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Capitalmind
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Capitalmind is the company blog at capitalmind.in, writing about economics and business. Since 2011, 15 different Hacker News readers have linked it 18 times, most often “The Economics of Using Uber in India, for Drivers, Passengers and the Company”. It is still writing: the last post was on 2026-11-02, and you can follow it by feed.
Too few sampled comments (11) to say how often HN recommends it.?
Why HN links it
HN readers link Capitalmind, an Indian portfolio management firm's blog, for economics and policy posts on telecom costs, demonetisation, startup taxation, Uber subsidies and India's slowdown.
Summarised by Claude from a sample of 11 HN comments that link here. Each comment is marked recommending, critical or neutral (citing without judging); how this works.
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Most-linked posts?
- The Economics of Using Uber in India, for Drivers, Passengers and the Company2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2015-10-20
What Hacker News says?
Essentially inflation [0] and weakening currency [1]. [0] https://capitalmind.in/wp-content/uploads/2016/02/Adj-for-In... [1] https://s.tradingview.com/widgetembed/?frameElementId=tradin...
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on “My somewhat complete salary history as a software engineer”Submitted Why peer to peer digital payment system UPI should remain free in India as a story · 80 points
HN discussionIt's important to keep in mind that telco's arguments, that they are losing money or finding it hard to recover their investment costs, have been thoroughly debunked: http://capitalmind.in/2015/04/telecom-companies-are-not-losi...
Comment linking /2015/04/telecom-companies-are-not-losing-money-to-data-services-the-net-neutrality-debate/?hc_location=ufi
on “Blow to Internet.org as Indian Internet Companies Begin to Withdraw”Submitted The Economics of Using Uber in India, for Drivers, Passengers and the Company as a story · 2 points
HN discussionIt's not about going cashless at all. New notes for 500 Rs and 2000 Rs are coming soon. Read: http://capitalmind.in/2016/11/black-money-is-dead-long-live-...
Comment linking /2016/11/black-money-is-dead-long-live-black-money-the-5001000-rs-note-ban/
on “India's demonetisation of Rs. 500 and Rs. 1000 notes”Submitted Hedge Fund Manager Buys Drug, Hikes It from $15 to $750, in India Its Sold 4 Rs3 as a story · 2 points
HN discussion> Additionally, Reliance is highly respected in India. When the current CEOs father ran the company, millions of middle-class families in India bought houses, cars, got their children married, gathered retirement funds, etc riding on the sheer growth of Reliance as a company. Reliance is one of the companies that actually care about retail investors, at times even going to extreme measures to help them. For instance…
Comment linking /2020/01/podcast-surviving-a-bear-attack-how-dhirubhai-did-it/
on “Google to Invest $10B in India”Submitted What Cathie Wood gets right as a story · 1 points
HN discussionCircular investments were also a compounding factor in the Japanese asset price bubble. The practice was known as “zaitech” > zaitech - financial engineering > In 1984, Japan’s Ministry of Finance permitted companies to operate special accounts for their shareholdings, known as tokkin accounts. These accounts allowed companies to trade securities without paying capital gains tax on their profits. > At the same time,…
Comment linking /insights/lost-decades-japan-1980s-asset-price-bubble
on “How OpenAI uses complex and circular deals to fuel its multibillion-dollar rise”Submitted The Failure Of Financial Web Startups in India as a story · 1 points
HN discussionI think it's important that proper lessons are learned and reforms are taken. Just like what happened in 1991. https://www.capitalmind.in/2019/09/dont-waste-a-slowdown-par...
Comment linking /2019/09/dont-waste-a-slowdown-part-1-whats-going-on/
on “From Underwear to Cars, India’s Economy Is Fraying”Submitted Creating a Hedge Fund in India: The Structure as a story · 1 points
HN discussion> It's too expensive to make the whole internet free. Mobile operators spend tens of billions of dollars to support all of internet traffic. If it was all free they'd go out of business. >> Mark seems to be implying here that mobile networks are eating the cost today as a form of charity. Is that true? Patently untrue. On the contrary telcos are raking it in hand over fist ever since data usage started shooting up.…
Comment linking /2015/04/telecom-companies-are-not-losing-money-to-data-services-the-net-neutrality-debate/
on “About Internet.org and net neutrality”Thanks - I wrote the original post ( http://capitalmind.in/2012/03/angel-investors-beware-funding... ) and have a few more that the recent Budget has introduced, at http://capitalmind.in/category/startups/startuptax/
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on “India: Funding Startups Could be Classified as Income”In Bangalore, the driver seems to be making $3 for every $1 spent by the passenger. For Uber, this translates to about $7.5m/month of subsidy in Bangalore alone. Source: http://capitalmind.in/2015/10/the-economics-of-using-uber-in...
Comment linking /2015/10/the-economics-of-using-uber-in-india-for-drivers-passengers-and-the-company/
on “Didi Kuaidi: Uber's Enemy in China”Oxfam is a variable charity at best. Oxfam India, for example was found to spend 70% of what it received in donations on fundraising[1]. In the UK it spends a significant volume of money on fundraising, paying a company called Tag Campaigns to raise money in the streets, not without controversy[2][3]. Oxfam GB also acts as a lobbyist in the UK, receives large amounts of funding from the government and has particular…
Comment linking /2011/06/oxfam-india-spends-70-of-donations-as-fund-raising-cost/
on “Annual income of richest 100 people enough to end global poverty four times over”Some years ago there was a big one. Pls see here https://www.capitalmind.in/2015/01/the-inflexion-point-for-t...
Comment linking /2015/01/the-inflexion-point-for-the-it-service-industry-long/
on “Ask HN: Where are the rolling heads of cloud adoption?”
