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by carter 19y ago
Hi! I'm from Russia! :) And I also want to move to the Bay Area. Agree on visas problems! Let's try to solve these problems Together! Feel free to drop me an email: bloodcarter@gmail.com
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by carter 19y ago
Agree. But it is too tight market, don't you think? Labels generally generate profit from popular and recent artists.
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by carter 19y ago
Hmm...I'm afraid I don't understand why do you considering using P2P unconvenient. Cos here in Russia it is the most comfortable way to get music. Internet music market is only a few $millions for now. But even if it will grow, I doubt that
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by carter 19y ago
I think, only fans will pay for music and go to concerts. The others will listen to music for free. I don't know anybody in Russia who pays for a music regularly. But I know a few fans who buy legal albums.
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by carter 19y ago
hmmm...I think all this tech stuff about sport is cool, but the most important thing in sports is sportsman's will. The one can drip thyself with dozens of sensors, ipods, etc. But if he don't have a passion....it's useless. Nevertheless, s
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by carter 19y ago
The best PR is satisfied users. If you achieved product/market fit, then you don't need all these PR investments. I think.
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by carter 19y ago
Agree. It's like to travel from A to B. You can choose a train to get there in an 3 days or you can choose a plane to get there in 4 hours. YC's money are not critical for my team too, cos we're already building our app. But I can't overest
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by carter 19y ago
The main reason to move to a startup hub is that you have much more chances to succeed if you burned all the briges after you.
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by carter 19y ago
hmm...that is interesting....
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by carter 19y ago
WOW! That's a great idea! Multi-charge batteries, light weight, opensource, reliability, low cost. I imagine a boy from Tanzania sitting with this laptop among the trees and creating something new, cool. Something US and EU people couldn't
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by carter 19y ago
I think we don't need just another social network. Do you know about identity crash problem ( http://www.urbandictionary.com/define.php?term=identity+cras... )? We need some bridge between websites and social networks. some kind of cross-si
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by carter 19y ago
Good luck you guys :) We have a similar problem here in Russia. The investors or too small to fund you or they too large to work with you) Hopefully we dont't need money to start a startup) My advise - submit your application. I've submited
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by carter 19y ago
I agree. There are must be some losses in translation, cos pictures are just approximations to the elements of thinking process. Pictures have some "cross-platform" features, but their expression power much lower than language's. Ex. consid
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by carter 19y ago
What for? Doing so you just trying to fight a trend. Don't fight the internet, use it.
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by carter 19y ago
Mmm...around 6 hours in average.
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by carter 19y ago
I see. But maybe it is better for you to find a local investor then? YC team and YC crowd may just don't know India market well to help you with advices, etc. Or it's a big problem to find money in India?
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by carter 19y ago
Hi. I think they can do it. Read the FAQ here http://ycombinator.com/faq.html The main question is not a location. The question is if they understand your market. Also there is a question: is you product only for India? Why don't you want
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by carter 19y ago
Hey, dude! You right. Never surrender. I'm 21 from Novosibirsk, Russia. When I decided to start the startup it was REALLY hard to find co-founders. I thought that my friends will join me. But they was too scared about the need to drop out t
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by carter 19y ago
Hosting a lot of startups doesn't turn a particular town or region into a startup hub. I don't know China well to talk about it, but I've never heard about cool successful startups in China. Maybe it's like here, in Academgorodok, Russia: a
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by carter 19y ago
We use colocation for now.
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by carter 19y ago
Great! My congratulations to the Xobni guys. I've asked Fred to give me an private beta invitation.
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by carter 19y ago
Zak, that sounds vague. So I don't understand what you've done. And Rails can be much flexible. What are benefits from your framework for a particular types of web apps?
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by carter 19y ago
If you want to hire a programmer for a free, when you'd better try your personal contacts indeed. Otherwise you should try various communities and job sites. Like: Craiflist jobs.37signals.com rubyrockstars.com etc.
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by carter 19y ago
People are the same all over the world. But they are just under different conditions. That is all. Tell me who's your friends and I'll tell you who you are. How can you be an enterpreneur if all your relatives and friends suppose that stabl
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by carter 19y ago
This is my problem. I'm from Russia and I'm working on YC application for this winter funding right now. But those co-founders here in Russia I've been counting on are just afraid to start a startup.
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by carter 19y ago
I think you should charge for the additional value of your app first. And add a small but fair cost to your expenses on managing user's data in Amazon S3. But in this case you should base your price plans' on features and functions first.
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by carter 19y ago
It sounds just like advice from brilliant Paul's essay "How not to die". As for me I was sure that Last.fm's founders will get rich, because you have to if your users love you. It's a law)