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Wordpress Focus On Restaurants(en.wordpress.com)
1 points by jot 14y ago|0 comments
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by jot 14y ago
"Twitter has built its business on the promise of openness." "Twitter promoted its ‘open ecosystem’ to encourage third parties to risk their time and money building businesses that depended on Twitter to survive".
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Restraining Order Compels Twitter to Provide Firehose Access(blog.peoplebrowsr.com)
3 points by jot 14y ago|1 comments
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Code Sketching(phuu.net)
1 points by jot 14y ago|0 comments
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by jot 14y ago
This reminded me of Tom Armitage's excellent dConstruct talk on Toys and Toymaking: http://2012.dconstruct.org/conference/armitage/ "Toys are not idle knick-knacks: they allow us to explore otherwise impossible terrain; fire the imaginat
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by jot 14y ago
The multiplier isn't high enough. It doesn't take into account un-billable time that you need to spend on sales and marketing or higher tax rates in different parts of the world. It's more realistic with a multiplier of 1.8 to 2.0
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Let's Fix The Stupid Job Crisis(nwc.co)
2 points by jot 14y ago|0 comments
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by jot 14y ago
There aren't many messages more effective than "X has just tagged you in a photo" to drive a user back to a site.
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Build a team they'll never leave: the 4 things that matter(kevgibbs.com)
1 points by jot 14y ago|0 comments
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by jot 14y ago
Can you provide us with an idea of how much this improved performance or how many more requests it allowed you to handle? Were there time or cost savings compared to alternative approaches?
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by jot 14y ago
I'm impressed with their positivity but then they have effectively just been granted a monopoly.
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How would you feel if Google announced that you could only access their services using Chrome? What does it take to activate the antitrust lawyers?
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by jot 14y ago
Interesting comparing this to Seedrs ( http://seedrs.com ), the closest UK equivalent.
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by jot 14y ago
It will be interesting to see Start-Up Chile added to this list. I think the number of companies they've funded has almost passed YC now.
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by jot 14y ago
I had no idea Foursquare's API had matured so much, loads of opportunities to build interesting things. This write up has some great insights into some of the challenges of implementing against it.
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How we built Lanyrd's foursquare integration(lanyrd.com)
58 points by jot 14y ago|7 comments
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Apple
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by jot 14y ago
Other than the scrolling tutorial, how is this better than http://mixlr.com ?
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by jot 14y ago
I guess it's luck of the draw. I don't envy Start-Up Chile's task of trying to find experienced mentors in Chile with time for 300 startups a year.
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by jot 14y ago
The "mentorship system" you've heard of isn't a mentorship system. When it works it connects you with a friendly Chilean that can help you by picking you up from the airport, helping you find accommodation, introducing you to other friendly
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by jot 14y ago
Very well said. I particularly agree with the list describing the kinds of companies that can get the most out of Start-Up Chile. It's critical that participants have the right expectations but Start-Up Chile create a huge amount of marketi
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by jot 14y ago
Turns out this was a bad clone of http://investors.dressrush.com
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by jot 14y ago
Anyone else feel like this is full of nothing but hot air? Is this what most investor pitch decks / plans have in them? They've clearly spent an awful lot of time and energy on it but they don't seem to have any real evidence that anyone ac
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EVRST Inc. Business Plan(investors.evr.st)
1 points by jot 14y ago|2 comments
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After Two Startup Accelerators, What I Wish Someone Had Told Me(ecquire.com)
3 points by jot 14y ago|1 comments
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by jot 14y ago
We learned loads and formed some great relationships that lead to good things. IIRC 7 out of the 8 teams made it to a Demo Day that was loads of fun but didn't result in anything tangible. Ultimately we failed to ship regularly and we let t
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by jot 14y ago
Excellently articulated! I ran something like this in Brighton, UK in 2009: http://www.bootcycle.com I'm thinking of running it again this summer. Also related: http://thinkstrapped.com/
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The 32 startups that will present at Start-Up Chile Demo Day(slideshare.net)
43 points by jot 14y ago|21 comments
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by jot 14y ago
SEEKING WORK - Remote / Freelance Ruby / JavaScript / Product Managment Currently selling project I have learned most from: https://flippa.com/2706340-popular-social-media-analytics-sa... Previously worked with over a dozen startups, most
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People who describe themselves as 'Visionary'(datasift.com)
1 points by jot 14y ago|0 comments

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