rgovind

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by rgovind 8y ago
The post on why medium.com could have been profitable as a lifestyle business but since it took VC money, it should resort to spamming users with recommendations etc
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Ask HN: Does your startup need marketing help?
1 points by rgovind 9y ago|0 comments
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by rgovind 9y ago
If it is ok for managers to ask "Describe a time when you failed", it is fair game for interviewee to ask tough questions.
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by rgovind 9y ago
And you can never be sure what questions will be asked from you during an interview, especially, since the only thing job description says is "Rockstar frontend Engineer"
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by rgovind 9y ago
Since Greg was CXO at blekko, I would say for whoever is making search engine, its important!
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by rgovind 9y ago
Yes. In today's search engines, I cannot give you a blacklist and say filter out these results. If I am looking for tutorials, I cannot say no video results. If I am looking for market research, I cannot filter out news websites from t
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by rgovind 10y ago
can you please add an email at which we can contact you? I don't see one in the profile.
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Ask HN: Developer friendly credit card?
2 points by rgovind 10y ago|5 comments
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by rgovind 10y ago
i.e. you can be both investor and employee in the company. But you have to run payroll which means company must be generating money or be VC funded
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by rgovind 10y ago
Government runs hospitals in every town but only poor people use them(though they put up with bribes here). Rich and middle class typically use private health care as its generally better. Private health care in cities is excellent even by
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by rgovind 10y ago
If you go cheaper than that and wait, somebody else might snag them up!
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by rgovind 10y ago
For some of us in Bay area, we pay $5000 in rent, utilities, day care etc. I, by and large can't optimize on these things. I can only optimize on groceries, restaurant eating, vacation/weekend outings and few things like that. So,
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by rgovind 10y ago
W.r.t askwhale.com, seems like it is a mashup of Quora/Reddit and video based Q&A. Given that there is greater friction in video compared to text based Q&A sites, who would be interested in contributing this?
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by rgovind 10y ago
I find it quiet surprising that none of these startup classes teach how to do market research and market sizing. Yet when a new batch of startups demo every six weeks, the first thing they talk of is, size of opportunity. Market opportunity
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by rgovind 10y ago
Lets say you have an ecommerce firm. When a user is browsing an item(diapers?), at a mimimum he/she expects to see images, description, reviews, cost, tax, delivery dates, promotions, related items. In addition to what you see on fro
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by rgovind 10y ago
I believe Quora and Facebook tried it in various forms though there you could reach out just about anybody. I assume 21.co will do same thing going forward.
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by rgovind 10y ago
or a way for you to get into feedback from management. If you directly apply, you will never know why management did not pick up your resume.
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by rgovind 10y ago
Principal engineer in Linkedin, Google, FB etc?
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by rgovind 10y ago
An easy way is to walk up to a QA or engineer, tell him "We are reviewing some sessions by customer and we keep getting this error". can you please help me replay customer sessions? This is an executive escalation?
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by rgovind 10y ago
Can I use it for audio streaming as well?
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by rgovind 10y ago
Is real shortage possible? If what I am willing to pay is limitless, won't people catch up, learn the skills and shortage willl be gone?
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by rgovind 10y ago
There is bigger question here. How many people are still make money from selling compiler/language tools? Like, write a static analyzer, or php optimizer or sell a Swift library for linux application or a language-X to language-Y tra
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by rgovind 10y ago
Its at least a structured analysis. Thanks for teaching something today.
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by rgovind 10y ago
I would hire a career coach. One idea I have been kicking around is bi-weekly scrums for those who want to go up the ladder. You will go to the scrum, explain what you have done in last two weeks and explain what you will do in next two wee
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Who is your career coach?
1 points by rgovind 10y ago|0 comments
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by rgovind 10y ago
Text hands down. We can easily scan and skip parts that we do not need. Videos are such a drain on time and are boring. Its hard to go back and forth.
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by rgovind 10y ago
Per month? Per year?
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by rgovind 10y ago
Interviews with VCs and Entrepreneurs are dime a dozen nowadays. What I see missing is resources which help technical people think about business aspects. How does one understand/analyze competition, market size, customers etc. I reall
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by rgovind 10y ago
I have a feeling Mentor had a finger in my pies. EDA, Embedded, automotive, compilers, PCB and what not. I feel Synopsys and Cadence are more focused.
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by rgovind 10y ago
Why would this happen given that semiconductor industry itself is shrinking? I used to work in EDA until recently, but since money in semiconductor is dwindling, people like me have no interest in pursuing ideas in EDA

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