balajiviswanath

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I'm a techie is passionate about technology, finance, and economics. I am a cofounder of a fin/tech startup - Zingfin.com. Before that I was a developer at Microsoft Redmond for 4 years working for Windows 7, Windows Phone and Live Labs.

Contact me at balaji [at] zingfin.com

  1. I have been using Crunchbase for some time and feel there is a high noise-to-signal ratio. There are too many companies that qualify neither as a startup nor as a product company. There are many dead companies and also…

  2. I will be starting my MBA this fall at Boston and will be interested in applying for next summer's Ycombinator, instead of doing a summer internship. But, I'm not sure if F1 students can apply for the program. Has…

  3. As patent trolls keep going after Google, Groupon and others, I thought it is time to discuss the merits of software patenting. NZ and India and other countries have recently struck down software patenting as the…