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by mailarchis 14y ago
"Yang earned around $14 million last year alone, making $3 million pretty insignificant " - He distributed close to 21% of his annual earnings. That is significant
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by mailarchis 14y ago
Wondering whats the difference between fb liking a product on e-comm site vs fb want
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Aswath Damodaran, NYU's Professor on fair value of Facebook(businessinsider.com)
1 points by mailarchis 14y ago|0 comments
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by mailarchis 14y ago
Fav Quote “surely we’ll have hired someone experienced before we actually need to shard”
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by mailarchis 15y ago
There are companies Not necessarily law firms, who provide services on analyzing patents and submitting a list potential candidates that can be sued.
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by mailarchis 15y ago
Thanks very much for the answer pg.
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Ask HN: How to determine company valuation?
1 points by mailarchis 15y ago|2 comments
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by mailarchis 15y ago
"Tech related startups are most easiest way of making revolutionary things." - I would say Tech related start ups are easier to start, as in lower initial capital investment maybe. However, I won't be too sure about easiest way to make revo
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by mailarchis 15y ago
There is some really good advice in there. On a side note, have we completed a cycle and the word shit by default means good shit.
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by mailarchis 15y ago
It will be more interesting if we can get data on when monetization began for both google and facebook and how they compare since then
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by mailarchis 15y ago
This is an interesting concept and more interesting is that this is something that had been tried successfully a long time back. In 1997, at Trilogy Software, a bunch of new employees as part of their training program (Trilogy University) p
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by mailarchis 15y ago
I think if you look at it every company renders service. Now, when you talk about a product, maybe its safe to say that its a tool that a company sells to provide a set of services in an automated manner. Hence, increasing the number of cus
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by mailarchis 15y ago
I am not sure about Spotify and Dropbox. I do know disqus uses django. Ref - http://www.slideshare.net/zeeg/djangocon-2010-scaling-disqus
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by mailarchis 15y ago
I am not sure if people will be interested in hiring you for free. The reason is its not actually free. Once you join a firm even if its part time a certain amount of time and energy goes towards the employee too. And if you are working for
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by mailarchis 15y ago
I started doing part time (15 hours per week) freelance work on odesk around a year and half back. I was working on a startup and we had almost run out of our savings. My starting rate was 10$ per hour . (am based out of india). Currently I
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by mailarchis 15y ago
If its 1000 Euros per month, I think you can do better if you start looking for remote/freelance work. You can try odesk.com or elance.com to get started with. As your portfolio starts building up, you can start charging more per hour and y
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by mailarchis 15y ago
Is this 1000 Euros per month ?
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by mailarchis 15y ago
Note - I have no experience in building or monetizing mobile games. Still sharing an idea for problem 2 1. Somewhat similar to Wii, after every X minutes of game play, display a popup with a one minute timer asking users to take a break. to
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by mailarchis 15y ago
On a different note, what is the definition of world ? I absolutely admire the companies listed but am not sure if they are the top 5 businesses in world
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by mailarchis 15y ago
Some of the successful internet companies in India 1. irctc.co.in - indian railways gov site to sell tickets online. largest amount of online transactions happen over here 2. naukri.com - jobs site 3. shaadi.com/ bharatmatrimony.com - matri
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by mailarchis 15y ago
"I've seen it a couple of times on big community websites when people complained about a new design, and then a week later realised that just because it started off not feeling like the site they grew to love, it didn't mean it wasn't a hug
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by mailarchis 15y ago
"Any code not written by me is bad code, And if i do write bad code i make it sure never to look at it again" ---
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by mailarchis 15y ago
There is a surprising fact I stumbled upon when i visited Panama couple of weeks back. Blackberries rule in Latin America (at least from what i saw in Panama and heard) Maybe Blackberry is losing out in states but is still going strong in o
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by mailarchis 15y ago
I'm from India. I signed up on Facebook in the year 2007 when I traveled to US and made acquaintance with people from abroad and wanted to stay in touch with them. Between 2007-2009 I used Facebook mostly to stay in contact with friends who
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by mailarchis 15y ago
I think the point above is there was no need for Nokia to abandon meego as their mobile platform just because it is too late to arrive at the party and doesn't have enough developers building apps for it. As long as it got the core experien
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by mailarchis 15y ago
It is interesting. I guess yesterday an article which compared the % of users using addons on firefox vs those on chrome. Firefox had the higher number. But its probably more of an indicator that chrome is reaching out to mainstream user ba
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by mailarchis 15y ago
Just a thought. maybe this is an indication that Chrome is reaching out to more mainstream crowd (Read - non geeks non techies). An average user just wants to google search, check emails, facebook, read stuffs on internet and do shopping.
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by mailarchis 15y ago
Not Azure per se, but Microsoft did try to bring cloud to consumers. Does anyone recall Livemesh http://explore.live.com/windows-live-mesh?os=other Am not sure how much traction it finally got
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by mailarchis 16y ago
There are quite a few people out there who would enjoy working out on interesting questions. If you already know the question or have solved it previously you just give the solution and admit it that you had seen it earlier. But more import
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by mailarchis 16y ago
There is an interesting observation. Try selecting a random number multiple times with page refresh. The ui keeps changing.

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