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by rameshnid 16y ago
Dude - Good Initiative. I am from the developing world. Smart choices- via sat. Need to think about- 1. whose gonna pay for these devices? If the cost of device exceeds 50$ an year, it has no market - at least via free markets. Tie ups wit
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by rameshnid 16y ago
Learning methodologies change very slowly. You will notice we still learn via institutions which is something like an 500 year old concept. It's not about techies not contributing, it's about the pace of the industry you are in. Learning wh
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by rameshnid 16y ago
Patience pays, most of the time.
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by rameshnid 16y ago
True. Or u can kill ur tom-tom market with ur own iTunes app. The thing about tom-tom is it's a gps device. So u get easy adoption for a gps service. Because you get the pre-established intent to use a gps service. Basically get noticed wit
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by rameshnid 16y ago
Hmm. Don't know if there is an option completely outside of an app store. U can use the app store that Tom Tom plans to enable on it's new gps device. See http://www.electronista.com/articles/10/04/29/tomtom.to.use....
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To app or to not app(benrameshlin.posterous.com)
25 points by rameshnid 16y ago|19 comments
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by rameshnid 16y ago
I think he missed one other pro for having the tabs on top- It makes it easy if the tabs are on top for a user using touch tablets.
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by rameshnid 16y ago
Related reads- "Israel Nation" on how Israel built something similar to the valley http://www.startupnationbook.com/ PGs essay- http://www.paulgraham.com/america.html
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by rameshnid 16y ago
I think fundamentally Jason's advice works for the business of selling web apps. And scott's got it all mixed up with general business practices of large corporations. Jason is a romantic when it comes to what worked for him and he is preac
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by rameshnid 16y ago
You should also read Charlie Mungers - "Poor Charlies Almanack". Charlies essays discuss incentive design and biases in human psychology. http://www.poorcharliesalmanack.com/ The first step in creating a system which exploits biases is to
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Startups in India making web-apps. Don't carve a niche(benrameshlin.posterous.com)
3 points by rameshnid 16y ago|0 comments
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by rameshnid 16y ago
That's like sailing on 10 boats and one will sink :) 10 industries is a lot of work. The idiosyncrasies will kill you. Be as generic as possible. I say 'Go after Wordpress'
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by rameshnid 16y ago
Guys, I think it's a funny post or is he serious?
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by rameshnid 16y ago
I have long believed, it's impossible to assess ones own intellect. What's more interesting is the ability of a genius to locate and acknowledge another genius even if he is from another field and even when it's not obvious to others. Geniu
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Free books on Econ (reddit.com)
2 points by rameshnid 16y ago|0 comments
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by rameshnid 16y ago
The middleast realizes that education is important for their growth once they run out of oil. They notice the success of israel and are trying to mimic it by creating institutes of excellence, but what they dont realize is there is no way t
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by rameshnid 16y ago
Wall street is the only way. If money is the goal, then LEVERAGE is important. The highest leverage given to a mans brain today is the Wall Street. In every other endeavor you have to personally do a lot of things right to even dream of th
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by rameshnid 16y ago
A man of finance measures his success on a single metric - wealth accumulated. A techie founder on the other hand has many takeaways - social respect, geek goodness, making the future instead of guessing it, money in some cases. I think if
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by rameshnid 16y ago
I agree these kids can be entrepreneurs. They are already entrepreneurial in their approach to scams. However I am afraid they will not get any VC funding for any of their gigs. But nevertheless a great initiative. The nigerian govt should
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by rameshnid 16y ago
Great post. There is research done at the MiT that also supports the fact that intelligent people (ppl with high iqs) find it difficult to make choices and stick to them even after having known which choice is most likely to benefit them th
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by rameshnid 16y ago
The similarity one notices between "making a movie" and "building an app" is something more commonplace. In all activities that involve significant investment of time/money in the start and a big cheque at the end require this kind of think
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by rameshnid 16y ago
I recommend a book titled "naked economics" for all. It is a great book and a must read for a technologist to see "macro vectors" alongside the "technical vectors" that help for a sounder prediction of the future. http://www.amazon.com/Nak
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by rameshnid 16y ago
Jaron Lanier would disagree...
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by rameshnid 16y ago
My design would be a giant coffee shaped recycle bin in the coffee shop and the 2 streets adjacent to it. Would lead to more effective recycling.
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by rameshnid 16y ago
The support will come in only if one of android running phones leap frogs the existing mobiles by a huge margin. That would compel google to shift to a strategy that would include 'marriage' with a device and less chaotic market presence. G
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by rameshnid 16y ago
Start up visa: http://techcrunch.com/2010/02/24/startup-visa-jobs-green-car...
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by rameshnid 16y ago
Go back. Get a business visa from your country, come and do business in the US. Alternatively, there is a thing called the 'startup visa' being contemplated. But I think it will get enacted from the end of the year. It requires you to have
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Ask HN: Startup people are narcissists?
7 points by rameshnid 16y ago|5 comments
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by rameshnid 16y ago
When a human first saw a photo did he say 'an etched memory of me' or did he say 'it's a new cool thing called a photo and it's of me' In the same way I don't think there is anything wrong with the concept of file as long as the abstraction
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by rameshnid 16y ago
Meta-ness is a disease plaguing the web. That aside I wonder how they are going to monetize it?

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