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   by sachinag 17y ago

   One piece of feedback: we've found that buyers don't think in ranges; they think in terms of budgets. If my budget is $10,000, I don't just want to see the $3K-$10K range; I'd want to see all the designers under $10K, so that I'd see the u
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   by sachinag 17y ago

   A developer pimps his wares by 1) still having a portfolio of sites they've worked on, 2) being able to have a reasonable conversation, and 3) being competitive on price. You have no idea how goddamn hard it is to find developers - they're
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   by sachinag 17y ago

   I'm not sure you need the visual component for developers - the hard part is getting a sense for what things cost, how long they take, and how people work. Turns out those things are really hard to get a feeling for in isolation, but in com
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   by sachinag 17y ago

   Per @ev: http://www.bing.com/twitter
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   by sachinag 17y ago

   I do freelance tutoring on the side. Eventually, I'll put up a website and write some materials for sale.
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   by sachinag 17y ago

   There's one I can think of off the top of my head: Posterous acquired Slinkset. There are probably others.
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   by sachinag 17y ago

   Agreed. And to think I was downvoted for my screed against puffery: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=887482
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   by sachinag 17y ago

   I don't get the preference for Yahoo as an acquirer over Google. Yahoo has repeatedly killed internal projects in favor of acquisitions - Google, for better or worse, has a substantial NIH mentality. Sure, Flickr and Delicious haven't rea
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   by sachinag 17y ago

   I think that's all true. The part that's important is that Caldiera was OK with the fed quote . Caldiera even updated his website to make it clear that he's OK with the fed quote: http://dge.stanford.edu/labs/caldeiralab/ If you've eve
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    Don't use wrist braces - they're for immobilization, not pain mitigation. If you need to persist in the same activities (and you really should look into PT), the ACE bandage wraps are the best to "offload" stress: http://www.walgreens.com
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    Seriously, dude, why not approach startups that fit your technical strengths? Going to PG is kind of silly. (Also, having your resume in PDF form only is lazy - if you can code, surely you can get that into decent-looking HTML/CSS.)
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    Link fails for me - it goes to a registration check page or some such?
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    It only works if the product is great. There are a few rocket ships that are great products that have grown with word of mouth that don't have the structural virality (as with Facebook quizzes or the Hotmail footer) - Mint and Dropbox imme
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    This was pre-Photos app, which is what took off like a rocket and blew out their hosting and bandwidth costs. They were profitable before Photos.
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    Sridhar, I had heard (from a relative in India) that the networking products (your first two on your list) were consulting projects that you productized. It appears what I had heard was wrong, and I apologize. Kudos to you for building a p
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    Remember when you could beam money to your friends using your Palm Pilot? That was awesome. /snark
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    Only when I'm a drunken mess.
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    I really don't like commercial language that makes it harder to compare products and services. There's no reason for First Amendment protection for puffery; it's not unpopular political speech. I'm not saying you can't have fun and be whi
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    These same reasons generally apply to Chicago, Atlanta, Philadelphia, Los Angeles, San Diego, Omaha, Manchester, Paris, Munich, Tokyo, Osaka, Beijing, Hong Kong, Sydney, Melbourne, Accra, Sao Paulo, Buenos Aires, and every other major city
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    I know it's cute, but goddamn, someday I hope puffery is declared illegal.
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    Most non-technical PMs I know were former founders at startups of their own. Aside from that (cause that's an expensive and painfully round-about career path), I wish I had answers for you.
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    I'll be there, but I'll be late, so don't y'all all pack up and move from there. Besides, I'm already budgeting for the calories of a burger.
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    The VC firm I used to work at only took Board Observer spots, even in situations when we'd lead deals. The reason for this was essentially cultural (it was a captive arm of a much larger company), but I still think Observer roles are OK ev
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    Going all the way up to Hopleaf for a 312 that you can buy anywhere in the city is a big fail, Brad.
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    Stellar. OT: How many of us Chicago HN'ers are here? We should do a meetup sometime.
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    Schools are not looking to admit the best students - they are looking to admit the best class . That means that they have an idea of what the shape and character of that class will look like, after taking into account certain restrictions
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    I love the line about how they can't find a designer who can follow directions. Ah, creatives.
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    Hunh. I just clicked the link to do login with Twitter, but I didn't actually join the game and it Tweeted out on my behalf - http://twitter.com/sachinag/status/4811174469 . That's lame.
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    In the last three months, the weekend guest posts on TechCrunch have completely reinvigorated the site.
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    by sachinag 17y ago

    If this is true, then you should really publicly out them. I don't get why on earth you would "protect the innocent". If we're all in this together, then we need to alert each other - as loudly as we can - when we see things that aren't r