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by jot 15y ago
It's only 1.5 hours on the bus. There's a small collective of us Start-Up Chile teams living and working in Viña del Mar next door to Valparaiso.
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by jot 15y ago
It'll likely be considerably more in future rounds. The goal is to fund 1000 over three years and we're almost a year in already. Start-Up Chile is the closest I've seen to anyone trying to implement what you described in: http://paulgraha
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by jot 15y ago
"Y Combinator started the year before us, and it’s the same genre, but under the microscope, we could not be more different," said Mr. Cohen. "The fundamental difference between us and the other accelerator programs is they have a black bo
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YC Ad Innovation Conference Now Live(justin.tv)
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AngelList API(angel.co)
65 points by jot 15y ago|8 comments
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by jot 15y ago
[2] Y Combinator is (we hope) visited mostly by hackers. The proportions of OSes are: Windows 66.4%, Macintosh 18.8%, Linux 11.4%, and FreeBSD 1.5%. The Mac number is a big change from what it would have been five years ago. I'm intereste
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Real data on Internet Explorer users low IQ(mypersonality.org)
1 points by jot 15y ago|0 comments
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by jot 15y ago
Brilliant that these now exists, it's taken far too long. We need more of this kind of thing in Europe. Anyone know how they compare to 'standard' US terms?
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21 European investors agree on standard term sheet for startups(eu.techcrunch.com)
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by jot 15y ago
Surprised Dydra isn't mentioned: http://dydra.com
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Paul Graham On Why You're A Mosquito And How Airbnb Is Worth A Billion Dollars(businessinsider.com)
6 points by jot 15y ago|0 comments
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by jot 15y ago
That one surprised me the most. Message at http://code.google.com/apis/language/translate/overview.html : "The Google Translate API has been officially deprecated as of May 26, 2011. Due to the substantial economic burden caused by extens
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Spring cleaning for some of our APIs (googlecode.blogspot.com)
8 points by jot 15y ago|2 comments
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Google Announces APIs Scheduled for Shutdown(readwriteweb.com)
53 points by jot 15y ago|25 comments
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Social Media's Secret Weapon - Email(avc.com)
8 points by jot 15y ago|6 comments
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by jot 16y ago
Nice idea! Here's something similar we tried in Brighton, UK in 2009: http://bootcycle.com I think being in the bay area and basing out of somewhere like Hacker DoJo would have made a huge difference.
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Yahoo Search BOSS V2 Launches(ysearchblog.com)
3 points by jot 16y ago|0 comments
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by jot 16y ago
Would be interesting to hear how YC's application filtering process compares. Given how detailed Start-Up Chile's application form is I'm surprised more were not deemed to be incomplete. I understand that YC often send applicants questions
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The Start-Up Chile Application Process– in Numbers(startupchile.org)
2 points by jot 16y ago|1 comments
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A competitor's perspective on the $326MM Radian6 acquisition(brandwatch.com)
1 points by jot 16y ago|0 comments
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by jot 16y ago
I would recommend the following online tutorials. My wife, who'd done a little Java before, became a Ruby fan in an evening thanks to these: http://tryruby.org/ http://railsforzombies.org/
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by jot 16y ago
Sorry you feel that way. It wasn't our intension to come across like that. How could we have got our message across more positively?
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by jot 16y ago
Which is probably a worse thing to do. They're supposed to be making it easy and appealing to start a business. This makes it seem more complicate and expensive that it really is. There are thousands of successful businesses that don't have
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by jot 16y ago
This is probably a better place to continue from our discussion on Twitter... What is the benefit of describing http://jfdibritain.com as first "cynical" and then a "negative reaction"? Like Start Up Britain, JFDI Britain is positive abou
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by jot 16y ago
We want to know who makes submissions. We've also got some features planned that write access will be useful for.
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by jot 16y ago
Many angels do not require a business plan and other sources (such as customers) are even easier to get money from. Few angel investors will invest in a business that has a plan and nothing else to show. JFDI Britain is about taking the fir
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by jot 16y ago
I put the site together with all kinds of startups in mind not just tech. Why not create other kinds of businesses through this approach?
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by jot 16y ago
Absolutely agree that working out cash flow is critical if you are going to spend significant amounts of cash, otherwise you are in danger of breaking the golden rule. However, with your hairdresser example you can get started and JFDI by w
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JFDI Britain: You don't need a business plan to #startupbritain(jfdibritain.com)
61 points by jot 16y ago|35 comments
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Recurring payment provider options for a UK start-up(blogs.thesitedoctor.co.uk)
2 points by jot 16y ago|0 comments

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