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by dakrisht 13y ago
Some great comments from everyone here. Glad to see an intellectual and factual discussion on HN vs. the usual flaming someone or something! We need more VC's like Mike Markkula today, no doubt.
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Great little read. Uniquely portrays the cultural differences between the two schools but more importantly, shows just how different the West vs. East Coast mentality is when it comes to technology startups, products, innovations, etc. Not
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Ask HN: At what point does AWS not make sense
8 points by dakrisht 13y ago|6 comments
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by dakrisht 13y ago
I completely agree with you - twisted pair has go to go and fiber needs to terminate in the home. It's actually a embarrassing that this country can neither build a somewhat simple healthcare website and has some of the slowest access
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Right on. And it will 100% go over budget given the amount of work needed, ancient infrastructure, non-compliant landlords and the "I just don't give a shit to change" LA attitude. I remember two years ago when I was the CTO
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Great in theory, but I just don't see this happening with the telcos (AT&T and TWC) controlling the entire broadband footprint in SoCal. It's called collusion, look it up. These two telcos (the worst in the world most likely)
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Maybe because they're unprofitable? Maybe because what's the point of pinning random items on a virtual pin board? Maybe because what's the need for $500M in capital for a website? Maybe because what good does Pinterest do fo
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Please be sure to include Pinterest in this one. They might be valued higher than Genentech at this point.
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Yes, yes they do. But like you said, that's fine. Props to the SnapChat guys for cashing out, raising a ton of venture from sheep VCs and getting millions of users? YES, absolutely. Props to the SnapChat guys for creating something of
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Totally. It's how the wind blows these days in "tech". It's reminiscent of a bubble with all of these mobile apps calling themselves "companies" when most aren't even profitable. It reminds of the early 20
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Yelp, no way in hell. Uber, closer for sure. Uber is a valuable service at least in the Top-20 cities.
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Yeah, and then all of the sudden it starts raining and the kids flock to another beach with a newer DJ and fresh faces. End game.
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Zynga was/is just a glorified spamming enterprise built atop Facebook's platform to get cheap and massive volumes of traffic. They've never created anything even remotely original (have basically ripped every single Maxis tit
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by dakrisht 13y ago
"I would venture that we understand more of the immune system's complexity than any other system in the body" NO - this is a completely and profoundly FALSE statement. We have learned quite a bit about the immune system in th
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Ask HN: How to get media, blog coverage for a new startup/product/technology
1 points by dakrisht 13y ago|0 comments
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by dakrisht 13y ago
I agree with you that having customers on a waiting list or a pre-order list is a great move with regards to pre-money traction, but there are certainly companies out there with proprietary technologies that require funding before they can
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Traction doesn't apply to a hardware startup. Quite simply, it's impossible to get any sort of "traction" when you don't have the cash required to commercialize hardware and release it to customers. Not to mention t
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Too late, Yahoo has already agreed to pay $50M and integrate with Tumblr.
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Pretty cool. Now imagine the tools the NSA has, live satellite feeds and hi-res cameras all over the US and the world with a bunch of Diet Coke drinking zombies clicking, zooming and panning all day long.
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Far, far from the "Word-killer" more like a glorified "Notes"
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by dakrisht 13y ago
The only reason I posted this article is because it appeared on my Twitter feed an hour after I saw "Fab lays off 100 employees in Europe". Can someone please explain to me how and why on earth this company a) raised a $150M Serie
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Fab raises another $10 million and sets sights on Asian markets(gigaom.com)
1 points by dakrisht 13y ago|1 comments
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Brett, I'm certain that as cynical, harsh and snarky some comments here might appear, most do mean well. It's a twisted form of constructive criticism to say the least, especially on HN. Some look at the details, others the overal
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Hmmmmm I'm personally not a tablet-typer and connecting a BT keyboard to an iPad with a case is basically a laptop, so I'd rather just use an Air (wouldn't you?) Quip looks nice, but from reading this thread, their and playin
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Doesn't look as nice. Apple sells. You don't reinvent the wheel when it's running well.
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Why not offer a $1.99 version without having to create an account. Everything these days is "create an account", "allow access to contacts", "sync with FB" - gets annoying.
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by dakrisht 13y ago
It helps to be the ex-CTO of FB when raising $15M for an app with not that many users. But best of luck to these guys if the product is good (haven't tried it yet, not much of an iPad typist)
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by dakrisht 13y ago
Never played Crush the Castle. And now that I looked it up, well, there goes the originality of their IP. Unreal.
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by dakrisht 13y ago
This is how most VC's and kids calling themselves "entrepreneurs" these days see the world. If I have to hear one more idiot with an app or another 56th version of a similar service like Instagram say they're "chang
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by dakrisht 13y ago
I'll give it up to Rovio. They had an original idea, a great product, they kept releasing new additions to the product. They built a large business around it. They branded the product, they created merchandise, they never scummed their

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