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by ig1 10y ago
I imagine because most open source ones lack the features required (compliance, security, activedirectory support, audit, etc.)
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by ig1 10y ago
Data Scientists, Data Engineers, Growth & Product Analysts MarketInvoice | London, UK Smart analytical thinker ? MarketInvoice wants you. The rate that a startup learns is what drives it's success. We want to hire people who can he
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by ig1 10y ago
You're imagining IP to be things like the coca-cola recipes, but the reality is much more complex than that especially in tech where the valuable IP is learnings. Say you ran the marketing campaign at X and through extensive testing yo
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by ig1 10y ago
Previously from Comodo: http://www.pcworld.com/article/2887632/secure-advertising-to...
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by ig1 10y ago
It depends on the type of fund. For VC funds almost all deal origination is referral or outbound, virtually none is cold inbound. For seed accelerators the majority is cold inbound. 500Startups sits in a slightly odd category between those
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by ig1 10y ago
Insight Analysts | MarketInvoice | London, UK (we've hired two people from HN) https://www.marketinvoice.com/ We're looking for people who combine a passion for data with a passion for business/growth. You ca
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by ig1 10y ago
In this case it's messy because DB problems are caused by a US government fine, a fine that realistically they wouldn't have imposed on a major US bank. So it's less about individual bank performance but rather international
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by ig1 10y ago
It'll vary by country but in the UK sales tax (VAT) is generally paid based on the invoice date: https://www.gov.uk/vat-record-keeping/time-of-supply-or-tax-... You can do cash-based accounting and pay only when y
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by ig1 10y ago
I work for a peer-to-peer factoring marketplace startup ( http://marketinvoice.com ) so I can shed some more light on it. Typically we charge between 1%-3% for a 30 day advance. A couple of common scenarios in the tech industry: 1
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by ig1 10y ago
You're approaching hiring from the wrong angle. You're looking at evidence and letting that decide what you hiring criteria should be, when what you should be doing is the exact opposite. Start with writing a set of criteria for t
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by ig1 10y ago
It's not just the cost of reviews though. Most new journals take decades to become break-even, they're typically subsidized by cashcow journals (big names with good reputations which bring in solid revenue). Launching a new journa
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by ig1 10y ago
You're thinking like a developer. You see Slack as a realtime chat protocol and think there's already a million solutions. You need to think about it in a business context. Pre-slack virtually no businesses used realtime group cha
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by ig1 10y ago
Except there's no evidence for that, it's been thrown around by the media as it's a good story but the data doesn't support that hypothesis. Pensioners voted heavily for leave and they've benefited hugely over the l
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by ig1 10y ago
IIRC 23andme gives you a very specific "agree for this data to be used for medical research" consent prompt.
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by ig1 10y ago
Spotify. Just-Eat. King. Skype. Transferwise. Everyone of them was founded in the EU but became a billion dollar startup while headquartered in London. Developers, product managers, founders - it's hard to find any startup of size in L
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by ig1 10y ago
I don't know what you think happens when paypal/bank/etc freezes an accounts but they don't get to keep the money, normally it gets refunded to the source of income (i.e customer refund), transferred to the government (i
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Criteo says its rival SteelHouse ran a 'counterfeit click fraud scheme'(uk.businessinsider.com)
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by ig1 10y ago
O1 is a fairly common visa type for startup founders
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by ig1 10y ago
Call your (ex-)customers and ask them.
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by ig1 10y ago
At my company (London based startup) we always call references to get a verbal reference and ask specific questions (what were their main weaknesses, what's the best way to manage them to get the best out of them, etc.) rather than ask
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by ig1 10y ago
It was this paragraph: Since any potential employer can't rely on a candidate's certificate/degree to indicate that they actually knows the material (or can apply it), they are forced into retesting every candidate (i.e. the
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by ig1 10y ago
And on a few more: Jury Board: SaaS note taking to enrichment (third-party api) to ML; solid long term strategy. Real user interest. With a large unique dataset you could essentially build a monopoly business. Founder seems to understand th
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by ig1 10y ago
I don't disagree on the size of market, but you need to do a bottom up analysis and not just a top down one. Very few businesses which aren't inherently social/viral manage to make social media, referral, etc. channels scale
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by ig1 10y ago
I didn't get a chance to read all of them but this was my reasoning on the ones I read: (note I'm excluding founder background from evaluation as almost none of the posts mention it; but it's generally considered a key factor
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by ig1 10y ago
One of the fundamental principles that's coming out of a century of hiring research is you have to evaluate candidates on the same basis - any other approach is an invitation to bias and subjective decisions. If you evaluate two simila
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by ig1 11y ago
A couple of questions: How do you know people will want to use such a service, have you tried manually running the process to see how it works in practice ? What do you expect your user economics to be (how are you planning to acquire users
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by ig1 11y ago
I believe it depends on the nature of the investment and your relationship with the US. For example I believe in your situation you'd have to pay US taxes on dividends from US companies.
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by ig1 11y ago
I think what OP meant is that there are reasons for companies to be off-shore which are totally above board. A common reason that investment funds are in off-shore tax-havens is because they have lots of international investors. If the fund
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by ig1 11y ago
The problem with this model is lack of both supply and demand. On the supply side the revenues are relatively low restaurants amortise costs across lots of customers which someone hosting in their house can't really do, so they either
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by ig1 11y ago
You realize that an API fronting service like Mashery alone would cost them several hundred thousand dollars ? It's not something you hacked up in a weekend in your basement. It's something that requires project managers, business

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