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Zebra companies offer an alternative to the unicorn fantasy(qz.com)
1 points by jot 10y ago|0 comments
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by jot 10y ago
Here's one alternative: http://v1.indie.vc/
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by jot 10y ago
I recommend https://quaderno.io/ used them with four different kinds of business running through Stripe including a SaaS doing > $1 million ARR. Works great and their customer support is excellent.
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by jot 10y ago
I recommend using https://www.promoter.io/ to measure NPS. It's a brilliant starting point for getting useful feedback too. I've ended up using it for the conference and coworking community that I run as well as f
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by jot 11y ago
Reminds me of this approach: http://everyonecanprogram.com/ UK schools are teaching programming with marble runs.
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by jot 11y ago
It is exciting. Work is always going to be the default activity but you should have a read of this: http://whatiscoworking.com/ Note this is Coworking without the hyphen, sadly lots of self described "co-working"
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by jot 11y ago
It's like http://workatjelly.com/ but paid rather than free. It's great to see more people taking this approach to creating coworking communities. This is how many of the world's best coworking spaces started
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by jot 11y ago
Yes: http://www.microconfeurope.com/
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by jot 11y ago
They found my 2007 email to Steve: http://jonathanmarkwell.com/2013/08/23/me-and-steve-ballmer-... ;)
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by jot 12y ago
Could work on this have started before Steve Ballmer left? Maybe he took my 2007 email to him more seriously that his response let on: http://jonathanmarkwell.com/2013/08/23/me-and-steve-ballmer-...
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by jot 12y ago
Worth every penny. I find it staggering that so many people make cost the biggest factor in their choice of ISP. The last two years of being an Andrews and Arnold customer have been my happiest with an ISP.
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by jot 12y ago
VAT support could be a good price differentiator in the EU. A VAT registered company should be turning over so much that this cost is negligible. I'd recommend against price per invoice. Most businesses prefer fixed, predictable costs
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by jot 12y ago
Good stuff! It's still not pulled in any payments for me (I tried reconnecting). On the VAT rate it wouldn't matter which way I (or other customers) preferred to do it. That decision would have already been made when the payment w
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by jot 12y ago
Fantastic value proposition with perfect timing. Three companies I'm working with need a solution to this problem in the next 10 days. I would literally have paid for three $24 subscriptions by now but sadly it failed to meet my expect
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by jot 12y ago
PG has a guide if you're more broadly interested in seeing Silicon Valley: http://paulgraham.com/seesv.html
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by jot 13y ago
Do startups at a similar stage usually measure things as diligently as Everpix seem to have done? If they kept an eye on of all this on a monthly or weekly basis while they were still running would they have been doing too much or too littl
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Uncensored Everpix metrics, financials and slides(github.com)
597 points by jot 13y ago|157 comments
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by jot 13y ago
Here is a London equivalent: http://roundabout.io/
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Me and Steve Ballmer in 2007(blog.jonathanmarkwell.com)
1 points by jot 13y ago|0 comments
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by jot 13y ago
Seems very similar to the way many successful SaaS businesses operate. Charging larger businesses $200/month with big margins makes it viable to provide $20/month 'freelancer' plans with low margins.
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by jot 13y ago
Any thoughts on how this could be used as a low cost surveying tool to find sources of WiFi interference? We've been considering getting one of these: http://www.metageek.net/products/wi-spy/ It would be grea
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by jot 13y ago
Beautiful design is an optimisation. It's far better to ship the book now and add the design later than it is to hold off shipping the book because the design isn't yet good enough for a subset of potential customers.
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by jot 13y ago
You're right, it is not a proof. But in my experience there are very few people who are both smart enough to spot opportunities to copy and have the time to do so when they see them. I'd go as far as to estimate that those people
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by jot 13y ago
Very happy to hear that. Please feel free to re-write/copy chunks of it for another audience, all I ask is that you link back to it :)
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by jot 13y ago
You and I might choose Basecamp but it's amazing how many people refuse to use it for silly reasons like "It doesn't have gant charts". Many of the competitors that have launched and have fallen into obscurity from your
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by jot 13y ago
No worries. I was confrontational in my post. Let me clarify: I'm not saying MVP (or pre-profit product) developers should ignore accessibility. I'm saying they shouldn't spend too high a portion of their time worrying about
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by jot 13y ago
These are great points. Most developers I know find that the most difficult part of product development is sales. Design is also difficult but I'd recommend treating it as a process rather than a project when it comes to new products i
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by jot 13y ago
Yes there is a risk but it is very small, particularly for the sort of products that web developers build. This is why you should not do all singing all dancing PR launches too early, releases are different. If you do a big PR launch too ea
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by jot 13y ago
It makes me very happy that I am never going to convince people like you that accessibility is optional. I can't convince myself of it either when it comes to profitable products. We need more people like you running profitable busines
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by jot 13y ago
It's your perception of them that they are evolutions of an existing concept. If you speak to customers it's surprising how groundbreaking they feel very simple things are. Competing on quality isn't yet as important on the w

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