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Interesting concept. Where did you source the data from? Are they from public records or Wikipedia?

Very cool design and concept. I loved how you used Bootstrap for this.

Bait and switch model is a pretty old concept (promo offers, free trials, etc in consumer goods).

I'm an active Quora user and I feel irritated by the whole flood of reviews that is polluting my feed. There is also a huge internal rage against the feature. It is like turning un…

That's a good feedback, rmason. It is a niche model that could be added to the article.

If you are a solo entrepreneur who is running a website part-time and furthering your personal brand, then advertising is not a bad idea. However, it is different if you are workin…

Thanks chewxy. The only issue is that advertising is getting increasingly sophisticated and contextual. The big boys (Facebook and Google) have way too much data and crowd out the …

As the 4 columns show, productivity & hours worked go diametrically opposite (negatively correlated). All the countries in the most working list are also in the least productive li…

Thanks Alpha. That is great info. However, I tried all these tools and none of them are quite good. Blackboard has very few startups (most in their list are publicly traded cos) Li…

I have been using Crunchbase for some time and feel there is a high noise-to-signal ratio. There are too many companies that qualify neither as a startup nor as a product company. …

Out of curiosity, what do those 3 founders really do? If they don't develop products or sell the products or get the funding they have no business to be sitting as founders. Many n…

If you get a competitive pay, try to hang on more and see if you can turn around the company. Tell the founders about your concerns and see if they will let you get added as a co-f…

There are three essential things that are important in running a startup: Focus, Focus and Focus. ;-) At a startup, the entrepreneurs could do build a million different things and …

At this stage of your career, you should think more about the experience added by the job than at the numerical salary number. If you work with the right people with right ideas, t…