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Re: Por qué puedes vender más teniendo un botón click to call en tu sitio web

Abhishek — Mon, 09 Apr 2018 01:24:12 -0000

Thanks guys for sharing your experience. I have received a video call email and this article helped me visualise what all to expect next. I wish you guys all the best and I am sure you are doing well even though you could not make it to YC.

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

Abhishek — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 07:29:07 -0000

To acquire its talent! I am sure @Brian Donohue is worth a lot of money! :)

Re: Instapaper is joining Pinterest

Abhishek — Wed, 24 Aug 2016 03:07:02 -0000

Which ones?

Re: Tough News: We’ve Made 10 Layoffs. How We Got Here, the Financial Details and How We’re Moving Forward

Abhishek — Thu, 23 Jun 2016 01:43:55 -0000

Well, as always kudos for the transparency you are bringing in this world. But with all due respect, $400,000 for a company retreat is way too much as per me. I guess you already have a plan to reduce this amount by arranging smaller and local retreats. All the best! :)

Re: The 5 'Best' User Onboarding Examples

Abhishek — Mon, 25 Apr 2016 08:03:05 -0000

I must say this is a wonderful collection of awesome user onboarding experiences. This is going to help me a great deal improving experience of my products. Thank you for writing this.

Re: Side Projects

Abhishek — Fri, 08 Apr 2016 09:06:20 -0000

"I suspect that some of that is the effort to build and launch something that can reach broad adoption is harder. You have to build for desktop web, mobile web, iOS, and Android if you want to get your app in front of everyone. Back in 2003/2004, you just had to build for the desktop web."

Also the number of people doing side projects have increased a lot since the days of delicious. This is also making new ideas come by harder and harder. When you think of something you believe is unique and new, you will always find somebody doing something similar. This does not mean you can't succeed but many ideas must be getting killed because of this reason.

Re: Why Meteor - Dan Dascalescu's Wiki

Abhishek — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:58:54 -0000

Probably the best article, I have read on "Why Meteor?". Thank you for writing this. We have been more than happy using Meteor for one of our products www.readboard.io. The speed with which we have been able to iterate has been phenomenal. Meteor has its own set of challenges but I would recommend it to anyone wanting to build a decent scale MVP.

Re: Meteor.js - The Perfect Match For Lean Startups

Abhishek — Tue, 16 Feb 2016 13:38:57 -0000

I completely agree and that's why we have chosen Meteor for our product ReadBoard. We are loving Meteor so far. It has saved us a lot of time and have given us some challenges as well. But overall I would recommend it to anyone to build at least the MVP.

Check what we have done with Meteor at this link - www.readboard.io

Re: How to Give and Receive Feedback at Work: The Psychology of Criticism

Abhishek — Wed, 24 Dec 2014 01:50:40 -0000

Hi Courtney, nice article. I would like to mention a slightly different point of view here.

The "constructive criticism sandwich" is also known as "shit sandwich" and according to some it is a terrible way to give feedback. One of the person of that view is Ben Horowitz. In his insightful article he has mentioned

"The shit sandwich can work well with junior employees, but has the following challenges:

It tends to be overly formal. Because you have to preplan and script the sandwich to make it come out correctly, the process can feel formal and judgmental to the employee.

After you do it a couple of times, it will lack authenticity. The employee will think: “Oh boy, she’s complimenting me again. I know what’s coming next, the shit.”

More senior executives will recognize the shit sandwich immediately and it will have an instant negative effect."

He has also offered few keys for giving effective feedback.

http://www.bhorowitz.com/ma...

What do you have to say?

Re: Running Lean Overview —

Abhishek — Thu, 25 Sep 2014 02:31:20 -0000

Thank you Ash for this wonderful start. I have started to see my idea aka known as a "solution" :) in a different perspective now. I haven't read the book yet so may be answer is there already but still let me ask here.

When should I be building MVP for testing out various assumptions of mine? Should it be done before business model exercise, after it or somewhere in between.

Re: Fun Friday: Italy vs Spain

Abhishek — Sat, 30 Jun 2012 14:58:08 -0000

We all are missing Andrea Pirlo here. Pirlo has moved one step closer to the legendary status after that penalty kick against England. If he nets a goal or two in final same as Zidane did in World Cup 98 for France, he will become one.

Re: MBA Mondays: Retaining Your Employees

Abhishek — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 10:20:15 -0000

Yup taken from "Getting Real" by 37Signals.

Re: MBA Mondays: Retaining Your Employees

Abhishek — Mon, 25 Jun 2012 08:17:06 -0000

This post could not have come at a better time for us. We are right now around 60-70 people in my company and I was thinking "How to move employee satisfaction to the next level?" i.e. "How to retain them?"

