Technical, Macro, and Marketing Musings
Kumar’s Law: Over the history of software programming and app development, I’ve observed that the the number of developers and/or technologies/APIs and/or costs and/or education required to build an app will decrease by 2x every 2 years. Graveyard Code. No-one can be sure just how many apps exist in the marketplace. One of the primary issues is […]
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Deeming a drug safe is much easier than deeming it effective. One thing most people don’t understand is that the hard scientific costs of drug development at a scientific level are usually millions of dollars, not billions. What happened in the late 50’s and 60’s was the birth of children with limb malformities/malformations as a […]
Kumar Thangudu15,000+ web and mobile apps come out every day. The trend is very clear, the hardest tasks on web are quickly becoming abstracted. The barriers to entry have become absurdly low for people who are non-technical. Designer? Don’t think you can design graphics? Not true. You can use Canva. I can train high school kids to design killer […]
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I see something on the horizon of sales that will change everything. In the USA, there are something like 18 Million sales people. We are a country of sales people. I see something exciting, because I’m addicted to apps. Every day, I am witness to the largest demo day on the planet. Over 15,000 web and […]
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People against nuclear energy are missing some key perspectives. Everyone who is educated on the nature of $/MWh, cares about the environment, understands specific energy, power density, and environmental impacts can clearly see that it will take a combination of energy sources with Nuclear doing the heavy lifting to come to a more energy sustainable future. The big problem if solved, that […]
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Answer by Kumar Thangudu: 20,000 Web & Mobile Apps. My cofounder and I have downloaded and used over 20,000 web and mobile apps over the past ~800 days. Here are some of our favorites, from the standpoint of being SAAS entrepreneurs/founders of LinkTexting – Create Text To Download Forms in Seconds. Keep in mind as a […]
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Sometimes, being vicious is necessary, especially for early stage founders. Here, I share a few stories of how companies were vicious in their approach to acquiring users. Reddit faked comments in the early days. Youtube & Vkontakte hosted pirated content knowingly. In the early days, iOS apps juiced their valuations with vanity invite metrics that entailed invite-walls […]
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How to Grow as An Artist- Some Learnings This week, I spent some time on my flight from Dubai to SF, learning how artists promote their work digitally, trying to come up with a heuristically good understanding of the best practices. I spend a lot of time helping silicon valley companies grow. This post is meant […]
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Today, I left 40 dirhams on the table while negotiating for a watch. It was the perfect weather for negotiations, hot. (Middle of Ramadan as well.) I had some well intentioned friendly fire interference in the negotiation, but it was only ~$10USD. There’s a lot of stuff I learned about negotiating in India, so I figured […]
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