joelg87

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Steady yourself, those world-changing thoughts are not productive(joel.is)
28 points by joelg87 16y ago|7 comments
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by joelg87 16y ago
I think you make a great point here. The thing I find interesting is that looking back it feels to me as though they did indeed get their first traction by carving a niche and being the best at one thing . In my mind, Posterous were the
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7 Twitter users worth following and why(blog.bufferapp.com)
4 points by joelg87 16y ago|0 comments
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by joelg87 16y ago
Hmm, I guess that is a little misleading. What I meant was to bootstrap by working "on the side" instead of "working in waves" (long stretch of full-time work to build up funds and then a long stretch of full-time on startup). That's the "w
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by joelg87 16y ago
Yes, that's a good point worth mentioning. I guess it's important to be very careful what you sign. I've known other people stuck in work with crazy employment agreements, I really don't understand it. Luckily I'm working on contract and I
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by joelg87 16y ago
That's a very good point. I guess if possible it is best to try and make your "day job" contract or freelance work with more flexibility than employment. That way you can to some extent dictate how you work, i.e. you can make it fairly clea
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Ways to bootstrap a startup: on the side(joel.is)
40 points by joelg87 16y ago|16 comments
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by joelg87 16y ago
Some really good points in here, and things I can relate to myself with my own experiences of getting a product off the ground (I'm still in the middle of that, so this serves as a nice reminder too!). Key take-aways for me: Let users t
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by joelg87 16y ago
Clickable: http://www.nsbasic.com/blog/?p=187
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The perfect tweet(blog.bufferapp.com)
9 points by joelg87 16y ago|6 comments
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by joelg87 16y ago
I was doing a small experiment yesterday whilst I had traffic. The page is now back to it's original design with the pricing take. Sorry for the confusion :)
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by joelg87 16y ago
FYI - the page is now back to normal after my small experiment - http://bufferapp.com/pricing
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by joelg87 16y ago
Hi Mark, a fellow brummie, I think we might even have met - I did a bit of work for Andy Higgs not too long ago. Firstly, my apologies for the lack of pricing information. There was pricing information until about 20 minutes ago, at which p
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by joelg87 16y ago
Hi! So far, I've had around 130 signups, 5 of which are paying. I launched last month with a tiny MVP, and built the features up around it as I learned there was demand. Since the launch, I've been making small fixes and adding a few tiny f
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by joelg87 16y ago
Thanks! I used Hootsuite for a long time and I really enjoyed using Sharefeed too, but there came a point when I thought it could be more streamlined and that's when I had the idea for Buffer. I'm still at the fairly early stages, I launche
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by joelg87 16y ago
Hi, I'm the founder so this will be a little biased :) I definitely agree that you can't respond immediately whilst you are sleeping, but it can still be effective if you are having a slightly more asynchronous conversation with people. I h
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Want to tweet while you sleep?(blog.bufferapp.com)
13 points by joelg87 16y ago|19 comments
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New Shoes. No Shoes.(baresoles.co.uk)
1 points by joelg87 16y ago|0 comments
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Questioning and adjusting our goals(joel.is)
19 points by joelg87 16y ago|0 comments
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by joelg87 16y ago
I really want to do something like this when I (hopefully) head over there for a few months later in the year. I'm stuck in the UK and desperate to get over to Silicon Valley to experience the optimistic and fail-fast attitude, since I've b
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by joelg87 16y ago
Thanks! I agree it's actually not too difficult to write, although there are a few complications when making it a service for many (timezones was the main one). I built it to scratch my own itch and also to put into practice all my learning
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by joelg87 16y ago
You just made my day. Thank-you!
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by joelg87 16y ago
I've not watched it yet (going to do that shortly whilst grabbing lunch), but I'm really looking forward to watching this particular interview as it strikes me as very much in line with some of the changes in my own thinking in the last few
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by joelg87 16y ago
Here is another: http://whatifgoogledoesit.com/
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by joelg87 16y ago
Yes, you're right - http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Internet_Movie_Database
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The Long Term Consequences of Your Short Term Actions(theskooloflife.com)
2 points by joelg87 16y ago|0 comments
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Is making mistakes a necessity for success?(joel.is)
3 points by joelg87 16y ago|2 comments
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by joelg87 16y ago
> can be miscontrued and made to seem like any old idea, well executed, will win I completely agree. Though I guess it depends what you define as "well executed" if it's just executing the tech behind the idea, then it's likely you end
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by joelg87 16y ago
I agree there's a lot of this talk happening right now. In my view, the point here isn't that ideas are worthless, it's that ideas are worthless without execution - this guy had an idea, and didn't act on it, and then saw a very similar i
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by joelg87 16y ago
Reading this makes me think of a similar experience I've had which really emphasised the point "Ideas are worth nothing without execution" for me. These days, people say it all the time, but to experience it is another thing. I'm starting t

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