We (Founders) identified following points in our bi-weekly meeting:

1. Hire only and only "A" people. "A" people likes to work "A" people.
2. Let go people who are not "Culture Fit" and thus not performing well.
3. Convey the mission of the company. Belief and Zeal has to come down from the leaders.
4. Sounds silly but give them lot of "t-shirts"! I think our developer should be wearing one or the other Digicorp t-shirt at least 2-3 days a week.
5. Celebrate small victories
6. Implement Scrum in all projects
7. Weekly projects updates

More or less we are trying to do what you have suggested here. And I am proud that we could come up with these points before your post. :)

Thank you for providing us the light when we needed it the most! You have always been an inspiration.

Re: Hitting 40 employees and going vanilla

Abhishek — Tue, 29 May 2012 09:14:50 -0000

"Will the Treehouse Team think less of me if they know my weaknesses and weirdness? I don’t think so, but nevertheless I have to fight the urge to be safe instead of real."

So what are you on this blog? Safe or Real?

Re: Writing

Abhishek — Wed, 23 Nov 2011 05:21:27 -0000

I think following PDF will help your son and anyone who wants to know how to improve writing.

http://www.ai.uga.edu/mc/Wr...

Re: http://www.steverubel.me/post/6481439422

Abhishek — Mon, 13 Jun 2011 06:32:58 -0000

I have heard this from many of my friends now. People are getting bored on facebook. Especially those who are using since long.

This is deja vu for me as I saw same thing with Orkut. I am from India and Orkut was the social network of India few years back. Slowly people started getting bored of Orkut and jumped from Orkut to Facebook. Still that jumping is going on.

I started feeling bored of facebook as soon as I felt too many people are jumping in now!!

Re: Some iPad Help Please

Abhishek — Sat, 11 Jun 2011 07:43:37 -0000

I hear this from "n" number of people and in spite of being an apple fan boy, I agree. iTunes if probably the most pathetic software of our times especially when it comes to syncing etc.

Re: The Smartphone Explosion

Abhishek — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 06:49:43 -0000

Hi Sandeep,
I was referring to the Google Checkout for merchants. You can not sell android application if you are a developer based in India as you can not register as a merchant in Google Checkout as of now.

Re: The Smartphone Explosion

Abhishek — Thu, 30 Dec 2010 04:29:32 -0000

I would like to see this phenomenon from a developer's perspective:

Do more android phones means more money for the android application developers? I doubt it.

Low end android phones will be bought by people who will not be doing lot of shopping from the android market.

Yes if your application is free and you have found out some other revenue model based on mass, it may work. But selling your application on android market and earning lot of money will still be a challenge for the developers.

Google checkout also slows down this process. For e.g. It is not available in India right now and as an Android developer based in India, I am not able to make my only Android Application paid!

I think next year also iPhone / iPad developers will earn more from iPhone 4 / 5 (may be) and iPad 2!

What do you say Fred?

Re: www.narendramodi.in : Videos

Abhishek — Sat, 28 Aug 2010 01:01:54 -0000

Great videos, great voice and great actor. I am sure this will boost Gujarat tourism. Keep up the good work as always :)

Re: danieltenner.com — What problems does Google Wave solve?

Abhishek — Fri, 16 Oct 2009 01:39:56 -0000

Dude few corporations may still be using Lotus 123 notes. We are not talking about such corporations. We are talking about agile companies who wants to keep pace with upcoming technologies. Just look at the way big corporations have adopted twitter in their operations. This product is targeting such companies. For laggards no innovation or product is going to make any difference soon.

Re: danieltenner.com — What problems does Google Wave solve?

Abhishek — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:51:58 -0000

I must say you have done a good job explaining it :) This will be my first reference if I have to explain google wave to someone.

Re: danieltenner.com — What problems does Google Wave solve?

Abhishek — Thu, 15 Oct 2009 09:06:41 -0000

This is good analysis. I am also of the same opinion and can see why Robert Scoble stopped using it as soon as he started it. Simply because it is not meant for him. I got my invite yesterday only and by seeing few example wave it was pretty much clear to me why this thing can become hit in corporate world. Good one, you saved me efforts to write my own post about this ;)

Re: Consumer Centric Health Care

Abhishek — Mon, 31 Aug 2009 08:36:20 -0000

Healthcare has become business in America and like every business why Healthcare can not have competition that is yet to be understood!

Competition make business healthy and I am sure Healthcare services will improve because of this. We need many more articles like this from many more thinkers like David.

As they say "Pen is mightier than sword", I am sure this will have an effect in formulating the healthcare industry once again.

Re: Joel Spolsky: Setting the Right Priorities

Abhishek — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 05:17:20 -0000

Great insight to the entrepreneurs like us. I guess this is true for each and every product.