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by zaidf 16y ago
StumbleUpon may be? They just raised 17M...and seem to enjoy buying stuff back.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Stumbleupon?
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by zaidf 16y ago
Paying $90 for an inter-US money transfer is a bit outrageous so they priced out.
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by zaidf 16y ago
The most important service: instant money transfer (mostly) irrespective of physical location. I had one use-case this week where paypal would not work. I needed to withdraw the amount I was to be paid by my client and paypal has a $400/day
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by zaidf 16y ago
I would think along the same lines. Then recently I was doing contract work that included ability to upload and preview video files. My client had a very average vps and was not willing to spend much on having me install/test a bunch of pac
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by zaidf 16y ago
children generally cost money and don't produce it, even later in life. Not in all cultures. In mine, kids are expected to grow up and help parents retire and take care of them in old age. From our eyes, seeing a parent off to a retirem
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by zaidf 16y ago
Pooling the resources is more likely to be efficient. May be on paper. But at least the way it works in the US, the so-called fund(aka social security) that is supposed to help you out in old-age is pretty much bankrupt.
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by zaidf 16y ago
What's so wrong about it?
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by zaidf 16y ago
Pretty much. I personally prefer directly helping my folks than doing so via a middle party(the gov).
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by zaidf 16y ago
May be its a cultural thing. I know a few couples in India with no kids and more they age, more their life self-admittedly sucks. Then again, the culture I grew up in sees kids as an investment. The investment pays off when kids grow up and
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by zaidf 16y ago
I'm reading the title and thinking "if it's gonna take a nuclear bomb to ruin my startup, it must be doing really well!".
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by zaidf 16y ago
I can see how it can be more convenient. But how is it more useful if only 2 people use it?
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by zaidf 16y ago
It's a product with very little traction and an inferior experience to what's already in the market(twitter, fb). Unfortunately pockets of traction for a product as old as Buzz means very little. Social for big guys like fb and google is ab
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by zaidf 16y ago
Buzz symbolizes everything wrong with Google's social strategy. They need to move on. Linking to dead properties and adding a few fields isn't going to fix social.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Do I see a "Buzz" tab? shakeshead
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by zaidf 16y ago
[citation needed]
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by zaidf 16y ago
The day I built my first VB6 program ranks as one of the happiest days--circa 6th grade! At the time, I couldn't believe I can build a calculator that looked just like the Windows calculator.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Is this a happy, content guy? I donno, but being "content" is the last thing I expect to find in entrepreneurs. And as far as happiness goes, doesn't it largely depend on what yard stick you're using to measure it? I am not saying they do
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by zaidf 16y ago
Paint?
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by zaidf 16y ago
I just can't imagine how this can end well for Demand Media when they are an update away from losing a vast majority of their traffic.
891.
by zaidf 16y ago
Now you're talking :)
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by zaidf 16y ago
What about charging people to find out who has a crush on them? The idea is, if someone really cares, the other party should be ok with them paying to find out. Give the user 3 free guesses as to who may have a crush on them. Then ask th
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by zaidf 16y ago
Yep, marketing and nuances. But I'm a little surprised that you pivoted from an original and successful idea to an unoriginal and derivative idea. Your priorities are not aligned with the developer's, me feels. You are worried about bein
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by zaidf 16y ago
Is the solution really FDA or no FDA? Without knowing a lot, I doesn't seem too hard to cite goods that have come from the FDA.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Semantics. Almost all problems related to healthcare have their root cause at something other than healthcare directly. For example, defensive medicine can be traced to the way our legal system works. It's a healthcare and ____ problem(i
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by zaidf 16y ago
My siblings and I take a pill 3x day for life for a genetic condition. The pill(colchicine) cost pennies in its generic form. It isn't a pill that was made in a lab after millions in research. So there were plenty of generic brands availabl
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by zaidf 16y ago
If Hotels.com had launched on HN, regularly had founders and employees interact with members here, then I think Hotels.com too would get upvoted similarly when they achieved such feats. There are so many YC companies that if every YC compan
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by zaidf 16y ago
Enjoy the ride :) You may have hit the google lottery! We launched our music start-up(now dead) and it was getting few k uniques/day. Then overnight we start seeing thousands of visitors from Thailand. And each day--literally--the number wo
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by zaidf 16y ago
This introduces a new way to get kicked out of a walled garden: become too successful. New way? Being too successful is probably one of the most common causes for being kicked out of walled gardens, usually under the pretext of "policy
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by zaidf 16y ago
I think the new blogs can do both, just turn the dial more towards startups and more dev/tech. Not unless the founders of the blog make a very explicit decision to pass on financial benefits to continue covering start-ups. Like you said,

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