DistortedRhymes

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by DistortedRhymes 14y ago
I'll look it using this in my dreary day job. You would be suprised how hard it is to keep track of 12 staff that report to you and know what they are actually up to when you are extremly busy yourself. It would add a lot of pressure to the
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by DistortedRhymes 14y ago
In Australia again see www.pygg.co - send payments using twitter handle, mobile (cell) number, or email address.
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by DistortedRhymes 14y ago
If you could actually guarantee that I would get a really high quality product, that worked, and didn't have lots of bugs (it can have a few tweeks still needed), I can customers people being interested. What you would need is to ensure tha
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by DistortedRhymes 15y ago
Looks good, congrats!
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by DistortedRhymes 15y ago
You could use a phone and just call. Old school I know but it works!
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by DistortedRhymes 15y ago
A
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by DistortedRhymes 15y ago
Im downloading it now! Looks awesome! Congrats.
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by DistortedRhymes 15y ago
So you don't have to put up with bureacratic bullshit that goes on in all companies or government departments. Once you have worked in organisations for long enough, you learn that often the people in management above you are often quite in
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by DistortedRhymes 15y ago
Please come to Australia! We need you!
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by DistortedRhymes 15y ago
Definitely not. Check out the values of Bebo and MySpace and how much they are worth now. News Corp is trying to sell MySpace for $150million when they paid $500million for it a few years back. Don't bet that the same thing won't happen to
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by DistortedRhymes 16y ago
Welcome to Australia where there have always been caps - partially because we download so much content from the USA that someone has to pay for the fibre under the ocean to carry it all to us. Caps do change consumer behaviour a lot, but th
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Virtual assistants
7 points by DistortedRhymes 16y ago|2 comments
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by DistortedRhymes 16y ago
You could probably charge double, triple or quadruple and still get customers.
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by DistortedRhymes 16y ago
Be interested to know what your other data sources might be if you feel like sharing.
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by DistortedRhymes 16y ago
I'm stuck at work and on IE so I can't really see the site. You gotta support IE. Also not sure about the name, will people know that Furlango is about events?
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by DistortedRhymes 16y ago
Well that answers the question once and for all!
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by DistortedRhymes 16y ago
Great initiative and a fantastic list of mentors. Well done for putting this together. Also like the idea of the Tech Venture Creation course at Syd Uni. I'd like to see every uni in Australia have something similar running, then we'd be s
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by DistortedRhymes 16y ago
Thanks for the great feedback and comments everyone, I didn't expect to get so much great feedback! I will definitely take up a number of the suggestions and hopefully meet some of you at the various meet-ups and events (in Melbourne at lea
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Ask HN: Is there a Y Combinator equivalent in Australia?
35 points by DistortedRhymes 16y ago|22 comments
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by DistortedRhymes 16y ago
Techcrunch used to be my favourite site a few years back because (from what I can remember) it was very much about start-ups. Now its got all sorts of junk about general tech stuff, products, bla bla bla. If I had my way get rid of all thes
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by DistortedRhymes 17y ago
You seem to have left your thinking about a lot of important issues to too late. You seem to have assumed that you would be equal business partners when the two of you should have been smart enough to work all this out in advance. I don't s