biswajitsharma

Spend more time with Nature (easier said than done)

It is a fable, that certain kind of work changes the world for better. The reality is changing the world is a slow process, it takes a sequence of events which eventually makes things better.

You do not have to work for a large famous company to start making things better. I absolutely believe that if you want to make a big impact in the world, you need to start small - with something closer and around you.

Consider a few things ... (use your imagination) At social level, start small, if you want to make a change to world: 1. Help a Child

2. Teach someone something, may be online.

At personal level:

1. Work on a hobby project, have your own vision for the world.

2. Learn something you would really like to do.

To take things off your current negativity, take a break, may be a vacation, do something you enjoy, Hiking, Music, Books ..whatever is your thing.

Change the Subject to Show HN , might get more attention. Good Luck!

Do not judge your friend, purely based on the "Number of Commits"

Business needs many kind of people.

People who do, people who think, people who get things done.

You mentioned, he is more a Sales and Marketing person - Do you think he is going to be an asset there? Is he the lateral thinker - who is going to turn your story around?

A Business is a combination of many things:

- Market Fitment

- Product Concept & Market Fitment

- Resources (Money, Time)

- Business Development

- Operations

- People

- Ideas

- Hardwork

- Perseverance

- Service & Support

- and 100s of other paramemters

Think, if he is going to be an asset somewhere, where you are not good at (Trust me, no one is good at everything).

Ofcourse, sometimes you have to bite the bullet and let even the best people go, then - do be prepared for the consequences.

Biggest problem in this is, one size does not fit all.

It is hard to compile a stack - which would be useful for most companies.

Yes, there have been attempts made - for Example, Open Stack. But then I feel, there is always an element of specific technology based on the needs of the product being built.

It probably depends on the type of product.

Few Options: 1. Friends, Family, Colleagues etc. Although, I do not prefer this option, as friends and known colleagues tend to be sugar coat their feedback, and that is not something you want.

2. One of them right here: https://news.ycombinator.com/show

3. If you can showcase your product on KickStarter or other crowd funding - brilliant, as it also kind of proves people will be willing to pay for your product in future.

4. Meetup Groups etc, walk into these groups, if you find people who would fall into your target profile. Do not hesitate to politely ask, if they would like to have a look.

5. If you have a target list, offer them free access, with a concise email or some other medium.

tl;dr: Anywhere you can see right people, offer.

Yes, a lot of people think SaaS = Deployed on Cloud.

But a significant part of sustainable deployment is the Service part, in Software as a Service

I understand, it is much harder for many SaaS companies to provide that 1:1 attention. Specially when the company would like to focus on the Product.

But there are ways to offsetting it, such as System Integrator, Localized Partners etc.

Large enterprise companies have been traditionally doing the same thing, Seibel for example grew like that. SAP, Oracle, is thriving on it.

But my question was also from the companies purchasing the service? What stops them from adopting SaaS in their environment?

You are right, accountability is one valid point, and large companies typically are used to having people on speed dial, when things break.

But then - aren't there questions about - how really agile they really are?

Large operations with a lot of custom software, and license based models and Time & Material based customization - it is always very hard to get things moving faster.

Also, I feel Large Operations have to hire a lot of people - just to manage what vendors are deploying. Very large operational costs.

You bring a valid point.

But then, What stops SaaS providers from Hosting in their own environment?

With Modern day Containerization technologies and orchestration layers, I believe it is not as difficult as it used to be - to be infra agnostic. A lot of large Enterprises are now - investing in their private cloud (AWS, Azure etc.)

IMHO, it is much beyond the Hosting part (which is mostly applicable during the installation stages).

There are questions about, - Accountability in case of failures. - Continuous Support and Customizations - Is there a Dedicated Support team etc. - more ...

Brilliant: Brilliantly Imagined, and Brilliantly captured.

If this is true, this is a brilliant comment!

Apologies, Just in case there has been any confusion. I just came across the Service, Liked it, Shared it here.

