a ~20min powernap. The benefits can be surprising.
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by babul 18y ago
To me, this is stating the obvious. The best way to learn is by doing, and the best way to get better is to (happily) make mistakes and learn. Nobody/nothing is perfect, and often (perceived/contextual) perfection is derived from iteration.
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by babul 18y ago
But, but, but it's on mit.edu! I know what you're saying and had similar thoughts. I suppressed my concerns thinking "some of this seems wrong but this is on mit.edu so they must have been through many checks". Same lesson to be learnt as
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by babul 18y ago
I would say find a problem you want to solve and build for that rather than worrying about mobile languages. If you alreay have an iPhone, go with that, if you use a HTC/Nokia smartphone, build for that. After you have built a few initial a
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by babul 18y ago
Inertia. Getting started is the first fail point as too many worry about too much and hence never start. Make a start, and just keep iterating. Each time you will find the "hardest part" changes.
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by babul 18y ago
I like to powernap between problems (and mull them over while I rest my eyes). Coffeshops are not good for this, but I have found libraries often are. Quiet environments, often excellent views (most libraries seem to be in the best parts of
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by babul 18y ago
Using twitter (or similar) seems to a popular theme in the solutions.
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by babul 18y ago
I mean more in terms of external hype.

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