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by adw 16y ago
In all seriousness, if you've got a local-business section you think might benefit from statistics, we need to talk. (No, I'm not trying to sell you anything.) Email me: andrew@timetric.com.
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by adw 16y ago
One thing you've got to accept, though, is that if you're in this to make a really good company, you're going to hurt people. You're going to make people redundant. Your company is going to destroy someone else's value. It might create more
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by adw 16y ago
One of my cofounders committed this crime against nature: http://github.com/tow/fox Yes, an XML parser in Fortran. Seriously, for data exchange between solid-state physics codes, writing this was the best option available. Occasionally pe
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by adw 16y ago
At Timetric: Amazon AWS (EC2, S3, Cloudfront) (plus a little bit of Google App Engine) GitHub (source control) Pivotal Tracker (dev team backlog) Highrise (biz dev tracking) Mailchimp (mailing lists) Moo (printable stuff - largely business
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by adw 16y ago
What you say isn't wrong here, but it's one-eyed. Specifically, it's much more true in consumer than B2B. In B2B, biz dev is building partnerships, channels, distribution, obtaining resources you need at prices you can afford, all that go
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by adw 16y ago
Most people's main computer won't be a computer, it'll be a games console and a Tivo-niche filler (maybe the same thing, it's Sony vs Microsoft vs Apple vs the cable and satellite companies, and a pox on all their houses) paired with a smar
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by adw 16y ago
Geim's the guy who levitated the frog: "Geim shared the 2000 Ig Nobel Prize with Sir Michael Berry of Bristol University, for levitating the frog. His award of the Nobel Prize for Physics in 2010 made him the first person to win an Ig follo
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by adw 16y ago
I pretty much entirely disagree with that. OK, this is a product hire rather than engineering, but this is us: http://www.guardian.co.uk/media/pda/2010/sep/22/timetric-fin... We're obviously delighted, and it wasn't easy, but it can be do
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by adw 16y ago
End of this month...
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They're taught in secondary schools in Scotland. (Or at least they were when I did CSYS Maths (Pure), now Advanced Higher...)
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by adw 16y ago
The Betfair IPO about to get off (at a roughly $2bn valuation, which is pretty fair for a category killer in a huge business like sports gambling) is entirely insider sales, no new issues, and will be something like 10%-15% of the company
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by adw 16y ago
Moving averages – yes, though it's tricky to get to them right now. The remainder: watch this space.
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by adw 16y ago
Depends on the niche. Have a look and see what typical keywords you expect to wind up on your site garner on AdWords; if you can attract eyeballs for less than, say, 40% of that price (to allow for Google's margins) – including your time or
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by adw 16y ago
Sure, but in that case, the website is a marketing campaign for something else, not a product. (We're not disagreeing, really, it just depends on how you're setting the scope.)
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by adw 16y ago
Everything makes money by selling something, whether directly or indirectly. There are something like five things you can sell via or over the Web: i) sell products which you buy or make yourself (ecommerce) ii) sell services which you gene
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by adw 16y ago
Nope, that's Tim Harford ("the Undercover Economist"): http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/programmes/more_or_less/1628489.s... .
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by adw 16y ago
And written by Aaron ("A Few Good Men", "The West Wing", the hugely underrated "Sports Night") Sorkin.
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by adw 16y ago
msy: no, our primary market's people who want macro/socioeconomic/industry data – and, yes, that includes journalists (our friends at the Guardian Data Blog have done some really nice work using Timetric). It's more explaining the thought-p
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by adw 16y ago
No chance - my parents still are. It's cause they love us, really...
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by adw 16y ago
I'd actually love to give you a concrete example but, well, commercial confidentiality. We'll be launching paid services very soon. But if you look at the public macro on timetric.com - we've got something like 1.6m freely-available time se
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by adw 16y ago
Yep. http://www.lexical.org.uk/science/thesis/ . But then it's less far than you'd think. The starting-point for most of the ideas in the Timetric platform for us cofounders was building tools for scientists (who aren't programming special
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by adw 16y ago
Index the world's economy. Specifically all the bits people will pay for insight into. :)
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by adw 16y ago
My mum taught me BASIC. Ironically, I don't actively program any more...
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The other important thing to realise about London: Use the buses. Really. In most American cities, the bus network is just grim. In London, it's something everyone uses the whole time, so it has a budget, it's (relatively) clean, and it get
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by adw 16y ago
Reading the article, you can certainly argue that Dopplr didn't have the adoption curve they hoped for. They get money, they get to do something new (one founder's a partner at BERG London, who are pretty kick-ass). The users? Sure. But it'
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by adw 16y ago
The thing is: the Dopplr founders, early staff, and investors all likely made money. Whatever you call it, that's hardly a bad result for them... OK, bad day for Nokia. Dopplr's fault? Nope.
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There are some big and new projects in Perl out there (BBC iPlayer for one – which is an enormously high-traffic site). The real issue is that a language dies when new people stop learning it. Python's the language-du-jour of programming ed
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by adw 16y ago
People have touched on this, including the parent article, but this needs stating in BIG SHOUTY CAPITALS: PhDs are the last mediaeval guild apprenticeship standing, with all the ceremony and all the anachronism that implies. Seriously. You'
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Mining for strained metaphor (prospecting as a metaphor for startups)(withpretext.com)
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by adw 16y ago
I think you'd find quite a bit of support from us Europeans, actually – even the ones, like me, who are probably a bit to the right of you politically. I'm not a card-carrying member of any political party, but the American rhetoric on soci

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