kamikazi

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by kamikazi 11y ago
Yeah, so let's repeat that - this time in a vastly different market, way crazier demographic variety, far different socio-economic & growth conditions and tech/internet revolution which has exponentially changed for good since
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by kamikazi 11y ago
Toll-free analogy doesn't work - https://medium.com/@amod/the-broken-analogy-toll-free-vs-zer... This post is from CTO of Flipkart (India's #1 ecomm site) who supported NetNeutrality & was opposed to his
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by kamikazi 11y ago
The problem is akin to being a frog in the well. Millions of first-time internet users will be onboarded (using shady mktg techniques - that's just how things work on the ground where it gets real dirty) onto free flavors of handpicked
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by kamikazi 11y ago
"You must be on the Reliance network to use Internet.org. If you'd like to access these websites for free, use a SIM card from Reliance" -- What I see when I visit internet.org from my wired & wireless, non-Reliance telco
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by kamikazi 11y ago
it's not a superior vs inferior product. This was just an example to show that telcos are making money at the entry level too & they should (screenshot - http://i.imgur.com/gpsgRLh.png ). This data plan has nothing
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by kamikazi 11y ago
> It's too expensive to make the whole internet free. Mobile operators spend tens of billions of dollars to support all of internet traffic. If it was all free they'd go out of business. >> Mark seems to be implying here
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by kamikazi 11y ago
Here's the full reply from India's SaveTheInternet.in coalition exposing Facebook's chicanery --> http://www.hindustantimes.com/technology-topstories/mr-zucke... This piece can be instructive and usef
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by kamikazi 11y ago
oh well ...hello! :-) and sorry I kinda took a shortcut to the assumption that you were not an Indian.
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by kamikazi 11y ago
Denzil - we have bodies and committees for every thing but no action takes place. Our CCI is a joke. There is no anti-trust. And less said about our courts & justice system the better. Just a small eg: Satyam chief, Ramalingam Raju, pic
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by kamikazi 12y ago
India's underrated, unheralded and inimitable columnist, Vikram Doctor wrote a fantastic column last year about the Indian connection in ice trade | http://blogs.economictimes.indiatimes.com/onmyplate/cold-com...
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by kamikazi 12y ago
very cool! I'll try this with my 4.5 year old - he's just about getting a hang of an internet as an 'abstract invisible something' - that like electricity is out there; that it can be turned on and off. And when it'
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by kamikazi 12y ago
Very impressive Ankit. Really liked your hack to go cold emails. Even InMobi cold-called all the way to KPCB! So it's not unheard of. All the best on journey ahead. Bit of a noob Qn: Is it the norm to have as much as 50 investors in yo
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by kamikazi 12y ago
I hesitate to link to this because they're still one year away from shipping but this could be one option: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smartrico/rico-turn-you...
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by kamikazi 12y ago
Thanks for your perspective David. On re-reading maybe I personalised those comments a bit too much or it comes out as litany of excuses which was not what I intended. Just wanted to let Kevin know what makes the Indian/Asian mkt diffe
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by kamikazi 12y ago
Me too. In my case YC deadline just happened to coincide my decision to startup. More than the financial backing my startup would've benefited more by being in YC ecosystem and my feet on the ground presence in signing up those early c
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by kamikazi 12y ago
Got rejected. No big deal. Will continue as planned. Good luck to everyone who got selected and double of that to fellow rejectees. Launched a medical tourism startup-- prepre-alpha. Just nothing to show on url really (OTOH I also wonder if
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by kamikazi 12y ago
Sounds interesting. Few more details? - email in my profile. And all the best. We got rejected too.
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by kamikazi 12y ago
<Offtopic for others, but imp for forca - pls don't downvote> Hi forca: With respect to your comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304139 ) where you stated you needed some surgery and sought help with fi
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by kamikazi 12y ago
http://blog.intercom.io/the-end-of-apps-as-we-know-them/ - This article about where mobile apps are going resonated with me. It says we're eventually moving away from a bank of homescreen icons to notification cen
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by kamikazi 12y ago
Disclosure: Indian W'15 applicant here. Very pleasing to my ears. Few days back @sama also mentioned in one of the interviews to local print about wanting to make inroads into India and I welcomed it. Done properly YC can get nice resp
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by kamikazi 12y ago
http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators has a pretty exhaustive and useful list of all the international incubators/accelerators with some metrics. You can point to it as a resource. This is a good bundle you came up with.
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by kamikazi 12y ago
Bingo! I came across Progress first time this week in a different context (Indian startup scene) - they portray themselves as incubators here ( https://www.progress.com/incubator ). Have a fancy application system et al.. eve
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by kamikazi 12y ago
I recently spent some time (probably more than I should have) at naming my new project. I went through a couple of namegenerators and I found bustaname.com to be the best of the lot - specially it's realtime domain availability check (
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by kamikazi 12y ago
I came across this only today and just want to say it's excellent. Beautifully done. Thanks for putting it out.
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by kamikazi 12y ago
Well yes I can go read the act but at this early stage don't have that much time to spend on legalese without first understanding the contours. I'm looking for simpler explanations, case studies, blogposts of individuals/ or
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by kamikazi 12y ago
If I'm allowed to override with a tangent: What's the best place to start reading on HIPAA for non Americans? We're starting up a healthcare services co (applied YC this batch!!) where we might potentially have to be covered
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by kamikazi 12y ago
Thanks. This looks like a great set of links.
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by kamikazi 12y ago
Hi, I'm applying this batch. Is there a way to print-preview my application to see how it'll look after submission? I'm mainly concerned about some of my answers which look lengthy. And does YC have bias against explanatory l
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by kamikazi 12y ago
Upvoted with a thousand clicks!! Probably the most gleeful project I've come across in years. On to the waiting list. I'm of the generation where Windows 3.0 was just coming up and there was DOS and as fresh highschool kids we jus
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by kamikazi 12y ago
Thanks. On rereading I realise the eligibility conditions are ORed which I misread as AND.

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