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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
Currently we are using Mixpanel.com (YC company). Apart from usual figures like visitors, we collect information like user-engagement with a particular feature. For example in our product we have a feature using which user can narrow result
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
These are the self-ware posts by scoble which have made his respected in tech/startup circles. Perhaps this clarifying post will lead to better discussions on quora. Any new service, when explodes, some one out there misses crucial point of
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
I dont have first hand experience of US placements. But this is what happened in India when IT services started booming. If you go to a top college, they dont interview much. You get a very fat paycheck. If you go to tier II college you are
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
Most things I learnt about my own business had been through quality meetings with quality investors who can ask really good questions. At least from first set of investors, thats what I look for the most rather than money. Having said so I
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
Right. We will just invest in all YC companies. Why bother reading up business plans, checking out markets, exploring new things. YC thinks some one is good, we will put our money. If 10% of YC companies give huge exits fine. As investors -
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
This sounds like a campus placement scene. If you get in a top college, you wont be even interviewed properly or see how you have changed in last few years/months. We will just hire you with fat paychecks. As shown by history - this does no
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Services Vs Products : Founders perspective(sushrutbidwai.com)
1 points by sushrutbidwai 16y ago|0 comments
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
I completely agree. I dont think not having com.au domain is that big a bottleneck. I would think that even grouponaustralia.com can work very well. Groupon already is geo targeting based on ip, so should not be that hard for them to get Au
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
For me the best the part of the post was "We don’t adhere to any specific development process or methodology at BankSimple. We’ve borrowed bits from processes that we’ve worked with and enjoyed, and eschewed bits that we think are unnecessa
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10 technology mistakes(brajeshwar.com)
3 points by sushrutbidwai 16y ago|1 comments
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
Best point - "you should be able to do so in about the third-time that most competent people think possible" In a short description is gives exactly the amount of information that a job post needs to give - Work, environment, challenges, co
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5 Enterprise startups to watch in 2011 (RWW)(readwriteweb.com)
3 points by sushrutbidwai 16y ago|0 comments
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
From http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Shantaram_(novel) - What is good and what is evil? When wondering whether a particular act is sin or not, ask yourself a question - what will happen if everyone does that? Will the universe move towards G
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
I dont think saying my idea as my friends idea is much lying. But I do think that you should be straight about it being your idea and use conversation skills to make sure people still give you honest advice.
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
Design is very good. But one suggestion is to include at least glimpse of some properties available for buying. Right now homepage has lot of literature, but for a new site its important to show that you have some traction and gain further
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
I dont think starbucks advice is that terrible. Even though mechanicle turk does seem like a good alternative, I would much rather go to a coffee shop or a bar where I know startup savvy people hang out and discuss it in person. But one of
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
Some part of this signing amount is for domain name. about.me is valuable domain to have IMO.
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
Any particular reason why I cant just use facebook/twitter or other similar things for taking these surveys. I ask people, opinions of whom I take as very valuable. So I dont really understand value in anonymous surveys. May be you need to
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
I would advice to look at seo and landing page strategies. also try optimizely for a/b testing.
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
Checked out Adioso. The biggest problem is it does not show any instant suggestions for destination names, and its kind of hard to make sure you are typing correctly.
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
Because it will keep the hosted google wave servers maintained and enhanced? Wave may not be very useful as a user facing web app, but I really like it as an enterprise app, makes collaboration much easier between distributed teams.
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
There is another interesting startup in similar space from Australia. http://mygene.com.au Mygene offers reports for budding athletes to understand their gene structure better and provides guidance on tuning your training to fit with your
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
can you just send a request to join? if not drop me a line on my email. email id in profile.
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
I always think that for a space like backup and sharing of data/files a startup always had much chance of success than GDrive or other biggies. Reasons - 1. Its important to iterate extremely fast and keep on improving your solution which a
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
My previous replies were incorrect sorry about that.
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Tell HN: Linkedin group for single founders
8 points by sushrutbidwai 16y ago|5 comments
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
I understand your article and benefits you seem to have received through GAE. But apart from sticking it through, I don't see useful message. I would like to know exact scalability issues you faced and how you leveraged GAE infrastructure t
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
I have been part of building a web startup using Java technologies. Our stack was - 1. Apache + Jetty 2. Java 3. GWT 4. Rules engine (drools) 5. Solr/Lucene for searching 6. Mysql (InnoDB) 7. Amazon web services (EC2, S3) Experience was goo
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
there is a Google group - punestartups. also author of punetech.com is very active helpful person. hth.
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by sushrutbidwai 16y ago
Pune. If you are looking for a vibrant startup community, Pune is the place to be. It may not be as big as Bangalore but its far more vibrant.

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