jamesmcbennett

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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
Possibly, but that is just isolating the topic of motivation. A company with an indirect strategy with a world-changing mission and great corporate culture is likely to attract better talent in the first place which will perform better when
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
Theory of Obliquity by Prof John Kay at Oxford is really interesting. In lay terms it suggests that if you choose to lose weight for example (the direct route), you are unlikely to succeed. Alternatively, if you choose to become a great cyc
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
@thruflo I have a mild knowledge of open source, but never felt Opendesk nor Wikhouse ever truly embraced open source despite using the name for kudos, nor do I feel the team operate with a true open source mentality. The Creative commons s
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
They are awesome, I spent a couple months living with the Tom, renting a room in his flat before he setup Shutl.
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
Just setting up a shopify site. Had to do my first delivery (from a kickstarter) and courier messed quite a few things up, hence why I ask. Thanks for feedback.
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
did I do it right, don't think it worked.
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
(also how do you put a question in Ask HN?)
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Ask HN: Who do people use for e-commerce delivery? Recommendations/Experiences?
3 points by jamesmcbennett 13y ago|7 comments
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
Love their video. Also must be taken into account that many campaigns have strong existing communities such as this one.
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
Launchrock recently migrated their platform fabsie.com works launchrock.fabsie.com works www.fabsie.com seems to be broken. will figure it out as soon as I can.
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
Having a great idea is indeed a small part of the pie that won't take off unless you learn to hustle. Part of that is knowing the right people of which I felt I knew some relatively important people pre-kickstarter, but they didn'
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
They are ways to do Kickstarter even if you don't live in the US or UK, most involve a little extra cost of setting up a company or finding a friend you trust. (Have never done it)
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
Agree - there was a time when merely being on kickstarter was a news item and viral on social media.
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
I still have lots to add, but so much of this was alien to me previously. Would love to know your thoughts/additions/subtractions.
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What I learned from doing a Kickstarter(mcbennett.wordpress.com)
46 points by jamesmcbennett 13y ago|22 comments
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
I live in a postgraduate student residence that we are only allowed to sublet to alumni and friends/family of residents. Accepting that people have a need to sublet avoiding the cost of a empty room is combined with the community's need not
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Saturday Night Live talking about Google Glass(youtube.com)
2 points by jamesmcbennett 13y ago|0 comments
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UK move copying design from a civil offense to a criminal offense(dezeen.com)
1 points by jamesmcbennett 13y ago|0 comments
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by jamesmcbennett 13y ago
Goodluck everyone! Almost there! Being in London, this is like staying up late to watch the superbowl! :)
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by jamesmcbennett 14y ago
I presume everyone knows the birthday cake story. A small bakery allowed kids draw digitally that the bakery could print on the cake. As kids like to draw things they have seen or things they know, many drew characters of Disney. Disney mad
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by jamesmcbennett 14y ago
Was reading article comments, some are ridiculous!
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Vivek Wadhwa - Why I no longer advise startups to hire mba's(blogs.wsj.com)
1 points by jamesmcbennett 14y ago|1 comments
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by jamesmcbennett 14y ago
The killer app could be 'parametric' thereby needing digital-to-physical manufacturing such as 3D printing. For standard static items made in plastic, there are no signs what so ever that injection moulding will become redundant any time so
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by jamesmcbennett 14y ago
If you restrict the debate to the maker movement and people at home owning machines, I completely agree that the average joe can't own a large 8x4 3D cutter and never will, yet they can own a basic small format 3D printer. But the average j
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Video pitches are killing written applications. Video to Chevolet social media.(youtube.com)
1 points by jamesmcbennett 14y ago|0 comments
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by jamesmcbennett 14y ago
I think digital-to-physical manufacturing is so much bigger than 3D printing. http://fabsie.com/blog/3d-printing-vs-3d-cutting/ and that CNC routing (3D cutting) is likely to find killer apps far faster than 3D printing is capable.
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by jamesmcbennett 14y ago
No doubt that YC has a fast growing fan club, I know IDEO have to differenciate between the suitable employee vs. the fan club of which YC is likely to be the same. I have applied to YC this round, but I am confident we can build a business
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by jamesmcbennett 14y ago
I can connect you to http://www.deskgen.com/ who might be able to help?
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by jamesmcbennett 14y ago
I have always worked on the principle that entrepreneurs have 1000 ideas, choosing which idea to work on is the challenge. I presume YC attracts a certain target audience of generally 'people who build things.' . Wonder did YC without an id
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by jamesmcbennett 14y ago
Been to design-a-thon's (same, same but different) and haven't met anyone there to win, people enjoy working on a problem with others. There were prizes, but more as tokens, not anything worth shouting about.

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