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also what the difference between zumodrive and dropbox (other yc co.)????
exactly: and BTW whats the difference between dropbox and zumo?
Re:Ask YC: Do you guys think a think tank startup would work? on Thursday January 08, 2009 @12:34PM (#425226)
what's your email?
Re:Secrets of success from Google co-founder Larry Page on Tuesday January 06, 2009 @01:17PM (#422197)
original link: http://specials.rediff.com/money/2009/jan/05slide1-want-to-s...

though pg should have posted source link with his note, i dont think that even rediff.com is the copyright owner - to what i understand pg did it in the good faith to help HN readers and that's what it matters ...

Re:Ask HN: What are the most in-need charities? on Wednesday December 24, 2008 @06:52PM (#409254)
Choose your own by simple search:

http://www.charitynavigator.org

all news headlines here are part of the press releases anyway - also there are HN readers who only read news here so its important for them to know the latest...

Ask YC: What do you do when unemployed?

Recession and lay-offs are on the way and i just wonder what do people do to be creative and motivated: reading, writing, learning new skills, try to be self-employed, develop a web-app etc, Yoga.What do you do?

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long story short, you need 4 things :

1. Determination: as pg always says that most successful people are those who're determined to bring their dream come true.

2. Code: somehow you have to manage to get the source code in your control. ,

3. Backup plan: make plan-b ready for damage control anticipated by your partners leaving project.

4. Speed: buddy, you need speed to roll-out to deal with competition.

Ask YC: Help regarding catch 22 situation for choosing startup's revenue model?

There are basically 2 options - one is charging the users/customers (for your product/service) and the second is charging the advertisers.Its kind of catch 22 situation, if you decide to charge customers then your customer growth will be slow, and if you distribute your product/service for free and depend upon the ad revenue then your customer growth will be faster but the revenue growth will...

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Re:Who is The Next Yahoo! Ceo? on Sunday June 15, 2008 @12:56PM (#218112)
i dont understand why mike, icahn and other narrow minded people cant see the whole picture —- i remember michael dell once made similar comments about apple …. look what happened, today apple is much more valuable than dell … if micahel dell (who was an entrepreneur himself) can go wrong then who are these people who have never created anything as big as yahoo …. people should give yahoo and jerry&co. a break and let them run the company the way they want and if you’re not comfy then sell your stocks and run (like a mice) , u will still profit as stock prices has gone up in last 6 months. What i understand is Yahoo has too many money making properties and it can still make more prop and money out of it … following is my questions to all greedy people:

1. please explain me why cant yahoo make money from the text based ad (where they are not that strong) by temporarily leasing it to google - isn’t it a smart move where you make money from both kind of ads (text and display) from the 2 best ad systems?

2. why did yahoo made deal only for north-american market and not for other markets which are much bigger than NA? do you think that jerry is stupid that he is keeping other lucrative market i.e BRIC (brazil, russia, china, india) with him? - cant u see how intelligent he is that he is may be trying to roll out his strategy in these markets and eventually make a strong position?

3. do you think that the whole board of directors of yahoo is stupid to support jerry?

4. dont you know that the biggest loser (monetarily) is jerry himself, and if he is taking risk and let go millions $$ (for short term) then there has to be something in his kitty (the strategy) that he dont want to disclose it right now?, and may be this is the reason why the board of directors are supporting him because they know this internal confidential strategy ... there is always something called trade-secret that you shouldn’t give away no matter how much pressure builds on you by stupid shareholders …

I think if anyone who disagrees with Jerry then they should either sell their stock (and run) OR buy more stock (get the majority) and kick him out - if u dont want to do either then stop making foolish judgments ... everyone is not greedy - there is something like loyalty and integrity and that counts at the end of the day and i think Jerry's loyalty and integrity towards Yahoo is unquestionable.

yahoo made a smart move - problem creators now have to calm down for a while - it will give some time to breath and move their strategy as a success ... kind of wait and watch.

Ask HN: Is there any other web-business as easy as online dating and blogging?

I was studying about the online businesses that has lowest amount of hassles; one that doesn't require anything other than building a web-app and your business is on with money coming in ... no purchase of any goods, no inventory, no shipping, lowest customer service headache, no returns, no coordination for selling 3rd party stuffs etc.Do you know any business that is as easy as online dating...

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home-makers: home and home & shopping and shopping & internet and internet :-)

doctors: hospital and hospital and hospitals :-)

insurance agent: home, office, home, office and home (all homes are other people's home) :-)

bloggers: home and coffee shops and library and barnes & noble :-)

taxi driver: no home; only taxi :-)

i agree with #6 - this is something like dating a person who speaks your language so that there is this comfort of sharing things while commuting - this also creates instant connection between 2 people, an ice-breaker.
i never knew that you don't even need to be a U.S. citizen ... is there any difference between delaware S-corp and nevada S-corp??
Re:iPod gives birth to a heroine on Friday May 23, 2008 @05:39PM (#198431)
wow! apple can now make money out of this from pixar :)
agreed - all the above stuffs helps you to build new products but then you need customers to buy it and if they dont put money in your pocket because they want something that is cross platform and open source then these stuff won't sell or help you to survive. MS has to change the attitude and the path - just like they have to bow down to ODF couple of days a go they have to do the same with all their products.
the history repeats itself - what microsoft did to ibm - google and apple are doing to microsoft - so to survive ms has to do the same what ibm did for survival - i.e. change in leadership, change in vision and change in path.... unless this happens ms is on the way Non-MS.
i noticed that u r new here, dont worry, eventually u will learn freedom of expression.
Re:Ask YC: Nonprofit funding on Thursday May 22, 2008 @01:15PM (#197304)
i like the idea of having wealthy people on board - i have personally experienced that this helps a lot ... also this will create awareness amongst the hi-society people, who sometime just for the sake of status give donations to the same cause/organization.

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