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by eterno 17y ago
I didnt really mean it as a side project. I understand it won't work that way. Just keep it on the side till you are able to raise more funds, or organize from other sources (job,consulting etc.) to give you a decent runway.
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by eterno 17y ago
Thanks for being so open and honest about the whole thing. You said, if you were profitable, you wouldn't be shutting down. But if you think there should be a way to make social payments work then don't you think its just a matter of time w
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by eterno 17y ago
Typically engineers gravitate to the point of work. Its only the initial germination which matters. There are more engineers in Bangalore from outside, than locals. Probably same is true for silicon valley.
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by eterno 17y ago
Almost a downer, I didnt think that tony was the kind of CEO who would sell out. Somebody tell me it was the VC's.
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by eterno 17y ago
Think what you will regret. 1. Building a startup and not falling in love. 2. Falling in love and screwing up a startup. Though both don't have to be exclusive, I bet 2. is a better choice. Also you have your whole life for startups, wheras
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by eterno 17y ago
Cool stuff. I think Anreessen gets the whole startup thing a lot more than the current crop of investment bankers.
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by eterno 17y ago
listened to free willy ost on way to office and then came the sad news. RIP MJ.You were as genius as humans come.
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by eterno 17y ago
Couldnt DISAGREE more. The advice is extremely banal bordering on common sense but most importantly discounts the fact that a lot of startups are built not to solve any existing problem but perhaps to just better an existing solution. The s
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by eterno 17y ago
Spot on and beautifully put. On a related note, it never made sense to me that some first time entrepreneurs give it all up and become VC's.
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by eterno 17y ago
I think arxiv is a great start but still seems to be kind of internet add-on to the old way rather than being a rethink from the ground up to the research business. I liked the "Cite as" feature, but there are fundamental issues which I thi
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by eterno 17y ago
slightly offtopic, but I am fundamentally opposed to this journal-conferences monopoly on published research and the related profiteering by the likes of springer. Its like the newspaper industry which has outlived its business model. Someo
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by eterno 17y ago
Seems like Google is playing catch-up to yahoo for once. This has searchmonkey written all over it. Yahoo though, seems to be still without its mojo so cant see it capitalizing on this thing - even assuming it goes big.
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by eterno 17y ago
mind-boggling stuff. Bezos is a killing machine - and there was a time when people wrote amazon off in the bust of 2000 - 'selling books online ??? - wasnt getting rid of print the whole point of the net anyways'
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by eterno 17y ago
Exactly, and for those guys who do not get into YC, they still have the option of getting a 'prototype of YC' - which in your own words is almost the same as YC. I am not saying YC is bad - far from it - I am myself a big fan. The only thin
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by eterno 17y ago
Is it just me, or do real entrepreneurs need to be less excited about this YC interview thingy. If you care so much for third party approval from PG and folks (not that they are not nice/smart ppl) but then just go to a B-school dude and ge
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by eterno 17y ago
Hiring is extremely random and for most part very hard to do fairly. Bet even if someone like bill gates or the google founders applied to some of the bigger companies - chances are they will get turned down from a few of them. Though, I th
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Ask HN: Open source mobile ad server recommendations anyone ?
1 points by eterno 17y ago|0 comments
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by eterno 18y ago
Please fix irrelevant results. Search for 'rfid tutorial' gives a Java JDBC page at the top. Also, layout is not a differentiation so please stick to google style and stop wasting time on it.
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by eterno 18y ago
He is dead serious and that is an incredibly honest and accurate piece of advice.
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by eterno 18y ago
This is one of the most brilliant startup stories I have read in a while. Im not a big calcanis fan and dont think too highly of mahalo, but the amount of wisdom and insight in this post left me reading this over and over again for almost a
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by eterno 18y ago
Po Bronson's "What to do with your life" is a great read. This article though seems to be full of fluff and about reading too much based on post-facto news. Sabeer is definitely smart, but he also definitely got incredibly lucky, and a lot
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by eterno 18y ago
I have also come to the same conclusion independently. You need a sounding board and a source of moral support absolutely. This is best done by a co-founder. However, it CAN also be done by someone who is not a co-founder and more of an adv
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by eterno 18y ago
Totally agree that having a co-founder helps, but totally DISAGREE that either that is the solution to your cold-feet, or that is absolute required to do a startup. Also, I think there is little reason to believe that either bill gates or
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by eterno 18y ago
I think photo-sharing services need to verticalize and create niches. I see a clear case for a photo-sharing service specifically designed to host high-resolution images (big size) images which are rapidly becoming the norm with higher reso
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by eterno 18y ago
I wouldnt say so. Even with that one user and thousands of failed users you might be on the verge of evolving your product to better suit market needs and gain usage. The biggest truth about entrepreneurship is that no-one knows. There is n
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Ask HN. How does distribution work for iPhone Web app.
5 points by eterno 18y ago|1 comments
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by eterno 18y ago
This is an amazing writeup. Incredibly honest. It would be great if you could do an as honest writeup after some time(possible a couple of months). I would be interested in thoughts along two lines: 1. Maybe working Google will not be that
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by eterno 18y ago
Also anything else will NOT work. Bookmarking will definitely not. Noone uses bookmarks.
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by eterno 18y ago
I think distribution is the key. You built a good product and ppl like it, that does not mean they will start using it. (Welcome to the real world, by the way). To make it very clear, there are only 4 things you can do to tackle distributio
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by eterno 18y ago
There was a time when "change the world" used to mean something. Go out and feed a few homeless,poor ppl, but please dont make the 1 millionth todo list app and claim to "change the world". Nice design though.

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