balajiviswanath

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The rule of 3 in time management & productivity.(blog.belimitless.co)
43 points by balajiviswanath 13y ago|23 comments
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Show HN: Inspired by the movie "Limitless" here is our Chrome extension.(chrome.google.com)
5 points by balajiviswanath 13y ago|0 comments
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Ask HN: What common tasks should a startup outsource?
4 points by balajiviswanath 13y ago|2 comments
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Do Social Media Opinions Influence Stocks?(forbes.com)
1 points by balajiviswanath 13y ago|0 comments
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Hot and Emerging Startup Trends in Silicon Valley(blog.zingfin.com)
2 points by balajiviswanath 13y ago|0 comments
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How do you successfully launch a product?(quora.com)
2 points by balajiviswanath 13y ago|0 comments
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Why is Dropbox valued in excess of $4 billion?(blog.zingfin.com)
2 points by balajiviswanath 13y ago|0 comments
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
Interesting concept. Where did you source the data from? Are they from public records or Wikipedia?
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
Very cool design and concept. I loved how you used Bootstrap for this.
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
Bait and switch model is a pretty old concept (promo offers, free trials, etc in consumer goods).
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
I'm an active Quora user and I feel irritated by the whole flood of reviews that is polluting my feed. There is also a huge internal rage against the feature. It is like turning university classrooms into a bar.
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
That's a good feedback, rmason. It is a niche model that could be added to the article.
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
If you are a solo entrepreneur who is running a website part-time and furthering your personal brand, then advertising is not a bad idea. However, it is different if you are working full-time along with a team and building something bigger.
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
Thanks chewxy. The only issue is that advertising is getting increasingly sophisticated and contextual. The big boys (Facebook and Google) have way too much data and crowd out the smaller startups. So, startups should start thinking beyond
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Show HN: A new tool to visualize financial markets(zingfin.com)
5 points by balajiviswanath 14y ago|0 comments
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How do free services on the web make money?(forbes.com)
86 points by balajiviswanath 14y ago|50 comments
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
As the 4 columns show, productivity & hours worked go diametrically opposite (negatively correlated). All the countries in the most working list are also in the least productive list. So, it still doesn't change the German assertion tha
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
Thanks Alpha. That is great info. However, I tried all these tools and none of them are quite good. Blackboard has very few startups (most in their list are publicly traded cos) LinkSV is very hard to navigate. Also, these companies are foc
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Ask HN: Alternatives to Crunchbase.
5 points by balajiviswanath 14y ago|3 comments
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
Out of curiosity, what do those 3 founders really do? If they don't develop products or sell the products or get the funding they have no business to be sitting as founders. Many non-technical founders have the weird notion that ideas matte
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
If you get a competitive pay, try to hang on more and see if you can turn around the company. Tell the founders about your concerns and see if they will let you get added as a co-founder (so that you benefit when the company finally turns a
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
There are three essential things that are important in running a startup: Focus, Focus and Focus. ;-) At a startup, the entrepreneurs could do build a million different things and I found it sometimes hard to curtail both my ideas and those
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
At this stage of your career, you should think more about the experience added by the job than at the numerical salary number. If you work with the right people with right ideas, that $30K (minus taxes) can be compensated in no time. As ano
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Y Combinator’s “No Idea” Round Isn’t a Bad Idea, It’s Awesome(businessinsider.com)
1 points by balajiviswanath 14y ago|0 comments
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
There are freelance product managers (check out oDesk and Elance), but it will take a lot of effort in getting the quality guy as there is a low signal-to-noise ration. Also, it must be understood that product managers need to be a core par
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How to deal with difficult customers?(isolsoft.com)
1 points by balajiviswanath 14y ago|0 comments
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
As a programmer, I love the fact that the demand is outpacing supply. But, I also have this weird feeling that we are back in 1999. Back then, even crappy programmers commanded 6 figure salaries. Hopefully, I'm wrong.
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
If an ordinary Joe had tried to open your unlocked mailbox to read the mails he would be arrested. But if a $150b corporation does this, it would be wrapped in wrist. Only Google can get away so easily from this. Imagine if Microsoft had do
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
I typically use PHP and many of my sites are built on Wordpress. I have previously done Web programming before realizing that it can get pretty expensive in terms of maintenance. With quality, premium plugins and themes, you can get a quali
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by balajiviswanath 14y ago
Not necessarily. I had a few bad experiences with vWorker, freelancer and other market places. oDesk is slightly better than the lot. In oDesk the initial 30 days was working on low priced contracts and couple of times with clients who didn

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