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541.
by adw 16y ago
Tesco's one of the world's most profitable retailers (I think it's #4 globally) and ASDA is a subsidiary of Wal-Mart. London's just a special case - where do you put an out-of-town superstore in zones 1 or 2 of the Tube map?
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Rise of the European Superangel(freddestin.com)
2 points by adw 16y ago|0 comments
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by adw 16y ago
Classic example: the entire clearing system is eventually consistent. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Clearing_(finance)
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by adw 16y ago
The original article is more focussed on "I've just got a new job", where there isn't your current salary as a peg. It's going to be a lot harder to negotiate given that. What you have to do is somehow reframe the conversation in terms of w
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by adw 16y ago
As a founder, and therefore Mr Cost Control, I hope you never , ever read http://valerieaurora.org/howto_salary/ . :) Here's Val Aurora's "short version", but you should really read the whole thing; 1. Negotiate! It will almost never hu
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by adw 16y ago
(I wrote the original link, and I'm one of Timetric's founders.) Absolutely. So if you're building a service around this, like what Timetric, or ManyEyes, or any of the other services which include social visualization; or you're supplying
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Ethics, data and visualization(blog.timetric.com)
19 points by adw 16y ago|2 comments
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by adw 16y ago
London or Berlin are where all the action is in consumer and B2B web startups. They're where the money and markets are. If you're doing something connected with the media or financial industries, then I think there's a very good case that L
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by adw 16y ago
Cambridge is a great place for hardware and biotech. It's alright for enterprise software. It's downright poor for web. (We moved Timetric from Cambridge to London towards the end of last year.)
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by adw 16y ago
And if you look at the Born Digital website they're based in Enfield. If they're the designer, then they're only local if he's running for the Greater London Assembly. Last I checked we didn't have a congress. I think you've fingered the wr
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by adw 16y ago
My heart's going out to you here. First and foremost, I've got to say that. What I'm going to say next is going to sound dreadful. Being there may help - may well help - but you've got to be prepared, because if you aren't, it won't. Love i
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by adw 16y ago
If the valuation of the company is higher than the VCs invested at (post-money), then assuming something screwy isn't going on with the pref structures in earlier rounds - ie, there aren't any or they're 1x non-participating, plus the round
553.
by adw 16y ago
Depends if the prefs are participating or non-participating. Most of the rounds I've heard of recently here (UK, early stage) have been non-participating.
554.
by adw 16y ago
I think you'd find a broad consensus among founders and VCs that 1x non-participating is pretty much entirely fair (and standard!) the whole time. Other pref structures often mean that either the VC had the upper hand in negotiations or tha
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by adw 16y ago
This is tangential, but I drive two of my favourite web apps almost entirely through email (Tripit and Highrise) and a third (Instapaper) quite a bit. I basically live in Instapaper and Highrise, so that's saying something. I have email lit
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by adw 16y ago
This is why the media and information markets are so compelling. Find an existing entrenched player, identify the disruptive technology they used to enter the market (often it's something like motorcycle couriers), identify the technology w
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by adw 16y ago
RedGate are bootstrapped.
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by adw 16y ago
The thing is, there aren't actually that many file types which you'd want to open in multiple programs. Maybe fifteen or so which you'd expect to do data interchange with - a handful of picture formats, ditto movies, ditto audio, ditto text
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by adw 16y ago
This is a case where, I reckon, if the mouse is the answer, we're asking the wrong question. What's better than the mouse? Not shoehorning everything we want to do with computing into the form factor of "a computer". OK, this is going off i
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by adw 16y ago
The mouse is an unnatural abstraction. Just because it was better than everything else at the time - and it was - doesn't make it anything other than a spooky indirection. We get this kind of thing because our superpower is dealing with spo
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by adw 16y ago
A PhD takes about six weeks. Maybe three months. It takes at least three years to work out which six weeks. (I'm speaking from experience.)
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by adw 16y ago
Amen. There are, obviously, some population differences between men and women; for instance, on average men are taller. Blame the hormones. But people confuse mean and variance, and this is one case where instinctive ignorance of probabilit
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by adw 16y ago
http://vimeo.com/8995197 (done in 2006, so a little dated). Disclaimer - Sean Park is one of our investors.
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by adw 16y ago
We're on Django; there is a relational DB in our architecture, but when you're browsing the site you're nearly always hitting either Solr or a key-value store. But why wouldn't you use a relational database? It works, the ORM's good, it's
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by adw 16y ago
Google Spreadsheets (and the stuff coming down the pike like Google Fusion Tables) is, though. Really, you're competing with Excel (plus custom styles/plugins) and with Google Docs, I reckon.
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by adw 16y ago
In that case you're in a head-on battle with the Google Visualization API and a couple of other players - iCharts ( http://www.icharts.net/ ), Wondergraphs etc. There's definitely something in this space, though.
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by adw 16y ago
Our experience (at Timetric) is that selling visualization as a direct benefit is a real challenge. The people who know what a boxplot is are comfortable with Origin or R or whatever: everything else either doesn't care, or doesn't know the
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by adw 16y ago
I'm the biz cofounder at Timetric, so I've spent quite a bit of time on local and transatlantic phonecalls and taking meetings. We're a really technical company, though; the three of us who founded it met as postdoc researchers doing mate
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by adw 16y ago
I'm pretty sure the only legal connection is Peter Sunde himself. Flattr's UK ops are based out of our (shared) office, White Bear Yard.
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by adw 16y ago
I like Radiohead. I don't much like the Spice Girls. Any criteria I could give you for why this is true, for me, is ultimately subjective.

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