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Yeah, so let's repeat that - this time in a vastly different market, way crazier demographic variety, far different socio-economic & growth conditions and tech/internet revolution …

Toll-free analogy doesn't work - https://medium.com/@amod/the-broken-analogy-toll-free-vs-zer... This post is from CTO of Flipkart (India's #1 ecomm site) who supported NetNeutrali…

The problem is akin to being a frog in the well. Millions of first-time internet users will be onboarded (using shady mktg techniques - that's just how things work on the ground wh…

"You must be on the Reliance network to use Internet.org. If you'd like to access these websites for free, use a SIM card from Reliance" -- What I see when I visit internet.org fro…

it's not a superior vs inferior product. This was just an example to show that telcos are making money at the entry level too & they should (screenshot - http://i.imgur.com/gpsgRLh…

> It's too expensive to make the whole internet free. Mobile operators spend tens of billions of dollars to support all of internet traffic. If it was all free they'd go out of bus…

Here's the full reply from India's SaveTheInternet.in coalition exposing Facebook's chicanery --> http://www.hindustantimes.com/technology-topstories/mr-zucke... This piece can be …

oh well ...hello! :-) and sorry I kinda took a shortcut to the assumption that you were not an Indian.

Denzil - we have bodies and committees for every thing but no action takes place. Our CCI is a joke. There is no anti-trust. And less said about our courts & justice system the bet…

India's underrated, unheralded and inimitable columnist, Vikram Doctor wrote a fantastic column last year about the Indian connection in ice trade | http://blogs.economictimes.indi…

very cool! I'll try this with my 4.5 year old - he's just about getting a hang of an internet as an 'abstract invisible something' - that like electricity is out there; that it can…

Very impressive Ankit. Really liked your hack to go cold emails. Even InMobi cold-called all the way to KPCB! So it's not unheard of. All the best on journey ahead. Bit of a noob Q…

I hesitate to link to this because they're still one year away from shipping but this could be one option: https://www.kickstarter.com/projects/smartrico/rico-turn-you...

Thanks for your perspective David. On re-reading maybe I personalised those comments a bit too much or it comes out as litany of excuses which was not what I intended. Just wanted …

Me too. In my case YC deadline just happened to coincide my decision to startup. More than the financial backing my startup would've benefited more by being in YC ecosystem and my …

Got rejected. No big deal. Will continue as planned. Good luck to everyone who got selected and double of that to fellow rejectees. Launched a medical tourism startup-- prepre-alph…

Sounds interesting. Few more details? - email in my profile. And all the best. We got rejected too.

Hi forca: With respect to your comment ( https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=8304139 ) where you stated you needed some surgery and sought help with figuring out your options? I r…

http://blog.intercom.io/the-end-of-apps-as-we-know-them/ - This article about where mobile apps are going resonated with me. It says we're eventually moving away from a bank of hom…

Disclosure: Indian W'15 applicant here. Very pleasing to my ears. Few days back @sama also mentioned in one of the interviews to local print about wanting to make inroads into Indi…

http://www.seed-db.com/accelerators has a pretty exhaustive and useful list of all the international incubators/accelerators with some metrics. You can point to it as a resource. T…

Bingo! I came across Progress first time this week in a different context (Indian startup scene) - they portray themselves as incubators here ( https://www.progress.com/incubator )…

I recently spent some time (probably more than I should have) at naming my new project. I went through a couple of namegenerators and I found bustaname.com to be the best of the lo…

I came across this only today and just want to say it's excellent. Beautifully done. Thanks for putting it out.

Well yes I can go read the act but at this early stage don't have that much time to spend on legalese without first understanding the contours. I'm looking for simpler explanations…