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Indian political parties are spending millions of dollars on online marketing, especially posting tons of spam on news articles.

So, it's "bragging rights". But, temporary bragging rights considering the fact that they have at least ~100 teams per year and unless your startup goes somewhere after YC, you're …

Why are so many people fretting about not getting into YC and why do crappy stories like this get upvoted? If getting into Y-Combinator was your idea of validation, your startup is…

Not very well.

Nope.

For starters, you'll need to start doing the following: 1. Register a Pvt. Ltd. to do business It's paperwork, paperwork and more paperwork! As for being late to the party, cost of…

I run a startup in Bangalore and Chennai, so I can explain the costs involved: In Bangalore Your cost for 2000 square feet office space would be at least $2000/mo in a fairly decen…

Yes sir. My bad.

Medium has a prettier editor? I could get featured on the first page of medium if my content doesn't suck?

And, I was talking about Medium vs my personal blog. Not really talking about Medium vs HN.

You're right. I was more active on Inbound.org vs Hacker News simply because I used to primarily write marketing content. The post I wrote yesterday which was actually a rant about…

Great argument. But, not quite the same. I run my personal blog on a $5/mo digital ocean box - I'm too cheap to shell out $100/mo for a managed SingleHop box. I don't know how to u…

Yet another yay for medium.

Possible true, but that's a tad too technical for me. I just want to focus on the writing.

I used to think the same way. But, propagation of your content is a lot more important than just feeling good that it's hosted on your own blog.