rachnaspace

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Comment · 14 years ago
thanks!
Comment · 15 years ago
Comment · 15 years ago
We'd love to get feedback on our application as well, but we're not based in either of those places. Can any alum review it remotely? - over email, phone..?
Comment · 15 years ago
If you're a technical founder, with some interest and understanding on how to create some buzz around your app and get in users - I'd say, you don't really need a business / non-technical founder early on. Though, at some stage when you start scaling up, you will need someone (could be technical or non-technical) who can help on the business side. Andrew Chen's recent post has some good points on this -

http://andrewchenblog.com/2011/02/05/stanford-cs-major-seeks...

"What do geeks really need help with? It’s very simple- there’s a class of purely business-related stuff that adds value:

selling stuff and making money getting partnerships and marketing/distribution of the product funding the company scalable marketing/monetization strategy (ad arb / viral / freemium / etc.) team recruiting, particularly of other engineers and disciplines (not other MBAs please) If you are an expert at any of the above and can show it, then there’s a lot more value. Very few business folks, particularly newly-minted MBAs (with the exception of Stanford folks) or industry-switchers can really deliver on these though, which is why they’re not bringing much to the table.

Then there’s a class of things that are much more product-oriented, and while it overlaps with the skillset of some engineers, if you have great skills in any of the following, they are clearly valuable too:

design, especially visual design UI/frontend skills – HTML/CSS/JS – even if mediocre! copywriting within the product for help text, marketing, etc user research and customer development usability testing."

Comment · 15 years ago
I believe there's some discussion around Andrew Chen's post going on, on hacker news - wanted to share my thoughts over there...couldn't find it, so putting it up separately here.
Comment · 16 years ago
>Big companies will still be there if you fail, why live with the regret?>>

Totally agree!

Comment · 16 years ago
It could be... my experience has been pretty good so far. I used Reliance USB even in smaller cities and it worked great... even in a moving train in the middle of nowhere when I was traveling.
Comment · 16 years ago
Internet should not be a problem anywhere you travel within India. There are internet USB cards available with pretty decent speed & connectivity. Here are a few - http://www.reliancenetconnect.co.in/ http://www.tataphoton.com/

With internet connectivity, you can travel to different cities and experience life there, rather than being based in only one city... just a suggestion.

Once you have decided on the city / cities where you want to stay while in India, for the accommodation, you can even post at HN google groups in India (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1885605) to see if any member can help suggest a good option for stay. And yeah, as someone suggested, check out airbnb as well.

Safe & fun travels!

Comment · 16 years ago
I agree, very simple to use and allows for A/B testing too.
Comment · 16 years ago
Thanks for sharing your perspective Dave! Looking forward to 500startups' program.

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