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by apexauk 18y ago
no way..you actually did just register it.. :D well happy to help, glad noone beat you to it!
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by apexauk 18y ago
plus points for not naming it ticketstumblr..
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by apexauk 18y ago
"How much will my startup be worth in 3 years?" "Definately." Hmm.. should really repeat and average.. "Will my startup be worth megabucks in 3 years?" "Yes." Sweet - I like this one.
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by apexauk 18y ago
the same thing occurred to me after reading the first half of your comment..
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by apexauk 18y ago
This reads particularly well to me. Are his sources valid? Can anyone with more knowledge on the subject suggest whether this guy's talking sense?
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by apexauk 18y ago
I've studied @ Oxford, have friends at Imperial and Cambridge. Not sure how to say where's "best".. however there's big differences in approach/material studied. Oxford is small (~20 undergrads/year doing straight CS) and the courses are ex
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by apexauk 18y ago
I'd find it very interesting to find out about anyone else's experiences linking home-schooling and startups (or, what makes for an entrepreneurial mindset..) I was home-schooled till 11, when I entered school in a class a year ahead of my
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by apexauk 18y ago
Linkedin: $53M @ $1BN valuation - 23M 'active monthly users', $100M/year revenue Slide: $50M @ $550M valuation - "134M global unique visitors/month", ..revenue? Meebo: $25M @ ~$200M - ~2M monthly uniques, ~$1M revenue (I think - recall read
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Msn.co.uk MX tag..broken? hacked?
1 points by apexauk 18y ago|0 comments
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by apexauk 18y ago
all good sense.. we'll be looking at memcached soon, and our use of Propel should make it easy to integrate caching into the ORM like you suggest. Question, though: I admit i've not given this much thought, but isn't the hard part working o
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by apexauk 18y ago
i disagree with the sentiment here - specifically "If you can't afford to do it right, don't do it at all." which i've understood to mean "if you can't afford to pay a lawyer [on day one], don't start a company". to clarify, by "pre externa
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by apexauk 18y ago
good questions - i understand most of them were kinda rhetorical, but for the purposes of useful discussion: our app is generally more reads, but we're optimising different parts depending on the read/write balance. mix of innodb & myis
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by apexauk 18y ago
have vesting, definately - along with a cliff that means people have to stick around long enough to produce something of value before they get to "take home" any equity at all. if you're just starting out, and pre-outside investment, my adv
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by apexauk 18y ago
also good for optimising that side of things is http://www.thinkvitamin.com/features/webapps/serving-javascr... - and in fact Cal Henderson's whole book has been a great read - http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0596102356
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by apexauk 18y ago
interesting link.. thanks
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Ask YC: Speeding up PHP
10 points by apexauk 18y ago|14 comments
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by apexauk 19y ago
Or any other europeans, for that matter? :)
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by apexauk 19y ago
Seed funding schemes (YC, Seedcamp) are not about training people per-se. They're not about making people become good product managers or good businesspeople. (although obviously people on these schemes are going to require some of these
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by apexauk 19y ago
Sorry, missed this and couldn't let it go.. :) "Putting your hands into a launch-focused incubator is risky, from the startup's perspective." This risk is what...that you might launch?
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by apexauk 19y ago
"that's an easy comment to make that very much fits the zeitgeist" .. "'build it and the money will come' strategies fail" Hold on - the point I'm making was not the cliche "build it and they [customers, users, investors] will come. The poi
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by apexauk 19y ago
"These cooks probably start finding roles for themselves..." Nicely put! I agree.
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by apexauk 19y ago
I was discussing Seedcamp the other night.. the issue is (and here's why I think YC has it spot-on) at the micro-seed-funding stage (which it is, exactly like YC) the most important thing is the idea/product/demo. Whereas YC has teams worki
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by apexauk 19y ago
provocative..but he's right. not going to be quick nor easy, but here in Europe we're comin' atcha!
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by apexauk 19y ago
is air worthless, or _price_less?
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The British are coming!(techcrunch.com)
1 points by apexauk 19y ago|0 comments
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Web Mission '08 - UK Startups to visit Silicon Valley(uk.techcrunch.com)
1 points by apexauk 19y ago|0 comments
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by apexauk 19y ago
the first guy is currently learning rails in order to make a start on his first startup, but appreciates that ultimately he 's gonna be rather disadvantaged trying to code something complex with no experience. the second guy is not "on the
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by apexauk 19y ago
"But it's completely youthful naivety to think this is the right way to cofound a business together.".. Perhaps not the ideal way, if you already have a big database of contacts you should probably go through that first, yes. But I co-found
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by apexauk 19y ago
I co-founded our startup after reading an ad for a hacker and convincing the other guy to take me on as a partner instead of employee - we met for the first time 2 years ago to talk about the startup that would be, today we've got an angel-
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by apexauk 19y ago
i slept 12 hours out of 85 this week.. but then caught up just now so it's 25 out of 100 - or averaging 6 hours a night. i can't fit my sleep within a standard 24 hour period - in particular i find it hard sleeping twice within 18 hours. bu

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