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.. large number of people..

There are lot of people who fall for the encouragement from PG and such and take risks without being aware of the expected financial impact. Read through comments here and there ar…

I find it wrong that the author is using other successful companies as examples that they were built on "belief". No, airbnb founders did not believe. In fact, Mark Zuckerberg did …

Can you elaborate? I am not questioning your commentary, but genuinely interested to know more about what you mean there.

The dates in this dataset are "decision" date, not the application date. In that year, there was a fast forward movement in backlog of India's GC application... Green cards have a …

How do you define "sell"? Adsense and Adwords - can very well be argued as selling the distilled gist mined from troves of data collected from your search history, email, photos, a…

Wouldn't high-quality-CMS be important to bring down the cost of publishing-- to the point of determining the sustainability of the publication itself? The established media compan…

Here is direct quora link: http://www.quora.com/I-just-joined-an-early-stage-startup-as... In jest, this is what I was thinking of sharing: http://lmgtfy.com/?q=%22You+should+get+o…

Have you considered diversifying your skills? Mobile and big data, for example, are areas with lot more demand than there is supply.

The allocation of visas for exceptional talent is surprisingly skewed. Only about 6% of 1 Million green cards issued each year are issued to people who are here for their skills. R…

This is recognized as a problem, and is an issue that immigration reforms attempt to address. Every company ends up competing on "H1B lottery" with large body shops. So a startup w…

That is NOT an accurate analogy.. to make it analogous, you need at least two fixes: a) the person needs not simply see from window, but to get into your basement from breaking a d…

many congrats. i got curious what you do.. visited your site, browser threw a security exception. http://cl.ly/image/263R2V1o100F

Did anyone understand why logging calls on only problem machine had different fsync behavior than normal machines?

A good alternative for YC to consider is to change to a 'continuous' mode.. where you incubate companies on 1st Tue of every month. The companies in a batch are already in variety …

no doubt you can build lots of interesting things (including recommendations), if people are giving you UGC. question above comment was asking was why would people generate that co…

but look at our personal expense.. how little do we spend on life insurance premium vs. entertainment? That's a reference point for what we would consider as value of protecting a …

My favorite nextdoor story is when it helped neighbors find chicken poop https://twitter.com/kabragovind/status/483721368710963200

that is how it begins.. early signs of FB was killing MySpace was back when it was a thing that kids in a handful of colleges used. These early signs are important to recognize and…

To be fair, that's not caste system.. better phrase would be income inequality or unskilled labor.

There are some major differences. 1) Increased pool of unskilled labor-- manufacturing industry tanked, increased immigration. 2) Proliferation of internet connected, smartphones. …

Or, they get 20-25% discount from retailers (coming out of stores marketing budget and reduction in store staff cost). EDIT: The discounts come from the cost savings stores will se…

You should actually ask this question before making decision.. and if your take it is that you would renegade on the decision, than you should delay making that decision.. and wait…

I want to add a clarification note that visa issues are harder to bring someone to US for the first time. Once someone is here, doing transfers from company to company is relativel…