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alagu

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About alagu

Co-founder, Peoplebox

Earlier: Askmile, Practo, Markupwand.com(YCS12), Interviewstreet(YCS11), Zynga, Yahoo!, NIT Trichy, India

alagu@alagu.net

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    Thanks. Let me use a quote from Managers-Tool podcast to explain our rationale about 1-on-1s. 1-on-1, the most powerful thing we can recommend to any managers in the world - To Sit…

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    I couldn’t agree more. Building that “radical candor” is the most important element to have any meaningful conversation or even relationships. I’ve personally found One on ones as …

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    Thanks for your kind comment and the feedback. That’s a great idea. When we created the categories, the idea was to bucket these questions based on certain type of information only…

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    We faced a similar problem. We've got a strong 1-on-1 culture in our startup but often struggle with what to talk so we created an ultimate list of one-on-one questions (500+) with…

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    It is quite nice of you to give option to disable affiliate links - though I guess no sane person would want to disable them.

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    Slite customer here! We've been happy with Slite but could be more fast & offline support would be awesome. For project management we've been using Trello and it is so far so good.…

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    Culturegrade | Bangalore, India | Fullstack Engineer, Lead Engineer | Salary + equity | Full-time | Onsite | https://culturegrade.com/ Culturegrade is building a next-generation em…

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    Can someone share the mentioned NYT Article mentioned?

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    I love what GV is doing. Future of VC is not about giving value only to their portfolio companies but also to the entire community. YC has been doing this for a while (Essays, Star…

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    This happens because of lack of trust in the new driver - like in real life. When you see that the new driver is driving well, you'd forget it and start reading a book instead.

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    Honestly, I don't think building tech here is the hard part. It is finding the right audience (Elderly people & Kids who want to learn English)

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    You could try http://www.hackerrank.com/

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    Comment #7691684

    Nice app! Could you give some more promo codes? All of them are used.

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    I think it is because of the expectations set by Tom (mojombo). http://tom.preston-werner.com/2011/11/22/open-source-everyth... He mentioned not to opensource anything that represe…

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    Congratulations Sam!

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    This is great! I've started using this. Since this is being hosted on appspot and you'd be proxying significant traffic - I think you would cross your limits soon.