IanOzsvald

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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
Horacio (exec director) today announced the changes that I'd hinted at yesterday (I didn't know this was happening when I posted yesterday). Changes being rolled in: * Mentorship - try to provide mentors for all * Traction Groups - get comp
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
Just to keep things connected a week later (June 27th+) a critique with pros/cons of StartupChile was posted here: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4171252
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
I spent today (Thursday) talking with the Executive Director (Horacio) and a few of the senior staff members. I presented this morning on Lean Startup processes for the newly-arrived. I'm in Round 2, I've been giving feedback for months to
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
Me again (Round 2) - I spent 2 days doing the first reimbursement (following instructions, taking advice from Round 1 people) and then 1 day or less for each subsequent monthly meeting (including having the meeting). Write-up from a few mon
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
The Round 4 application process was discussed here a week back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4158967 It has discussion from Round 2+3 people on the pros and cons of the programme. Sidenote - I knew Liis (she's lovely), her concerns
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
To clarify the theft issue (I'm Round 2, almost finished here now). At the start the co-working CMI office was safe, we guess that no 'regular folk' knew about it. Now it is better known and there's no access control (there are security guy
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
Certainly coming here I've realised that I ought to consider non-English languages (particularly Spanish) for web apps. Most folks here in Chile don't speak much English yet their middle class has a growing disposable income. LatAm's power
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
I should clarify - if coming from the UK you'll want more cash than if coming from the US. In the UK the Chilean work visa costs £1220 (the highest in the world from memory - set by the govt., nothing to do with startupchile). Flights were
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
@jot (from Round 1) made some great comments a few months back: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3810821 I added a few notes too (I'm Round 2) - definitely think more along the lines of £10kGBP (about $15k) if you want to have a smooth
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by IanOzsvald 14y ago
Just to note that this was done by our intern for our AI platform, its a nice little library that automates a badly documented training process (Python).
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Building a self-mentorship group at StartupChile(ianozsvald.com)
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Request for feedback: Our first OCR matching API (StrongSteam in StartupChile)(ianozsvald.com)
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by IanOzsvald 15y ago
In addition, here are 3 blog posts which might help: http://ianozsvald.com/2012/02/20/startupchile-pycon-strongst... http://ianozsvald.com/2012/03/24/this-week-in-startups-stron... http://ianozsvald.com/2012/03/30/2nd-dataai-meetup-off
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by IanOzsvald 15y ago
Our padrino has been ace - we drink with him every week and he drove me to the FIDAE air show last Saturday. We seem to be an exception, many others only meet their padrino(/madrina) once or twice. As ever if you put time into a new relatio
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by IanOzsvald 15y ago
As @jot's friend, member of Round 2.5 and Emily's other half I'll add: reimbursements took 2 days for us the first time and 1 day the second time. The first time it took about 20 days for the money to come back, the second time about 10 day
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by IanOzsvald 15y ago
@jot's a friend of mine, we ( http://strongsteam.com/ ) followed out in January in Round 2.5. His notes match my experiences and those of others here in Round 2.5. A group of us have just started a weekly self-mentorship group, frankly I sh
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by IanOzsvald 15y ago
Our round (Round 2) and @jot's (Round 1) each had 100+ companies, I believe another 100 arrive this/next week with Round 3 and we'll expect a similar nbr for Round 4. In Round 2 & 3 there were 600 applicants with properly-completed form
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by IanOzsvald 15y ago
I agree that many people here haven't launched in a public way. We ( http://strongsteam.com/ ) have some closed alpha users and add more every few weeks, we'll be months before hitting beta. There are however a nice set (10%?) who have
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by IanOzsvald 15y ago
I'll echo @jot, we're another UK team (Round 2, been here 8 weeks). The pricing is similar to Brighton back home (smaller than London on the south coast), we get a 2 bed very nice apartment for £850UKP equivalent (though we pay a £100 exc
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by IanOzsvald 15y ago
'excludes' scipy in that the numpy C API won't be available so there's a massive hill to climb (as best I understand it) to support most of scipy. Re. getting the pypy team to do the whole port - agree that'd be entirely unrealistic! Re. in
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by IanOzsvald 15y ago
I spoke with Travis on Friday at Enthought and he opened my eyes to some of the possible problems of the pypy-numpy effort (which I've started discussing: http://mail.python.org/pipermail/pypy-dev/2011-October/00860... ). I hadn't realise
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by IanOzsvald 16y ago
One obvious point - startupbritain is about general startups (there's no requirement for tech-only startups on their site). @jot's jfdibritain has a decidedly tech focus, it doesn't help with e.g. manufacturing (when someone wants to make s
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by IanOzsvald 16y ago
As rwmj mentions below - avoiding the sums that sanity check the business could be an expensive mistake. Doing the sums is easy (and if you can't make up rough numbers, you ought to ask if you really know your domain). I'm not advocating a
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by IanOzsvald 16y ago
Follow the Inspiring Stories under Getting Inspiration - most are not tech-startup focused. Also look at 'About Us' and read the bios. I'd argue that 'startup' for the government relates to any new small business, not just a tech/web focuse
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by IanOzsvald 16y ago
Here's a further demo showing a social graph (Twitter friend relations at a BarCamp) with an image hack on ProtoVis' directed force graph: http://ianozsvald.com/2010/10/05/visualising-lanyrds-social-... It works great in Chrome/Safari and
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22,937* faster Python math using pyCUDA(ianozsvald.com)
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by IanOzsvald 16y ago
Headroid's author here - yes, the background skills took a fair while to acquire. As a kid (I'm 34 now) my late father (hardcore electrical engineer) used to bring home electronics junk so I could build robots aged 10 (solder+Commodore 64 j
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Open Allure DS conversational interface (using Python)(blog.aicookbook.com)
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How I'm writing The Screencasting Handbook(ianozsvald.com)
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The Future of Screencasting(thescreencastinghandbook.com)
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