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dbkbali

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About dbkbali

Former, investment banker, emerging markets financial advisor, and computer geek. Current founder of Whatdo.asia which will hopefully be launching soon!

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    Great article and as a former investment banker so true. Good laugh reading the comments, I speculate mostly from insecure startup employees, executing their "post purchase rationa…

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    Comment #7223298

    Entertaining to read all the comments on this thread. Great article and as a former investment banker, yes so true, really no difference from, what I observe for SV startup acceler…

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    Comment #4056931

    Since when has number of free downloads in the app store been a measure of business model viability? The fact is they are pursuing destructive means to grow their business, as an i…

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    Comment #4056777

    Reading between the lines given the complete lack of similarity between the names, it seems to me you are grasping at straws because your own business model is not viable. If I wer…

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    Comment #3997518

    The underwriter has no legal obligation or "duty" to guarantee or support the original issue price. Definitely, they have an economic and business incentive to ensure the price sta…

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    Comment #3994593

    There is another possibility and that is dealers were desperately trying to maintain facebooks price above the Ipo price, especially given the significant lower fees taken on this …

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    Comment #3679842

    Great Apple, do no evil! How can we get better coverage for Asia?

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    Comment #3679635

    Yes I am wondering whether it is that much different than including a concern module, at the end of the day you still have to test the code. Interesting approach though.

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    Comment #3598400

    I didn't even know this existed, Anyone know who founded this org?

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    Comment #3553653

    A very interesting and timely article coming right at the time when I am reevaluating the launch functionality for my Asian "yelp-like" startup what2do.asia and after just having a…

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    Comment #3521757

    After I read this it really makes me want to find an alternative to gmail, its too bad the main focus is diluting from being the best at search to becoming a social vehicle. If oth…

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    Google Privacy -Great article and maybe creates opportunity

    After I read this it made me think wouldn't it be great if i could use cloud storage ie. Dropbox or other cloud networks to store my email and not be reliant on google

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    Comment #3480514

    Nice review made me want to go back and read it again

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    Comment #3385118

    Everything but my .asia domains anyone know a good registrar for them

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    Comment #3359549

    An obvious conclusion if your definition of design is "how something looks". I would suggest that your attitude would doom any startup relying on a human to machine interface to fa…

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    Comment #3115149

    I think some good ant-trust regulatory lawyers would have a field day with this. But one would have to have deep enough pockets to pay the legal bills!