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Hey Peter! Thanks for reading that huge ugly block of text, HN isn't the best way to post lists like that :) That's cool you run HTML5 weekly, I just subscrib
by TomGullen 15y ago
Hey Peter!
Thanks for reading that huge ugly block of text, HN isn't the best way to post lists like that :)
That's cool you run HTML5 weekly, I just subscribed! And it's great that someone like you has already heard of us. If you ever want to ask more questions about us or what we do please feel free to drop me an email at any time (tom at our website domain dot com).
Interesting to know we look bigger to you than we are!
Twitter is important to us, already with our meagre presence it's one of our top referrers so we definitely need to pay it more attention. I'll have a dig through Guy Kawasaki's account and see if I can learn anything.
With accounting we made sure we got a good chartered one from a trustworthy referral. I generally read up a fair amount of detail for everything so I get a general picture of what's going on, including VAT. I was ambitious at first, buying a thick textbook on it and doing some exercises but it wasn't long before I realised my attention and time was being diverted away from the more important things. Ignoring any money they save you because they are more skilled, the time they save in my opinion is worth every penny even if you're cash strapped. Also the risk of making a mistake sounds like it could be an expensive one from what I read.
With .NET it stemmed from a blog post I wrote about issues using MP3 in HTML5. Here's the original post (note that following blog posts correct a couple of errors in regards to Flash):
http://www.scirra.com/blog/64/why-you-shouldnt-use-mp3-in-your-html5-games http://www.scirra.com/blog/64/why-you-shouldnt-use-mp3-in-yo...
I then noticed that .NET did a small snippet on their website about that article:
http://www.netmagazine.com/news/startup-argues-dont-use-mp3-audio-html5-games-111657 http://www.netmagazine.com/news/startup-argues-dont-use-mp3-...
So I saw this as an opportunity to contact them by email and tell them about our startup. Didn't hear anything back but then a couple of months later a reporter got in touch with us saying the editorial team sent him an email mentioning us as a possible product to review. (Ashley also has a 3 page article coming out regarding HTML5 audio in the next issue as well which we are excited about!)
This is one of the unexpected connections I mentioned in the original post that stem from popular blog posts.
Thanks again for your comments really appreciate it! We're incredibly excited about HTML5 and think our timing is pretty good to position ourselves nicely.