govindkabra31

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by govindkabra31 11y ago
.. large number of people..
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by govindkabra31 11y ago
There are lot of people who fall for the encouragement from PG and such and take risks without being aware of the expected financial impact. Read through comments here and there are some first hand anecdotes. It is hugely more efficient for
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by govindkabra31 11y ago
I find it wrong that the author is using other successful companies as examples that they were built on "belief". No, airbnb founders did not believe. In fact, Mark Zuckerberg did not believe either. Nor did Larry page. They got t
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by govindkabra31 11y ago
Can you elaborate? I am not questioning your commentary, but genuinely interested to know more about what you mean there.
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by govindkabra31 11y ago
The dates in this dataset are "decision" date, not the application date. In that year, there was a fast forward movement in backlog of India's GC application... Green cards have a per country cap-- at the end of fiscal year,
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by govindkabra31 11y ago
How do you define "sell"? Adsense and Adwords - can very well be argued as selling the distilled gist mined from troves of data collected from your search history, email, photos, android app usage.
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by govindkabra31 11y ago
Wouldn't high-quality-CMS be important to bring down the cost of publishing-- to the point of determining the sustainability of the publication itself? The established media companies are struggling, if I had to describe in one line, b
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by govindkabra31 11y ago
Here is direct quora link: http://www.quora.com/I-just-joined-an-early-stage-startup-as... In jest, this is what I was thinking of sharing: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22You+should+get+out+of+Dodge.+I%27ve+...
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
Have you considered diversifying your skills? Mobile and big data, for example, are areas with lot more demand than there is supply.
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
The allocation of visas for exceptional talent is surprisingly skewed. Only about 6% of 1 Million green cards issued each year are issued to people who are here for their skills. Rest goes to family based immigration. This specially hurts e
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
This is recognized as a problem, and is an issue that immigration reforms attempt to address. Every company ends up competing on "H1B lottery" with large body shops. So a startup with 1-2 application has very little chance of maki
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
That is NOT an accurate analogy.. to make it analogous, you need at least two fixes: a) the person needs not simply see from window, but to get into your basement from breaking a double-panned window, and go up into your bedroom. b) Also th
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
many congrats. i got curious what you do.. visited your site, browser threw a security exception. http://cl.ly/image/263R2V1o100F
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
Did anyone understand why logging calls on only problem machine had different fsync behavior than normal machines?
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
A good alternative for YC to consider is to change to a 'continuous' mode.. where you incubate companies on 1st Tue of every month. The companies in a batch are already in variety of stages, some just starting with an idea, some w
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
no doubt you can build lots of interesting things (including recommendations), if people are giving you UGC. question above comment was asking was why would people generate that content for you.. incentive needs to be there for each piece o
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
but look at our personal expense.. how little do we spend on life insurance premium vs. entertainment? That's a reference point for what we would consider as value of protecting a human race wipe out event vs. a messaging app.
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
My favorite nextdoor story is when it helped neighbors find chicken poop https://twitter.com/kabragovind/status/483721368710963200
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
that is how it begins.. early signs of FB was killing MySpace was back when it was a thing that kids in a handful of colleges used. These early signs are important to recognize and highlight for incumbents as well as participants.
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
To be fair, that's not caste system.. better phrase would be income inequality or unskilled labor.
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
There are some major differences. 1) Increased pool of unskilled labor-- manufacturing industry tanked, increased immigration. 2) Proliferation of internet connected, smartphones. 3) Avoiding obvious mistakes: no free deliveries for a bottl
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
Or, they get 20-25% discount from retailers (coming out of stores marketing budget and reduction in store staff cost). EDIT: The discounts come from the cost savings stores will see from delivery companies, to clarify to people commenting m
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
You should actually ask this question before making decision.. and if your take it is that you would renegade on the decision, than you should delay making that decision.. and wait to find out if that dream job with higher pay actually came
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
I want to add a clarification note that visa issues are harder to bring someone to US for the first time. Once someone is here, doing transfers from company to company is relatively easier. I say this because I know some companies that will
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
wow.. so did you wonder, in each statement in those 3 years, what that money being put in your account is for?
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
people pointed out that it was probably sold for much higher amount. even so, $1.6million is 'never work again rich'-- at modest 10% return, with capital gains taxes, you would be making enough to pay your family's expenses.
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
A very well thought out article.. however, of the future markets that the author dismissed, "moving services" does not look as unbelievable. (article says-- "Uber could extend its reach into other businesses such as car renta
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
I am not doing a startup, so take all these suggestions fwiw. 1. You website looks great. Looks like functionality is not fully done though? I was clicking on "Book Now" but it didnt do anything. Maybe it was because I did not sig
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
Quite the opposite actually.. we wanted to do many things for the two use cases, but were holding back, trying not cram features in a bundled app. Now with two apps, we can go full steam ahead with all the ideas for each of the two use case
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by govindkabra31 12y ago
Swarm does both of those things, and more for the use case of keeping up and meeting with people. The two apps will also work seamlessly with each other, for the moments when you are making a plan for dinner with friends in Swarm app, you c

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