As a US/CA resident, i'm always stunned to see how low operating costs can be in India.
How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
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Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#12What a funny coincidence, I was just looking at freshdesk yesterday. I really want to place our support software (Kayako), but there just aren't good options out there. Unfortunately SaaS doesn't work for us, but I wish these guys the best. Looks like they're on the right track and have the right priorities.
I recommend you to use Zendesk; http://zendesk.com
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#13I also have hacker news to thank for my entrepreneurial career, I think. There isn't a good story there, I've just been reading it for about 6 years, right about when I was graduating college, and the cult of YC indoctrinated me. Edit: For clarification, year 1 and 2 of hacker news were extremely focused on PG, PG's writings, YC, etc. So when I saw I was indoctrinated it's because the site was nothing but that.
Was bitgym funded by YC? Really impressed by your business proposition and your bike hack: http://blog.bitgym.com/2012/03/our-first-lean-hypothesis/ After 23 blog posts in 2 years, I'm sure there's more where that came from. Would you mind sharing your backstory here? Or a 1 minute rundown via email aaron [at] brownieinmotion [dot] ca. I would be honoured to spotlight bitgym in my book: http://sellfy.com/p/9j2z A bit of background: http://startupframework.tumblr.com/post/29634915106/what-i-l... Thanks Alex!
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#14Nice informative post. I also read your post, "How to incorporate a US Corporation from outside the USA". How is this legal? And how/who do you pay taxes?
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#15Nice informative post. I also read your post, "How to incorporate a US Corporation from outside the USA". How is this legal? And how/who do you pay taxes?
The US company is a Delaware C Corp and is a legal business entity in the US and pays taxes like any other corporation.
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#16I see you got getmefast to design your website, how much of that design is left in the current version, and how was the overall experience with that company? Thanks
We have changed much of the old site design developed by getmefast after we had the bandwidth and resources to have an inhouse team. Our experience was good enough to get started with a website. However for a start just getting some good templates from themeforest may do the job also for a lower cost till you can afford to hire a top notch team.
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#17I also have hacker news to thank for my entrepreneurial career, I think. There isn't a good story there, I've just been reading it for about 6 years, right about when I was graduating college, and the cult of YC indoctrinated me. Edit: For clarification, year 1 and 2 of hacker news were extremely focused on PG, PG's writings, YC, etc. So when I saw I was indoctrinated it's because the site was nothing but that.
Was bitgym funded by YC? Really impressed by your business proposition and your bike hack: http://blog.bitgym.com/2012/03/our-first-lean-hypothesis/ After 23 blog posts in 2 years, I'm sure there's more where that came from. Would you mind sharing your backstory here? Or a 1 minute rundown via email aaron [at] brownieinmotion [dot] ca. I would be honoured to spotlight bitgym in my book: http://sellfy.com/p/9j2z A bit…
We are not associated with or funded by YC, although Sam did fund us personally. I'll shoot you an email.
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#18I learned about the search at the bottom of the page. I have been here 6 months and been so excited with everything I never made it to the bottom to find it.
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#19I learned about the search at the bottom of the page. I have been here 6 months and been so excited with everything I never made it to the bottom to find it.
me too never saw it, but i have pinned hnsearch tab :P
Re: How Hacker News motivated me to resign my job and launch my own startup (2011)
#20What a funny coincidence, I was just looking at freshdesk yesterday. I really want to place our support software (Kayako), but there just aren't good options out there. Unfortunately SaaS doesn't work for us, but I wish these guys the best. Looks like they're on the right track and have the right priorities.
I recommend you to use Zendesk; http://zendesk.com
> Unfortunately SaaS doesn't work for us
> I recommend you to use Zendesk
Come on