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Here's the letter he wrote to the board and stock exchanges:

http://www.moneycontrol.com/news_html_files/news_attachment/...

I'd rather be Westinghouse. He didn't invent much but, bought the right's to Tesla's invention, successfully commercialized those and ultimately prevailed over Edison..

Interesting question - How do you look at yourself? Scientist -> Engineer -> Entrepreneur

# I would rather have people think we're confused than let our competitors know what we're going to do.

I guess not, unless he is Warren Buffett

There is no difference

If you think your startup isn't a (big or small) business - you are missing the point.

You'll have to pay me (publisher) a lot of money to be able to do that to my site...

I think its a good concept - Changing the site design/UI based on advertisers' branding requirements but automating it and doing it real time might be too much of a trouble and risk for the publisher...

I use google analytics and awstats.

The point is variance in data tends to decrease with frequency. Weekly or Monthly data tends to make lot more sense than hourly or daily stats. But its difficult to resist the temptation to watch is hourly/daily

I scored 3/7 :-(

thanks.

My host is asking for $100/month for VPS compared to < $5/month I pay for shared hosting.

I joined Bell Labs in late 2000 and quit in six months of joining... I guess those weren't the best days for the labs or Lucent

My all time favorite"

"When a management team with a reputation for brilliance tackles a business with a reputation for bad economics, it is the reputation of the business that remains intact."

There are hardly any non-mortgage expenses.. Wife earns and can contribute 30-35% of the mortgage. mortgage is about $1500/month

Don't want to seek funding but want to invest more time in promoting/marketing the product and also launching similar products in other sub-categories...

"Would he be better keeping the job and plowing the monthly profits into AdWords for the time being?" - That makes me think!!

What more data points would you need to make a better decision? Some more info below:

Revenue - $200 last month (Ad - 80%, Premium Services - 20%) Average time on site: 7 mins Bounce rate: 21% Daily new users: 27%

Business: Its a sub category in a mature and proven industry.

What would you say about http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=381492

Would that take care of contact details and lawful ownership of the domain

He registered it with net4.in

How to execute the deal - change the ownership from him to me.

He has a many domains registered in the same account.