I am not involved in developing this service.

I liked the fact that, there is a lot of science that has gone behind it.

Stupidity is ubiquitous!

I do not think you can segment Engineers different from the society & Humans in General ... There are Arrogant people everywhere, those who think they are in some way better than others. Not just that, they think everyone else is stupid :)

Today I feel, Technology Seriously Arrived!! If I die today, I will die happy!

The Man has a lot of points about how to Optimize your income and Saving. Which are good values to be honest.

As a child, we (me and my brother) were taught by our parents to Save Pocket Money, when we don't really need them, and later we can buy something more meaningful with it.

Having said that, I do not think I want to retire so early :) ... May not be for the money, but for the fact that I learn everyday when I venture out and take on the challenges of life!

Do nothing that you do not love!

Dear All, Apologies. I wanted to come by all means but I am taking an early Monday morning flight. It will be a bit of a touch and go.

+1

21 Under 10 Geniuses ... All hail!

Now about that Kid, D'Alosio ... I don't care he built it or not, he made money like a crazy chicken!! I think that's enough!! :)

Coming back to Yahoo! I believe Marissa Mayer has something in mind. She is a smart lady, smart enough to point out what we are pointing out here.

If not, we'll soon see another JC Penney episode here.

Personally I think emailing Tim Cook will give you nothing more than emotional satisfaction.

If I may ask, why are you particular about Getting to US? What do you think you'll get in US, which you won't get in India?

Here are a few points I have. 1. Understand the business of Startups: Startups are usually ideas to 'fill up a gap'. With Logic, you are more likely to find gaps in a less matured market.

2. Why Emerging markets, are better than Matured markets: It is hard to believe that 1.2 billion people will not contribute to be one of the best economies of the world. It's hard to believe that there wont be enough business opportunities in India. (Same goes for China, which is already on top, and other emerging markets like Africa etc.)

3. Who will be winners of future? I would imagine people who are slogging to get the emerging markets better will be at best position in future.

3. If you think there is some kind of lack of opportunity in India. Well create one. If you think there are ways you think things should happen, well you should work to work those things out.

On VISA Issue: With Startup VISA coming, it might make a few things easier, but only time will tell the right story.

Bit of Troll Sorry - Technically it's not possible, no whole number's triple is 200 :)

Now on the topic, I hope apple and other companies realize the potential of A location like India. India has various classes of people, and small subset of it which can afford apple products makes a huge market.

So what it says is, Bitcoin now has Attention.

I think the tool needs a good reading pane. Not a hover type. I wish to read the whole article (when I have the content on the feed). Not very sure placing the reading pane on right will be a good idea.

May be there is a way to switch it off? There seems to be the following option

//Boolean - Whether we animate the rotation of the Doughnut

animateRotate : true,

I still use it :)

I do not think there is anyone in the world who does not have regrets and have not committed mistakes in life. Best part is, mistakes are best teachers of life. You are in early 30s, let's say average lifespan of a person is 70 years. So big question is will you let go of your coming 40 years for the lost 30 years? (and i am sure, you have not lost all of your last 30 years, there probably are more positives than negatives if you take a deeper look). Theory 2 - (as said by Peter Norvig) it takes 10 years to be really good at something.

Which means you have 4 things that you can be really good at in your coming life. So my friend go claim those.

Q1: MBA - I guess no :). But it will be good to have very strong hold on how financial system in your country works. Q2: Scaling a Bank is not easy (but ofcourse possible). Reason is Regulations of each country is different. That is true with any Financial Service. People say PayPal is global, yes they are but they have to adhere to local rules.

I am not in US, so I cannot open an account here. But Prima Facie, this seems like another Bank to me. Ofcourse, they are trying to simplifying a few things. But they do not have the kind of scale larger banks do, say Citibank etc. So I'm guessing once they reach a level where they have a lot of customers, their system will be forced to become more convoluted due to operational overhead.