medianama

No doubt about that.

But there has to be one guy whose word prevails... trying to do everything by consensus wastes a lot of time and doesn't always lead to best decision

The problem with same equity is that there is no boss. I am not sure if democracy works too well in start ups.

I'd surely want to hear about your achievements though

Prove to them that you can (and will) pull it off on your own - without co-founders and/or YC.... and they'll come to you.

Wish I could down vote you

news.google.com

highly un-scalable

Shame on you. I wish I could down vote your comment.

What is your contribution to the place where you were born? Please don't criticize, if you cannot contribute

I would say it depends on marginal cost of growing in other markets. If you need to localize the site/content and/or need offline presence (sales team, etc), it might not be such a good idea. If all you need to do is strike a couple of content partnerships or PR exercise in those regions and can be handled by one person - you must go for it... Growth of Orkut/Linkedin/Facebook in India is a good example

Monetization might be lower today, but things may (and will) change going forward...

Why is the Alexa rank so low with 22k unique users everyday?

Congratulations! Its a great initiative.

Is not moving to Ahmedabad an option for participants. I wish you ran this program in Delhi.

I am top 0.1% in India (and anywhere in the world). I missed out on H1b last year because the quota (65k) got filled in a day or so.

and I said - f@#k America...your loss, not mine

"i always believe people should not get into businesses which they don't understand"

I don't think internet businesses are all about writing code... There isn't any strong correlation between web development skills and ability to build a successful web business...

If a person can conceptualize a service that he can take to market and spend some money from his pocket to get it developed... I'd say his chances of success would be higher than average web developer who develops something that might not have a market

I believe he just made that up to grab attention and a few more pageviews

I feel bad about the fact that I liked whatever happened....

Linkedin is probably the only one I'd pay for... and may be google search also.

Conceptually, Its great...executing this might be difficult though...

Why don't you reduce the scope and implement it for a city... It'll reduce the effort required to bring it to a level where you could show its value to others...

Do you know if attracts spam, as much as pligg?

Mathematician or a Sportsman... who knows!

Would you consider startups not based in the US?

I mean (b) ;-)

Its not to businesses but consumers...

My question is - How many can I send before I am being labeled as a spammer :-)

I plan 500 mails daily.. is it too much/too little?

I got a very targeted list of users who I know are looking for product/service I offer..

not bad... i don't like the page design though

Why is the alexa rank so low for the kind of traffic this site gets?

"- No experience with an advertising startup - Old school software background - "

You would have said the same thing about Eric Schmidt in 2001.

Having tried Pligg for a while, I can tell you SPAM is a huge problem. Couple of weeks after the site went live, I started getting all these registrations from bots that I had to spend 30 minutes daily to clean that up... ultimately, I had to disable new user registrations, which kills the whole thing..

not sure about SlinkSet though...

"Things I see on the pay sites that should be left out: - letting job seekers post their resumes"

Not sure about this one. Recruiters will pay a lot of money for access to resume bank, for a niche that isn't available anywhere else... and you don't need to do much to implement this feature - just a form with file upload.

This is Frind's response to this on his blog --

----------------------------------- I found myself reading an entrepreneurship forum today talking about the Inc Article. I thought I would post here as well as some others might find this useful.

1. I hardly call myself lazy or a sloth. I built the site in 2 weeks 5 years ago. Since then and even now all the user interaction happens in only a handful of pages. At the end of the day there are only so many ways in which you can reorder the search results. It’s like trying to rearrange the deck chairs on the titanic, it accomplishes nothing.

2. The only way to grow a site once its running its self is to have brilliant ideas. Great ideas don’t come from sitting in front of the computer screen for 8 hours of the day wondering what to do next. You have to inspired or have a really deep understanding of what is going on. So a Brilliant idea may start a business but you need to have many many more brilliant ideas if you are going to go from one of many to an industry leader.

3. Opportunity/luck doesn’t come to you, You are the one that creates it. I debated with myself for weeks before posting the million dollar check, and I figured the best way of doing that was by creating a blog and give myself a voice. I knew my free site competitors where going to venture capitalists and asking for huge sums of money, and my competitors where claiming to be first movers etc. After posting that check their chances of raising money went to 0. The wall street journal called after reading that post. WSJ article came out, next day the Today Show Called. The next week my total US site traffic was up over 50% and kept on growing. In Fact many things i’ve written on my blog have made it into the national papers. Inc Magazine story was a result of my blog, and i’ll be going on a national talk show next week again as a direct result of my blog. I post a lot of things on my blog, many of which seem like bragging, but when reporters read that it gives them an idea for a story which is the whole point of a blog anyways.

4. Work smart not hard. If all you do is work hard making incremental improvements you are just like a hamster running in a wheel and never really getting anywhere. If you want to get somewhere you need to come up with great ideas, or something that is significantly better than the competition and execute on that. Then you go back again and do the same thing over and over. Far too many people think entrepreneurship is like an attendance award, where you can win just by showing up.