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by ioda 10y ago
After having failed at my first startup, and having partially succeeded in second, I couldn't agree more on those two points. The debt accrued on my first startup still haunts me. And I really wish, I slept more and worked out more du
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by ioda 10y ago
To me, Pomodoro sucks. You need a pomodoro only if you do not enjoy doing something. The days I tried, I felt like in jail.
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by ioda 10y ago
I do not use that system. It was more like a framework that naturally formed based on experiences. And no. I am no where near to being successful. But I am happy though, since I have partially succeeded in Point 3 & point 4
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by ioda 10y ago
To be honest, I never succeeded with goals. Those things that happen naturally , happens. Your comment made me self reflect, and I realised that , except point 4, nothing happened at my will. Point 4 happened because I found something that
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by ioda 10y ago
I am Indian. (I used to work for Oracle). If I were to hire, given everything else is equal , I would prefer an Indian to a non-Indian. You can attribute it to cultural bias, or whatever. But hardly 'everything else' is equal. I h
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by ioda 10y ago
We landed on our first paying customer on a product that we had been working for more than a year and half. And many more sign ups later turned profitable too. And about to release a major upgrade in the first weeks of 2017. The down side
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by ioda 10y ago
At http://www.reportdash.com we use backbone with backbone layout manager and jade. We have been able to design a pretty robust report and dashboard builder with just a single front-end developer. Never once did I regret the cho
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by ioda 10y ago
As someone who runs a startup,here are some personal observations. I would say, a PM has to understand the user needs, and drive the product. The former has got two parts 1. Understanding the user needs which the user can articulate 2. Unde
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by ioda 10y ago
Fully agree. I started working on it!
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by ioda 10y ago
Yup. Truly understand that. Shall mail you a demo account. We are still work in progress, and many touch points are not the way we really wanted. A demo account is up there in our priority list.
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by ioda 10y ago
Shameless plug : We have been building http://www.reportdash.com with a similar target market. Datastudio appeared to be our startup killer in the beginning. But I guess, we may narrowly escape owing to the usability advantage,
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by ioda 10y ago
On Education let me quote a popular writer from my place , Kamala Surayya (Madhavikutty) - "I feel formal education here makes mediocrity's out of everybody. I don't think any genius can survive caught in the machine of forma
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by ioda 10y ago
The best I have read from her so far is this- http://www.foundersatwork.com/1/post/2012/10/what-goes-wrong...
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by ioda 10y ago
My Journey In search of purpose 1. Hated working for others. One day manager refused to grant hike (in salary). Googled for a resignation letter, and mailed him the first one found. 2. Didn't know what to do. Decided to do freelancing.
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by ioda 10y ago
I have no problem in wishing to be rich. I have no problem is wishing to be powerful. I have a problem only when I want to be richer than someone else. Why on earth do I want to define my 'need' looking at someone else. And if I d
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by ioda 10y ago
"We all want exact same thing" - May be, but not every one want that 'same thing' to the same degree. Any commendable achievement in one field is often at the expense of something else. May be I want to become rich, may
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by ioda 10y ago
"Everybody is a Genius. But If You Judge a Fish by Its Ability to Climb a Tree, It Will Live Its Whole Life Believing that It is Stupid."- Einstein "Mediocrity" arises only when compared. And comparison is plain stupid.
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Show HN: ReportDash – Reports and Dashboards for Digital Marketers Made Easy(reportdash.com)
12 points by ioda 11y ago|1 comments
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Why we built (or rather, build) Adfinch?(blog.adfinch.com)
2 points by ioda 12y ago|0 comments
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by ioda 12y ago
When will this be launching?