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by zaidf 16y ago
Especially when "screwing over" means settling a lawsuit with gazillions of dollars. I agree, I don't see much of a similarity between startups and risking death--literally. It seems tantalizing and there is lots of vague overlap in attit
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by zaidf 16y ago
So my logic is faulty based on arrests that weren't reported, are unverifiable, and as far as I know don't exist? Yep, it's faulty because you're assuming that just because you're not aware of something, that something doesn't exist. It
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by zaidf 16y ago
With the amount of precaution they take for space exploration, I'd think a lot of things are more dangerous, fatality-wise, than space exploration.
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by zaidf 16y ago
I don't, purely because local merchants are very, very brand conscious and suspicious of new brands. It is why they keep giving their business to Yellow Pages and to newspapers. It's why Google's had such a hard time cracking the local ma
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by zaidf 16y ago
The bad guy in me sees an opportunity to 'googlebomb' competitors using fake bad reviews In the spam world, it's very common. They call it joe-jobbing . Since spam websites typically have to be hosted on "bulletproof hosts"(hosts that wo
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by zaidf 16y ago
To prove your logic faulty, you just have to look at all the arrests for similar crimes where there was no NYT or any news article.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Why should merchants give Groupon 50% of the face value of coupon, if their competitor will do the same for 25%? And the next one at 10%? Brand. It's why people pay for bottled water vs. free tap water. It's why Groupon can argue they can
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by zaidf 16y ago
Dang, I get to Mumbai on the 13th after five loong years :) Too bad I'll be missing from this meet up but hopefully we'll have another soon after.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Fair point. There may have been very few, if any, parties willing to pay what Goog paid for YT. From that angle, it hardly looks like a steal. But if you think about YT's growth and strategic fit since the acquisition, it looks like a steal
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by zaidf 16y ago
Google's long struggled to break into local. At 2.5B, Groupon's going to look like an even bigger steal than YouTube.
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by zaidf 16y ago
This had more to do with me just having gotten hooked to programming than the book. Still, the book VB 6 Step by Step totally rocked and contributed to me pulling all nighters programming random stuff in middle school.
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by zaidf 16y ago
Say hi to random strangers so you can make friends (even though you're introverted and doing this makes you look like a fool) Genuinely curious: are you saying this as a matter or philosophy or did you try this and come out of it feeling
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by zaidf 16y ago
Its hard for me to find any piece of advice that 'messed' up my life per say. From the sounds of it, it seems like I'm blaming some advice when I should be accepting majority of the blame myself.
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Using the Rihanna Formula to calculate Twitter and Google Buzz Valuations (o2h2.com)
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by zaidf 16y ago
Hey Car Industry, how about just making the iPod connectors a default with the cars you ship? You'd think after a decade of iPods it'd be a given.
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by zaidf 16y ago
The Aviator
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by zaidf 16y ago
Because seemingly people with money seem to value it more than they value the proven company.
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by zaidf 16y ago
What part?
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by zaidf 16y ago
Along the same lines, non-reactiveness can also work and can even be fun. There is this one kid on campus who I've run into a few times. The kid apparently knows every brown kid--except me. The first time we met he asked me if I was a fresh
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by zaidf 16y ago
I was bullied quite a bit when I started 1st grade at a new school. Luckily I had two older brothers at the school. A couple times I pointed out the dudes responsible and they would go have a word with them and that'd take care of it. I gue
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by zaidf 16y ago
$400/hour sounds expensive to anybody. But $32,000 might be cheap as far as project budgets go. I think the use cases you describe are very different from most of us. You said you could spend upto 3 days just working on a proposal. For so
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by zaidf 16y ago
Thus the emphasis on a lot
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by zaidf 16y ago
I don't think YC cares a lot about which companies are profitable. YC ideally wants homeruns. And homerun companies are rarely profitable because they are too busy growing. Take YouTube, Facebook etc. They all sacrificed profitability for
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by zaidf 16y ago
You shouldn't do something really stupid? Cop out:) Ok, so I've pretty much done this to some insane extremes. Thing is, it's a lot easy to do it as a game than as part of life. Example: go tell a girl she is ugly as hell. A good % will ask
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by zaidf 16y ago
I've used it a bunch over the past 5+ years. Payer does not have to register. The money is just deposited into their accounts, though it could take upto a week especially if you pay using your bank acct and not credit card. There should be
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by zaidf 16y ago
Xoom.com
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by zaidf 16y ago
Tiny correction: so it was the facebook ad which my brother saw which then made it to me; not springwise as you guys credit in the interview :)
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by zaidf 16y ago
I posted this on HN. I'm always interested in how messages spread, so here's the breakdown AFAIK: 1. manpacks guys make the product. 2. post facebook ad 3. my brother see fb ad(nice targeting?) 4. bro shares link with me on gtalk 5. i post
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by zaidf 16y ago
I launched http://tekbob.com :)
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by zaidf 16y ago
Sorry. Halloween fail :)

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