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by r_singh 8y ago
> I think it's largely a zero sum game If I get your point right, I think that depends on a few things: (1) how much the 'Trump's rural base' in question depends on the Chinese market for their exports (not as much as
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by r_singh 8y ago
These tariffs aren't new to China however. Do import duties ring a bell? Countries like China and India have been imposing (and raising) them on various products for many reasons (mostly protecting local industry, generating employment
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by r_singh 8y ago
It's quite simple actually. This tariff is essentially is price disadvantage for China made products; products made in the US now have a relative advantage. So this is done in the hope that it will make sense for people to buy US made
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by r_singh 8y ago
Fair enough, but this protects local businesses trying to compete with imported goods from China, since Americans don't have to pay the taxes (tariff) in question for goods made in the US. It's been like this in India for decades,
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Building Product – Startup School 2018 [video](startupschool.org)
1 points by r_singh 8y ago|1 comments
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by r_singh 8y ago
I find it amusing to see that it's so common to find contrarian research papers around marijuana / cannabis (usually because of apparently contrarian effects on different parts of the body / brain, depending on usage), despit
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by r_singh 8y ago
Pardon me if this sounds naive, but I'm slightly confused as to how recreational marijuana is legal in 9 states but the DEA still heavily controls cannabidiol as if it were still illegal?
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by r_singh 8y ago
The bar for milestones to raise money has increased a lot over the last two decades. What was 1M users is now 10M+ users. It's also worth noting that a lot of tools make growth at a faster rate possible as compared to before. The incre
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by r_singh 8y ago
This post shows a helpful cold email pitch structure for startups trying to reach out to investors without prior introductions. The author spent hours over a period of time honing this template before cold-email-pitching to the same investo
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How I Turned a Cold Email into a $2.5M Seed Round(blog.usejournal.com)
28 points by r_singh 8y ago|7 comments
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by r_singh 8y ago
This reminds me of how a friend from SF texted me saying he missed 4G speeds in India. I genuinely thought he was being sarcastic at first. Another thing hard to ignore is the cost disparity between data in India and the developed nations;
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by r_singh 8y ago
Do you want to add a 'Show HN:' prefix to your submission?
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by r_singh 8y ago
Execution > Idea. Remember that there's a 1 in 1000 chance that someone actually takes your idea and executes it. Also remember that the idea has almost no value without any work put into it. Apply to YC / SUS similar incubator
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by r_singh 8y ago
> Justice Chandrachud said denial of right to sexual orientation is akin to denial of right to privacy India doesn't really have strong privacy rights though, so this comparison doesn't hold up well. However, this is a big day
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Supreme Court of India decriminalizes gay sex(timesofindia.indiatimes.com)
6 points by r_singh 8y ago|1 comments
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by r_singh 8y ago
I'm not sure such comments are appreciated on HN. All communities and groups in the world have crooks.
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by r_singh 8y ago
It's easy to get annoyed by the aggression and the overall tone of the speaker, this happened to me as well. However, when I look at what he is saying objectively, he is suggesting quite the opposite from what the tone implies. A good
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by r_singh 8y ago
Haven't gone through the series yet so I can't confirm whether the things discussed are applicable or not. However, I can confidently say that founder driven sales efforts are important even before 'finding' the product
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by r_singh 8y ago
Is the 2018 MBP keyboard different from the 2016-2017 one? I use a MBP 2018 and thought the keyboard was the same as the 2016-2017 MBPs (since the arrival of the touchbar). It's understandable that you dislike the keyboard; feedback is
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by r_singh 8y ago
https://close.io/ (YC W11) Close is much simpler and BS free than Salesforce. Most sales teams I know dislike using salesforce as it is almost always configured to be more complicated than necessary.
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by r_singh 8y ago
It's awesome to a series on Sales from another top venture firm. For anyone that's looking for similar resources. Here's another awesome series I came across (while searching for YC resources on this topic): https:/&#x2
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by r_singh 8y ago
There's many reasons for this, one that's simpler to explain is relative performance. If sales person A is working a lot harder/smarter/adaptive to get more clients that sales person B. It may lower his morale to see B g
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by r_singh 8y ago
Yeah, it didn't occur to me that you weren't an applicant, sorry. Sounds like something YC or Startup School applicants could do something about. Although, realistically speaking, YC may not have anything to gain from connecting t
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by r_singh 8y ago
Your bio doesn't have any contact info. I've updated mine to include my email address.
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by r_singh 8y ago
Not everyone is in the advisor track. About 4000 out of the 15000 are in it—is what some of the comments are saying. The applicants that were initially erroneously accepted and then rejected are in something like an audit track, except they
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by r_singh 8y ago
Pretty sure it wasn't because a lot of originally accepted startups received the rejection email and to be honest it's slightly embarrassing to make such a mistake. However, saying that we're "accepting" all applica
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by r_singh 8y ago
Does your email say you're accepted to the advisor track? That's how you know if you will be a part of a group that gets an advisor.
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by r_singh 8y ago
Interesting question. Now that the forum is going to be open to all applicants, I guess you (and others like you) can post some information about yourself and how you can help what kind of startups and how many. And then startups can choose
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by r_singh 8y ago
I personally think that they've rectified this in a smart way by introducing 2 tracks: the advisor track and a normal one (this is just a guess since I received mail saying I've been accepted to the 'advisor track'). So
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by r_singh 8y ago
I received a rejection mail at 02:15am IST and then an acceptance mail (saying I should've received it in the first place) around 2 hours later for the 'advisor track'. Making me wonder how many tracks are there? And what&#x2

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