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Good for her. Young, female and coming from a tricky geographical location that's relatively distanced from the start-up scene must be incredibly tough. Unfort
by Peroni 15y ago
Good for her. Young, female and coming from a tricky geographical location that's relatively distanced from the start-up scene must be incredibly tough.
Unfortunately for her, she's going to really struggle to have people heed her good advice for quite some time as it's experience and success that dictates the value of your advice.
- jrabone 15y agoAh, "the" start-up scene, AKA "everything that's wrong with London-centric UK". I hope Propelly takes off and reminds the tech-luvvies that there IS a world outside London. It might stretches as far as Scotland, if you squint hard enough and don't listen to fat Alec too much.
- antihero 15y agoThere's Brighton, also. I mean it's not so start-up centric as opposed to new-media centric, but it's still a great scene!
- shelf 15y agoWhilst Propelly is struggling with the HN load, it seems to me that it's pretty much identical to Gumroad, except with that added (and very reassuring) 'a 14yo is a major contributor' factor that goes down very well in e-commerce. (Perhaps there is more to it?) This approach to business is precisely what brings on all those 'bubble' cries. We've made innovation seem like a matter of retracing the steps of others with a minor twist, and those that want to join the profit party infer that the steps themselves create success, rather than a perfect storm of randomness. One should only re-create a wheel if it has developed a bad attitude or hired a lawyer, IMO.