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If people in US can be misled by fake news, India stood little chance. Facebook and WhatsApp have been used effectively to brainwash the general public in India.
As Barack Obama described in his new book 'Promised Land', the chances of democracy surviving in a multi-ethnic, multi-religious poor country like India was precarious at best. BJP and RSS has effectively made sure that democracy dies in India
+N. Its equally telling about the CEO as it is about Emil Michael.
+1000. You have hit the nail on the head.
Its based on the analysis of 45 million names on social networks so it can be biased towards people who predominantly are present on social networks.
Its percentage of Josephs in each country. Is that what you are asking?
You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/
You mean, stocktwits?
You can read about why we developed the app here: http://www.beevolve.com/whats-in-my-name/
We will be switching to captcha in a day or so - if you want to give it a try after that.
Nope, the social login is just to prevent too many queries. We are planning to switch to Captcha in a day or two instead of social login.
yeah, I wonder why we didn't think of that option. We will definitely switch to that.
We wanted to prevent automated bots from sending too many queries at once - that's why we kept the social login. If you are still concerned, you could authenticate with a fake Twitter or FB account or revoke the permissions after trying it out.
What was their traction and valuation when they raised this round?
Lots of different analytics solutions suited for different scenarios mentioned in your list. Each one serves a different need even though there is some degree of overlap between them. You need to answer questions about your business to figure out which tools you should be using - Are you guys in the enterprise or consumer space? How do you market your startup's products? Do you use Email Marketing? Do you use Social Media to promote your startup or its products? What are the metrics you should be measuring to understand if your business is growing? Answer to these questions will determine which analytic solutions you should be using for your startup.
Any comparisions between Pig, Hbase and Hive might help
Interoperability between services is bound to be the next big thing. Nice job, guys!
Is it going to be in Clojure?
What this kind of scammers don't realize is that internet and subsequent proliferation of social media networks has leveled the playing field to a large extent. So, if people who are being arm-twisted become more vocal about it, it might come back to bite the scammers.
India has also given people like Rajat Gupta (ex-Mckinsey Director) and others involved in the insider trading case.
Did Google dupe Sequoia and other VCs into thinking that Color was actually worth investing $40million dollar into even though eventually when they launched it turned out to be vaporware?
Indian brands are notorious for arm-twisting their customers. I have seen one senior level executive of a major Indian brand claim that in a population of 1 billion, they can afford to piss off a lot of customers and still get new customers to not worry about the churn rate because people don't have many options and customers know that each one of the option suck equally.
Yes, it is really bad. Turns out, the test data we were using was not clean and correctly categorized and that's why such low accuracy.
What's their CAC, LTV and any other interesting metrics he is willing to share
No extensions on Chrome :)
I also have 64-bit linux running with Chrome beta. If I have 20+ tabs open and open any website with flash content, it inevitably hangs the machine.
I face that exact same problem on my Nexus One browser.
You are right. It happens more frequently whenever I open a website with flash content.
Currently using 8.0.55 Beta.
Most of the recent VC funded Internet companies that have gone public have never been profitable in their life (which sometimes stretches a decade of existence). For e.g. -
DemandMedia Makemytrip Zillow Envivio
According to a recent WSJ artcile[1], 11 of the 30 tech companies going IPO this year have been in red and 19 reported some profit last quarter.
That is definitely a sign of bubble if we take a cue from the 99-2000 bubble.
[1] http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/04/19/a-look-at-the...
Extremely talented team as well as cool search engine technology. Unfortunately, they were not able to create a significant dent in the search engine market with their vertical search approach. Let's see if Blekko can carve out a niche for themselves.