vagarwa

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by vagarwa 12y ago
would love to get your comments on our efforts at Surfmark (now focused on education but still open for everyone) required disclaimer: founder, surfmark
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by vagarwa 12y ago
Here is a straightforward reason that no one who claims to be some sort of economist (social or otherwise) can argue against: India has 1.2 billion people and is not particularly endowed with wealth that it can dig out of the ground. So the
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by vagarwa 13y ago
Not having a 'scalable' business model (or having to prove that the model is indeed scalable) hasn't deterred other companies from going public and having an awesome final exist (from Investors' perspective). Example: S
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by vagarwa 13y ago
We have an extension (for chrome) and a bookmarklet (and ipad app) that use pdf.js to add comments to pdfs and save specific pages from pdfs. The extension and bookmarklet allow commenting on any page that can be rendered on a web page (inc
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by vagarwa 13y ago
targets different group of investors (who like the fixed income component) and is quicker to issue and less costly in terms of coupon rate and transaction costs. Tesla's high stock price 'begs' a convertible offering which le
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by vagarwa 13y ago
Well he turned Surfmark down and decided to follow his gut :) (Some 'gut' that was!) https://twitter.com/brianacton/status/1997180708 And I have 'immortalized' this using...surfmark http:&#x2F
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by vagarwa 13y ago
My view - The biggest difference is the underlying system (law, bureaucracy and even infrastructure)still being used in India is the one built to extract and export resources out as efficiently as possible. That's the legacy of 150 yea
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by vagarwa 13y ago
'War' is a very specific term of the trade. Using any and all tools available when you are at War can be easily defended by a whole lot of people (not everyone0. US is not officially at war in Yemen or Pakistan or for that matter
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by vagarwa 13y ago
$100MM+, you should at least expect a proof read page? "with this purchase your are activating your VIP Membership" (I am just going by the text on the image you have supplied)
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Foreign students fill graduate science programs at US universities(nfap.com)
1 points by vagarwa 13y ago|0 comments
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Telcos threaten to sue reporters for uncovering privacy breach with Google(theverge.com)
4 points by vagarwa 13y ago|1 comments
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by vagarwa 13y ago
nope not revolutionary or new at all. Just that they are actually going through with it. With the free marketing they are getting, they have a shot at making mixing-chemicals-into-food a profitable business! And unless they are profitable,
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by vagarwa 13y ago
It may yet not be there for most (not necessarily because of inherent nutrient-biology issues but because of lack of long term testing) but it will be a damn good alternative for a few hundred million across the world: http://southasia.one
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by vagarwa 13y ago
What's the point of discussing how at fault a poor old retired widow is. Why don't we discuss of how deliberately vague the last minute update to S-1 was! (I was a banker who has written a few S-1s and I can imagine what kind of discussions
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by vagarwa 13y ago
So much wisdom packed into so few words!
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by vagarwa 14y ago
Electric cars are an order or magnitude simpler mechanical devices as compared to IC engine cars. Once an affordable battery chemistry (or any other cheap energy storage mechanism) is figured out, a lot more electric car companies will get
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by vagarwa 14y ago
a really good lawyer (aka, lots of money).
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Meanwhile in another news, Azure is down because of expired certificate(stackoverflow.com)
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by vagarwa 14y ago
Isn't all entertainment just about Dopamine release (catchall for all other known and unknown 'pleasure' neurotransmitters. Zynga's games were decent enough at first. The problem is that for a business that is in the business of purveying e
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by vagarwa 14y ago
Merchants (such as Safeway) don't get this information if you use a credit card to make a purchase. The network (Visa, MC, Amex etc) authenticates the transaction and issuing bank releases the funds. But merchant doesn't even get the ZIP co
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by vagarwa 14y ago
Banks and networks (Visa etc) don't share the customer information with the merchant. There was a class action law suit against merchants asking for Zipcode. http://articles.latimes.com/2011/feb/16/business/la-fi-0216-... Here Google is
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Parrot drives a robotic buggy(guardian.co.uk)
2 points by vagarwa 14y ago|0 comments
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by vagarwa 14y ago
1.go to pinterest.com 2.make sure, you are not logged in. 3.search 'food' With all the money they have raised, can't they figure out a solution to this most juvenile of spams!!! It of-course doesn't matter since they still managed a $1.5BN
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by vagarwa 14y ago
quite sad. People don't have the time, and rely on the science writers' abilities to report accurately. Maybe there should be a GitHub for news stories where volunteers can point out and correct the most egregious of quantitative 'errors'.
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Does it matter if gas-electric hybrid car maker Fisker Fails?(technologyreview.com)
1 points by vagarwa 15y ago|0 comments
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by vagarwa 15y ago
post facto analysis - easy. (business types need jobs too!) predicting consumer behavior - hard.
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by vagarwa 15y ago
How does it effect Per Vices, the Y-combinator graduate?