jamescoops

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by jamescoops 19y ago
yeah venturevoice rocks some of the webmaster radio shows are good - Net Income, SEO Rockstars
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by jamescoops 19y ago
interesting stuff - SMO, SEO is so interesting - would like to see more posts on this on YC.
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by jamescoops 19y ago
the key thing for them is breaking out of the early-adopter niche into the mainstream (scaling audience) not the business model
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by jamescoops 19y ago
he got divorced and left Yahoo to do a mobile startup - Mowser - its a great service. one of the best mobile developers in the US...
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by jamescoops 19y ago
its a great bit of kit but too expensive, especially as they'll be better versions in 6 months I'll keep my Sony Ericsson
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by jamescoops 19y ago
In East London, bootstrapping a social mobile music thing :-)
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by jamescoops 19y ago
great link bait
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by jamescoops 19y ago
from what i hear your own shortcode doesnt matter as people generally dont remember them anyway they just read them online/ on paper and text them
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Do we need to think beyond the PC to really innovate?(trendcatching.com)
1 points by jamescoops 19y ago|0 comments
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by jamescoops 19y ago
I think you need to distinguish between a niche social network and a niche community. Social networking is effectively a specific bundle of features (profiles, friend/ buddy-lists) but there are a raft of social features that can be deploy
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by jamescoops 19y ago
If the mobile operators could charge 50% of mobile users $15 a month extra for a flat rate data plan it would dwarf any revenues they could get from trying to run services themselves (ringtones, video etc is peanuts for most operators). Pl
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by jamescoops 19y ago
It's all about the Mxit guys in SA - lightyears ahead
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by jamescoops 19y ago
good stuff - no RSS feed on the site :-(
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by jamescoops 19y ago
http://www.urban75.com
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by jamescoops 19y ago
they've made a lot of improvements since the beta release - i think it's going to do well. As far as i know the development team has equity stakes etc so its more offshore than outsourced but yeah the technology is pretty impressive.
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by jamescoops 19y ago
It's a Social TV Aggregator that's due for a full public launch this summer. It's looking really promising.
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TIOTI - this could be the Next Big Thing from the UK(tapeitofftheinternet.com)
1 points by jamescoops 19y ago|3 comments
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by jamescoops 19y ago
isn't this the guy who used to do Mobilecrunch - if so dont hold your breath - he didnt used to post much and what he did post was dull.
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by jamescoops 19y ago
not really seen anyone properly blogging stuff this round like Boso crew did last time, apart from a few posts from Remember Me
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by jamescoops 19y ago
you're better off using wap/ mobile XHMTL
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by jamescoops 19y ago
He definately does a lot of very commercial stuff certainly but I think that's useful to know about if you're building something cool/ valuable/ fun if you want to monetise or promote it. Also he built Auction Ads recently which is a real
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by jamescoops 19y ago
I love these online marketing sites - you really learn a lot about SEO, monetising users and so on. It's a great change from reading techcrunch reviews and that kind of thing.
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Anyone else a Shoemoney fan? Great reading for startups(shoemoney.com)
1 points by jamescoops 19y ago|3 comments
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by jamescoops 19y ago
this guy killed his credibility by using AliG as an avatar
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by jamescoops 19y ago
nice one - i agree the plain white background look is a good mod for myspace
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by jamescoops 19y ago
So a lot of web apps/ sites have a myspace. I've not seen any really good ones that really use the profile to pull people into the site content and so on.
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Any one got examples of good myspace pages for web apps/ sites?
2 points by jamescoops 19y ago|4 comments
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by jamescoops 20y ago
thanks - it seems quite complex - what time period to vest over, how to do the contracts.
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by jamescoops 20y ago
Ok so if you're looking to use equity to build your team but already have a product, brand, some traction what's the best way to give away equity to co-founders? Obviously you can't just say here's X% of the stock - what if they leave next
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What's the best way of giving away equity to co-founders e.g. on specific targets met, options, vesting etc?
2 points by jamescoops 20y ago|4 comments

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