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by jot 14y ago
With the great things that Stripe and GoCardless are doing I worry that the market for apps like this Chargify and the others will start shrinking soon. Stripe may not be able to gobble up the whole market themselves but I'm sure there will
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by jot 14y ago
I'm currently judging applications for the next round of Start-Up Chile. It's given me a very good understanding of why it's almost impossible to give a reason for why an application is rejected, especially with the borderline ones. What we
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Pinterest Clone Pinspire ‘Tampering’ With Users And Pimped By Spammers(techcrunch.com)
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by jot 15y ago
Happy to see Santiago, Chile is #12 on this list of top startup hubs. I was a participant in Start-Up Chile ( http://startupchile.com ) and I do not believe it would feature at all without the programme. I think this provides some evidence
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by jot 15y ago
Ask yourself not whether Instagram is worth $1 billion but whether Instagram is as valuable as 1% of Facebook. Sounds about right to me.
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by jot 15y ago
I participated in round 1.5, arrived in July 2011 and stayed in Chile until the end of March. If you have the right expectations you can make Start-Up Chile a fantastic experience. The biggest mistake I and others made was to compare it i
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by jot 15y ago
Here's a detailed run down of the latest version of the reimbursement process: http://emilytoop.com/2012/03/20/my-first-reimbursement-proce... Emily's in round 2.5 which started in January. I was in round 1.5 which started in July, things
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by jot 15y ago
That's correct. Some teams have struggled to spend all the money within the 6 months.
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UX, It's Time to Define CXO(uxmag.com)
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by jot 15y ago
This is why you need to have at least $10K in the bank to cover your first 2 months and ongoing upfront payments if you want to participate comfortably in Start-Up Chile.
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My first Start-Up Chile reimbursement - How the $40K grant works(emilytoop.com)
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by jot 15y ago
As I understand it this approach is currently illegal in the US. I think they could shake up startup funding in the UK even more than YC and Kickstarter have in the US.
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Seedrs - FSA approved online platform for investing seed capital(seedrs.com)
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by jot 15y ago
Nice. Very similar idea to http://bonfire.im which is only for use at Twitter.com. Would be cool if it grabbed HN usernames somehow.
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Mixlr Relaunches & Takes a Cue From Turntable.fm(thenextweb.com)
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by jot 15y ago
Congratulations on your success! I recommend this article for tips on a less direct approach to seeking a cofounder: http://joel.is/post/15604799978/avoid-the-50-50-co-founder-m...
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by jot 15y ago
In early rounds about 1/3 were single founders and there are still many in more recent rounds.
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by jot 15y ago
It's fine (or at least has been to date). I know wives, girlfriends, husbands and boyfriends that have all been supported with identical 12 month work visas to founders but their costs are not covered so it'll be out of your own pocket. If
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by jot 15y ago
Accommodation costs are low, housing allowance is enough to live in a modern apartment (often with a pool) for 6 months. Food costs are similar to Europe / US. If you do eat cheaply you'll have more personal cash to spend on other things /
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by jot 15y ago
A few more have come out of the woodwork so we're now up to 30. That's 10% of the 300 that were funded last year.
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by jot 15y ago
If you think you can do better than this lot, check out the next round of funding, details launched today: http://www.startupchile.org/about/apply/yourdecision
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26 Start-Up Chile startups that have launched(shippedfromchile.com)
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by jot 15y ago
How about curating a list of startup friendly houses on Airbnb. Could be a good marketing approach for the landlords to say "startups X, Y and Z started here". I'm sure they'd be popular outside of YC seasons too.
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Tower.js - JavaScript Framework for Node.js modeled after Ruby on Rails(towerjs.org)
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IPhone app Clear sells 350k downloads in nine days on the App Store(guardian.co.uk)
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by jot 15y ago
The most successful (profitable) YC "products", Heroku, Dropbox and Airbnb, have very sound business models with tens of thousands of customers that are not "traditional corporations".
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by jot 15y ago
YC has the sustainable business model and does make a profit. How many teams within traditional corporations are profitable? How many new products that traditional corporations launch are profitable?
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by jot 15y ago
Coworking communities around the world are having a very similar effect.
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by jot 15y ago
"My question was why the Nest is different than the Ecobee or any other smart thermostat that has been around for years." That's like asking: - Why is the iPod different from all the mp3 players on the market? - Why is the iPhone different
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Not Everyone Copies Apple(aaplorchard.tumblr.com)
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