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by brackin 14y ago
I think I've been receiving emails from you guys for about a year. I seem to remember the previous design being slightly more muted. It's a good market to tackle though, good luck with what you're doing.
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by brackin 14y ago
Congratulations, I'm interested to know how easy it is to raise money from Seedrs. Glad to hear a startup kept going after rejection and hopefully will continue to do so. I'm guessing you provided much more detail in your pitch and product
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by brackin 14y ago
Congrats, this is really awesome. We're building a crowd-funding site in the charity space. Where one can fund a project directly and relieve updates on project progress. So that your money is going directly to help.
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by brackin 14y ago
I know a lot of companies use Survey Monkey - http://www.surveymonkey.com To be honest I didn't understand what you did at first, the name didn't help. You don't want to be vague as you have to find out if you're actually solving a proble
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by brackin 14y ago
From the comments it sounds like a polling app. In which case no, some folks I've seen doing a very simple version of this use URL's like http://poll.cm , http://polls.io and http://gopollgo.com
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by brackin 14y ago
Who's to say that they spent the $41.m million? What ever's left will be returned. The fact that Apple bought them for $9M hints that Apple may be covering the amount they spent but even that is pretty hefty. The investors won't be able to
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by brackin 14y ago
YC is amazing because you have the time to just build, saying that it doesn't make all of the companies but if you give up after not getting in then they made the right decision. Drew Wilson would still have done well. Keep building and as
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by brackin 14y ago
There is little value in attending events with $3000 price tags. You get to hear Sean Parker speak, which is also posted online and they usually sneak speakers out of the back to a car or to the speakers lounge so that they don’t have to in
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by brackin 14y ago
Decisions seem to be based on public pressure or context. The man posting the picture of poppy's burning was arrested because it was Remembrance Day. Because of common law these cases are each setting precedence. Although many may believe i
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by brackin 14y ago
This is a great story. GoCardless is an example of a company that found a tough problem and executed upon it excellently in a completely different way to all of their competitors, allowing them to undercut everyone else. I'm seeing more UK
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by brackin 14y ago
I used to run a marketplace business and much of my role was getting in touch with partners to get them on our service. Obviously the value we added was key but I started A/B testing email to see if it made much of a difference. I found tha
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by brackin 14y ago
Buffer is a brilliant team and a catalyst for how SaaS companies should be ran. I started following Joel and then eventually Leo about a month after the first landing page went live and from then people I spoke to about it could see that th
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by brackin 14y ago
I found the original Google+ post more striking. If anyone wants to access that directly: https://plus.google.com/u/0/+SergeyBrin/posts/B9VnJXd6Rir This is a good move from Brin in my opinion, even though he can do little more than speak
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by brackin 14y ago
I know a few founders that have had to let people go after aggressively hiring. They've ended up fine but when they first raised their seed round they went out and hired a load of people. I do also know a few that are incredibly slow at hir
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by brackin 14y ago
Exactly, to all of the people worrying about the fact that he's 16. I don't think it's really him doing much of it. I've seen these deals happen before, where an investor gives someone some money, brings in their executive team and outsourc
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by brackin 14y ago
The key reason people use Instagram is not about filters. Which is why Hipstermatic which was far more popular at first let most of their employees go. There is a level of context around Instagram pictures. The cropped square image that is
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by brackin 14y ago
Their original app allowed you to paste the link of an article or any text and they'd summarise it. It didn't really work and this is trying to find a use for it. I'l be interested to see where they take it. From a company angle they seem t
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by brackin 14y ago
No because they also received value from me explaining what we're building and he was very interested by it. They are a much bigger market-leading competitor so it's not a case that people will deal with every day. I can understand why some
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by brackin 14y ago
I deal with this every day when I meet founders. They tell me that they're keeping their idea under-wraps because they don't want anyone to steal it or pass it on to someone who could. Not once has any of these people succeeded with this ap
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by brackin 14y ago
Most probably because of all of the press and Apple store feature. The feedback I've read has been mixed. It's definitely got more use than their first app but I'm not sure it fits into my usage pattern. I think the app looks great and has
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by brackin 14y ago
I don't think I've read a Mashable article about a startup in a long while. Really interesting company though, Google won't compete with this and it's a huge market. Facebook is the internet to a large percentage of the population.
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by brackin 14y ago
I completely agree. You sometimes hear in interviews partners talking about how some companies sometimes convince them of one thing but turn out to not be able to execute on their plans. As in they sound really convincing but don't really k
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by brackin 14y ago
What's even worse is that they announced their new SDK in June and haven't given it to developers until today, they have devices releasing in days.
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by brackin 14y ago
This is interesting, not sure that I'd pay $200 for a lightbulb and $60 for every additional bulb, which is actually worse. I estimate that it'd cost about $1500 to light my house. It might be something someone would buy for just their bedr
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by brackin 14y ago
Microsoft left it so late for developers to get on the platform. The consumer announcement was yesterday, the developer summit was in June! Yet there's been no SDK until today. Even Apple releases a number of beta's for developers. The firs
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by brackin 14y ago
This seems like a positive move considering people in parts of the East Coast don't have an internet connection right now. Will the reviews process will be pushed back too? Good luck to everyone applying.
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by brackin 14y ago
If I was an ex-Zynga employee, the easiest way to get revenge without getting blamed and possibly sued is to blame anonymous. Because anyone can be anonymous.
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by brackin 14y ago
Agreed but there's a difference between being on video and someone writing about your talk. Some people just don't like the pressure of a talk being recorded and prefer people to write about the general talk if they want to write about it.
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by brackin 14y ago
Maybe not controversial but just talking about portfolio companies or commenting on them directly can be risky when you have a big fund and LP's to deal with.
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by brackin 14y ago
I'm guessing he was just open and honest to all of the founders and sometimes being open when you run a huge VC firm is a risky challenge. So not recording it means he can offer insights without a clip of it going on TechCrunch.

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