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by blrgeek 16y ago
Jacques, if you're in the Netherlands (as your whois indicates), then you should file a complaint with KiFID, your financial services regulator. http://www.kifid.nl/overkifid/contact In India, most issues that the banks don't bother about
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by blrgeek 16y ago
His estimates are 2x what my wife and I spend. Our 2BHK was INR10K ~ USD200 pm. This is by far our biggest expense. Our monthly petrol bill is INR2K ~ USD50. Groceries (we eat 4/5 meals at home weekly) is INR4K ~ USD100. Utilities ~ USD100.
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by blrgeek 16y ago
Want to blow your mind? Fiction Keep an open mind, and a sense of wonder when you read these for max effect! Hitch-hikers guide to the galaxy. I was hooked at "The big yellow ships hung in the air just the way bricks don't." Dune - what doe
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Assembly line eye surgeries in India - http://96.0.107.6/?q=node/view/1829 I've read elsewhere that many medical students intern at Aravind Eye hospital simply because they can see and treat more cases of a rare disease in one week than t
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by blrgeek 16y ago
We've been in the exact same position too! Now we're at a stage where we do have a repeatable (hopefully highly scalable) sales model, with a seasoned sales guy making sales happen. But some folks in the company are still on the "customer v
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by blrgeek 16y ago
Imagine Excel with automatic cell-level revisions, with safe shared editing & control, with better automatic error checking. If someone does that, I'll guarantee you that 'decision-makers' will switch very very fast. You know the main p
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by blrgeek 16y ago
I don't think a startup is defined as having a life of 6 months or less. The large majority of startups must have a few dozen employees - which is exactly where training would help.
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by blrgeek 16y ago
Case 1. You hired me for my engg. skills, but I suck at managing my time. Spending an hour teaching me time management is going to give far more returns than anything else you can do. Case 2. You hired me as a junior sales-person. I've done
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by blrgeek 17y ago
http://hbswk.hbs.edu/archive/4652.html Zara supply chain ---> mass-manufacturing * lead-time Vs lean manufacturing * cost Applies to almost all industries. Difference is if you want a million of the same thing, or thousand of a thou
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by blrgeek 17y ago
Whatever anyone says is a reason for them, the naysayers don't find convincing. Coincidence? * I want a simple, small, light tablet. Naysayers: You can't do Photoshop on it, so no one will want it. * I want to give it to my mom so she can
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by blrgeek 17y ago
Please share!
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Quote from the article "Those with other styles were not failures by any stretch – experience does count for something. But those who added checklists to experience proved substantially more successful." And Buffett might argue with you tha
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by blrgeek 17y ago
In the Indian context, this article makes much more sense! Note for instance the opening, "Recently I met with parents of the founder of one of our portfolio companies." :) How many times would PG have met with the parents of a YC founder?
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by blrgeek 17y ago
If 95% of the patients would have MS symptoms continue for two years at least, then having only 27% of the patients show symptoms 2 year on, is insanely significant statistically. Similarly, if the average number of active lesions stayed at
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by blrgeek 17y ago
Do you know how html works? Normal browser * Have link to content, say blah.html * Download blah.html * Parse blah.html, * extract links to css, js, images, flash ... * Download from extracted links * Display Instapaper * Have lin
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by blrgeek 17y ago
Don't get a senior sales-person. Get someone who can transition into handling existing customers along with one or two of you. Then one or more of you can focus on sales. Then get a junior person who will grow with you. Then once you have t