ryuio

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by ryuio 17y ago
only true for very few internet based startups. Big counterexample : Trilogy E-Business - took 3 years before the first sale, made somewhere in range of $30mn in the 5th year.
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by ryuio 17y ago
This is a great writeup. I have also come to disagree with the specific PG essay mentioned in the post. Entrepreneurship needs to be more sustainable than what is made out in the current literature. It shouldn't really be a 2 year binge in
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by ryuio 17y ago
Couldn't disagree more on his statement: "Never start a company just to start it. You start a company because you have an idea that you think will be great for some customer and great ideas are always worth doing" IMHO the biggest reasons t
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by ryuio 17y ago
I did a course on randomized algorithms which referenced the book on the topic he wrote. The man was almost a genius, The book is as ground breaking as the knuth series.
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Release Early(prateekdayal.net)
9 points by ryuio 17y ago|3 comments
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by ryuio 17y ago
maybe it is firefox-killer and not google-killer
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by ryuio 17y ago
Search for "wolfram alpha" -> http://imgur.com/mbda5.gif
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by ryuio 18y ago
Do this. 1. Read the countless photoshop tutorials on the net and learn it. (if you can't the startup aint going nowhere anyways). 2. Read the book 'Dont make me think.'. 3. Read it once again. 4. Do the ui/graphic design yourself. 5. Get a
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by ryuio 18y ago
how about not playing prostitute to a VC - most dont have balls anyways.
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by ryuio 18y ago
Not to counter your argument against H1B visa, but parts of your arguments are based on inaccurate prejudiced data. 1. "people who are smart enough to get jobs in some of the top corporations" - Not all H1B's work in top corporations, not a
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by ryuio 18y ago
check out meetupdiary.com on alexa - the spike is due to connect.
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by ryuio 18y ago
The follwoing is her first Cisco post - a tad too rabid for a CTO. It is an exciting time to join Cisco. Cisco is the company whose leadership legacy defines “The Network” in many ways. Today, it is a company driving many new paradigms in
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by ryuio 18y ago
I read her blog once. She didnt sound honest at all - assuming that she wrote her blog herself.
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by ryuio 18y ago
Business plan is the biggest piece of bull crap. You should know your business or do whatever it takes to learn it and persist - that is the only thing that is required and a smart investor will get that and ask the right questions. Still,
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by ryuio 18y ago
It might sound surprising but CNet also uses similar techniques to generate huge parts of their product reviews. The technique is the biggest threat to the current crop of 'content' driven search engines (read Google and everyone else) and