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by lfittl 14y ago
Another similar open startup bootstrapping blog: http://bootstrapchallenge.com/ Started with 10k GBP some months ago (to bootstrap fulltime) and keeps a spreadsheet of all expenses and income.
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by lfittl 14y ago
The big benefit of 30x500 that I've seen is the peer-group through the very active mailinglist. Also a lot of good marketing/copywriting advice and feedback that you'd otherwise not get. Whether you'd like to spend the money is another ques
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3 Tips for Effective Stand-Up Meetings(blossom.io)
40 points by lfittl 14y ago|39 comments
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by lfittl 14y ago
Agreed, we've been using https://railsonfire.com/ for our private repos - good to see the competition heating up in the space.
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by lfittl 14y ago
Am I right in the assumption that you meant "SEEKING WORK"?
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by lfittl 14y ago
Author notes "I have lived in the US and have a social security number." (in the comments) - can you open up bank/merchant account without SSN?
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by lfittl 15y ago
No - he's talking about http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berklee_College_of_Music
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by lfittl 15y ago
This comes up again and again, unfortunately. Its Apples and Oranges - and I get the feeling GoCardless don't say this clearly enough: GoCardless does not process credit card transactions. They process bank debits (= low fees, different sys
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by lfittl 15y ago
Interesting, my problems back then were actually ZMQ-related. Though to be fair, we were making it a bit complicated by suspending/resuming the OpenVZ containers. From that we sometimes got dead ZMQ connections that were black holing all tr
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by lfittl 15y ago
I built a very similar PaaS with mongrel2 about a year ago (though all applications were untrusted and running inside an OpenVZ container) - only to change it to be nginx/HTTP-based because of stability. Great to see this technology is read
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by lfittl 15y ago
He's the co-founder of Gidsy, who just raised from Ashton Kutcher & Index Ventures http://www.crunchbase.com/company/gidsy
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by lfittl 15y ago
The simple fact that GmbH law greatly differs from UK/US corporate law makes it uncommon, and therefore cumbersome for any interested UK/US investors. Though obviously if you've got the traction they'll just bite through. Also things like s
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by lfittl 15y ago
For Europeans: Create a UK Ltd holding company, and a local entity for each country you operate in. Happy to answer specific questions by email (we're UK Ltd holding with local AT GmbH) You can also save that local entity by moving the UK L
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by lfittl 15y ago
These systems run "bundle install" on the server anyway - simply make it a full-blown gem and patch it into the Gemfile.
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by lfittl 15y ago
Also highly recommended: Accounting for Computer Scientists http://martin.kleppmann.com/2011/03/07/accounting-for-comput... http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2298471 After reading that article it finally all made sense to me.
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by lfittl 15y ago
Thank you for sharing - unfortunate that it doesn't get picked up & voted on more - really enjoyed reading :)
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by lfittl 15y ago
Rob Walling's book is a nice how-to for this kind of entrepreneurship http://www.startupbook.net/ (not affiliated with the author in any way, just enjoyed the book myself)
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by lfittl 15y ago
Would be great if you could share the outline of the survey (or the survey directly) - I've been having a hard time nailing the right type of questions.
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by lfittl 15y ago
Indeed, option pools are usually created before the actual investment (and therefore dilution) happens, but the option pool percentage you negotiate is % of post-money (not pre).
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by lfittl 15y ago
Don't forget the additional $10/hour "region fee" (= $7200/month) And that dedicated instance is likely still running inside Xen, so you got the normal virtualization overhead, and slow disks.
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Eric Ries Digs Below the Surface of Lean Startup(hackingstartups.org)
14 points by lfittl 15y ago|3 comments
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by lfittl 15y ago
Is this US-only? (been dying for a good UK based gateway) Also you should fix the layout of the upgrade screen: http://skitch.com/lfittl/f5rtf
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Howto create an NGINX module that hooks into upstream routing(blog.efficientcloud.com)
9 points by lfittl 15y ago|0 comments
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State of TradeHill [Bitcoin.com Announcement](tradehillblog.com)
5 points by lfittl 15y ago|0 comments
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by lfittl 15y ago
Sean Ellis recently did a good presentation on this, highlighting whats different for network effect businesses: http://startup-marketing.com/bringing-a-network-effect-busin...
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The Gaming Strategy Facebook Might Unleash This Summer(readwriteweb.com)
30 points by lfittl 15y ago|0 comments
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by lfittl 15y ago
Judging from WHOIS they seem use Softlayer.
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by lfittl 15y ago
Sweet library! I've also started a more broad collection of articles useful to entrepreneurs at http://founderswiki.com/ If you want to collaborate in some way I'd love to talk more - lukas@fittl.com
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by lfittl 15y ago
It's just a fact about the industry - I can confirm having previously worked for a domain registration company. Low margin business as end users compare on price (e.g. when looking for "domain" on Google) - features (mostly) don't matter.
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by lfittl 16y ago
Vienna, Austria or Remote: Performance Engineer Vienna, Austria: Linux and C Programming Guru Full time positions, stock option plan available. We're building Platform-as-a-Service for hosting providers, enabling them to offer Heroku-style

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