masudhossain's comments

masudhossain | 9 years ago | on: Recommend a Founder for YC

So does this mean that I should contact people in my network to go and recommend me?

Is YC going to read all these recommendations or is it going to be only forwarded to the person applying?

masudhossain | 9 years ago | on: Ways to Keep and Motivate Your Best Employees

This was actually my article!

I'm glad it was helpful for all of you (my most popular article thus far!). Feel free to follow me on medium! I love writing about startups and how to keep everyone happy, including your customers.

masudhossain | 9 years ago | on: Ooshma Garg, founder of Gobble (YC W14) – Startup School video and AMA

Love it when YC alumni's do AMAs!

What was your growth rate for the first 3 months of launching Gobble and how did you acquire your first batch of users?

Also, "I just searched my email for "sit this one out", "going to pass", "won't get there", "not the right fit", and "not going to get to the finish line", and I think we're at 200+."

Is that "200+" denials for VC/angel funding??

masudhossain | 9 years ago | on: Ask HN: How do you find friends after moving to a new city?

For dating, I recommend Tinder. You can explicitly say you're new to the area and just wanna make friends (they might think you're lying).

You can also go to meetup.com and find stuff you're interested in.

Bars are fun, I guess, but usually people go with groups so meehhhhh.

masudhossain | 10 years ago | on: Vote.org is a non-profit that wants to get the U.S. to 100% voter turnout

If someone were to vote on your website, how long would it take?

One of the main reasons why people don't vote is not being informed enough. Let's be honest, we hate the media and a lot of people don't know WHAT to believe anymore.

So do you have any plans on educating the people to think more logically and look at statistics for example when choosing to vote? Of course I'm not suggesting you to have any bias towards any candidates, but rather educate the people on what they vote for.

masudhossain | 10 years ago | on: Apply HN: Wiredhere|Connecting you to Fitness partners and trainers near you

The app coordinates meetings with users by first getting the facilities they belong to.

So whenever they create an activity, the location is automatically pulled for the other users.

We DO have the chat functionality already there, but we didn't want them coordinating the meetup location on there because we think that's too complicated.

masudhossain | 10 years ago | on: HN Office Hours with Jared Friedman and Trevor Blackwell

Hey, Trevor and Jared. Thanks a lot for doing this!

WHAT WE DO: www.wiredhere.com

We integrate every social activity (university created or student created) happening within an university into a mobile app. The students can attend and provide feedback through the app; we than take the analytics that's created and provide it to universities so they can assess and compare themselves to other universities.

QUESTION:

Do you think it's more optimal approach this as a SAAS for the university since we provide them a brand new web platform to make event creation easier and so they can reach students in a faster way? OR be a non-saas and introduce this to the students first and let the universities catch on afterwards, and than work with the university so they can use our web platform and mobile app?

Also, what is your opinion on our concept?

masudhossain | 10 years ago | on: A New Breed of Trader on Wall Street: Coders with a Ph.D

Trader+coder here.

This article is missing something very important, the fact that coding doesn't mean you're going to trade better.

A coder doesn't know how to trade right off the bat, they'll only know how to code in a specific trading rubric (most trading algos aren't even good unless we're talking HFT) that has been told to them from someone that already knows how to trade successfully.

Anyone that's a real trader and has managed clients money will instantly be able to tell you that this is articles title is misleading.

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