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by prpon 15y ago
The technology is pretty cool and all but I fail to understand why I need a 3D view of a 2D world.
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by prpon 15y ago
It is human nature to over estimate the impact of events or things we do. Every one looks at the world with their own view point. They are the center of their own universe. That's all the world we know. May be not failing often is the reaso
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by prpon 15y ago
Granted that when you are working for someone else, the incremental improvement/hardwork that you put in does not translate into recognition or reward. Is it still true in the business world? Especially when you are running your own busines
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by prpon 15y ago
I thought this article would be about which one of the two (local food or less meat) is better for you health wise, with data. It talks about carbon footprint of each source.
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by prpon 15y ago
I have gotten opinions both ways. People who do not want to critique an idea until they see something they can lay their hands on aka demo. And the other side where people who want to make sure the idea has market before they write a sing
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by prpon 15y ago
And the name is?
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by prpon 15y ago
The difficult part is knowing what people need more. It's just an opinion until you find out for real. We all bring our own biases into what is essential/pain point for people. Until the rubber meets the road, you never know.
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by prpon 15y ago
The problem I see with recurly for non-technical people is that non-technical people will find it complicated to embed a widget, tab, javascript etc into their sites. Yeah, it comes down to execution. But if you can execute it so well that
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by prpon 15y ago
That is a really long and verbose questionnaire. Exit interviews when I left some jobs weren't even that long. With the attention spans the way they are, I would be surprised if their completion rate is anything more than single digit perce
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by prpon 15y ago
I am not an expert at these things but if something didn't take off despite your marketing efforts. Your product probably doesn't have a market. e-books might be hot but not the niche balloon business. You should move onto the next e-book.
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by prpon 15y ago
In what way do you think you did not execute properly? What would you do differently if you were to make it successful?
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by prpon 15y ago
Yeah, I would have liked to see specific things he learnt at apple. Load testing tools, algorithms for caching, how and which metrics they measured etc. I am trying to figure out who would find this article useful without any details.
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by prpon 15y ago
A story from meeting Donald Knuth. During the dotcom days, our startup team was sent to meet Donald Knuth for due diligence by some VC. Our startup was doing Location based stuff before it was cool. Our CTO went on and on about all the pot
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by prpon 15y ago
I feel for your situation and realize that you cannot change it overnight. In the short term, put in your profile what you can do: - What skills do you have? (coding, marketing, etc.) - What was your project(s) that failed. It doesn't matte
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by prpon 15y ago
An unrelated question. "unternehmensgründerförderung" is that a real word or you just made it up? I would make up such words when I am mad at something and can't express my frustation in real words :)
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by prpon 15y ago
Your best bet would be to go to the nearest airport and talk at the ticketing counter. They have a chart on who is allowed to board and who is not. In my case, my spain visa was category C which apparently requires transit visa. HTH.
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by prpon 15y ago
I hold an Indian passport and I recently got thrown out of a plane to Spain via Heathrow right before it took off. They said, I didn't have a transit visa. I was changing planes in the same terminal and the total time I was to spend in Hea
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by prpon 15y ago
I find that groupon using most of its funding from last round to payout people questionable. I can understand founders wanting to cash out a portion of their equity before going public. However, when you are raising money say 10 million to
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by prpon 15y ago
More than likely it is because of the bandwidth usage. It is really easy to host it using ec2 or rackspace but the bandwidth costs are gonna kill you if you are scraping HN. How often do you get data from HN?
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by prpon 15y ago
This is as minimum as an MVP can get. Why not spend some time with google api and import the email addresses directly? Here's one way to do it. http://code.google.com/apis/contacts/docs/2.0/developers_gui... Saving the contacts as a csv
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by prpon 15y ago
wow! that was a really quick sale right after the launch. Mixergy had an excellent interview with founder Dan Shapiro in April. http://mixergy.com/dan-shapiro-ontela-interview/
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by prpon 15y ago
I have a different experience from you. I am a rookie at this entrepreneurship thingy. When I ask for advice, I really am looking forward to following it. Try it and see where that leads. My biggest skepticism is advice from people who ne
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by prpon 15y ago
Having coded in VB6 in my past life, I was very happy to get away from the 'dll hell' of VB6/COM. Next up, Java. The more you deal with it, you realize the 'jar hell' is the same as before, just in a different form. Now, I get to deal with
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by prpon 15y ago
If you want to know, I tried shorting it at 110 just for the heck of it. tdameritrade says 'this stock not available for short sell'.
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by prpon 15y ago
With 2 million in income for the last quarter unless LinkedIn has something up their sleeve, 4.5 billion is a little too much. About having something up their sleeve, I haven't seen any innovation from them in the past 4 years or so.
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by prpon 15y ago
Can't find the 'pivot table' option from my account. They said they are rolling it out, any one else able to use it?
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by prpon 15y ago
If recognition from YC is the only piece that is missing from a startup's puzzle, I would be disappointed if they cannot make it on their own. Many of us are at different levels of competence at being a successful entrepreneur. Many drop of
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by prpon 15y ago
I would be interested in knowing the reasons why that startup was so far behind. Is it the constant feedback about the startup/idea from mentors and other YC members that make the startups better Or the ability to solve technical issues qui
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by prpon 15y ago
In the past 15 years or so, there is an explosion of engineering schools and the number of graduates. I've been part of the crowd that lamented the decrease in the quality of Indian engineering graduates. When you look at it in a different
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by prpon 15y ago
http://cl.ly/2S2y0s1W1S3G220u1Y3i

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