madmotive

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Financial Times: IT graduates struggle to find work(ft.com)
25 points by madmotive 18y ago|44 comments
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Faceparty tells critics to F*** Off, suspends entire site(uk.techcrunch.com)
49 points by madmotive 18y ago|26 comments
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Plaxo release email addresses(builtbydave.co.uk)
1 points by madmotive 18y ago|0 comments
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by madmotive 18y ago
I think the problem is more with non-technology businesses killing geeks. When a business doesn't fundamentally understand technology at its highest level they don't understand how best to employ the skills of geeks/developers/engineers/ha
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Corporate companies killing geeks(andrei.serdeliuc.ro)
9 points by madmotive 18y ago|8 comments
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by madmotive 18y ago
I'm getting the feeling they had too much cash too early and didn't have a good balance of hacker founders. They had two (excellent) UK web agencies working for them that wouldn't have come cheap.
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by madmotive 18y ago
Are there any stories of Silicon Valley start-ups getting themselves into a similar state to this with a product at a similar stage?
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Naked stripped bare - startup runs out of cash, enters liquidation(uk.techcrunch.com)
15 points by madmotive 18y ago|6 comments
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The Guardian: Programming is destroying my capacity for reflective thought(guardian.co.uk)
15 points by madmotive 18y ago|20 comments
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by madmotive 18y ago
This is really worth having a look at. Summarises all things semantic web excellently.
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by madmotive 18y ago
It's hard enough convincing people that the 1% to 2% that Shopify charge is worth it. However, it is a slight sweetener that this seems to include all credit card processing fees.
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by madmotive 19y ago
I'm getting the 11:00 from LHR this Friday. Sticking around until Tuesday 29th. Not looking forward to the jet-lag :)
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by madmotive 19y ago
I'd guess that they probably are on that page somewhere, not necessarily in the "product expert" list. They just need to get themselves into an environment in which they can most effectively do their thing. I'm sure they were in it or clos
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by madmotive 19y ago
Don't get me wrong. I too have a great deal of respect for the main goal of Seedcamp and the work that everyone involved is putting into it and other initiatives in Europe. But I also agree that focusing on the product at seed stage shoul
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by madmotive 19y ago
Excellent post. I particularly hope the predication about SeedCamp comes true. It really does need to become more like YC if it's going to have as big an impact. Alternatively they could start again from scratch and keep it much simpler.
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by madmotive 19y ago
Really impressed by how quickly you've launched and the approach is brilliant. Makes perfect sense! Particularly happy to see two YC start-ups this week launching products so useable that they're being used on Hacker News... and with Britis
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by madmotive 19y ago
We've used SliceHost for over a year now. We tried one of the free Joyent Accelerators a couple of months back but whole experience for us wasn't as good as with SliceHost. Their kind of hosting is worth paying for.
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by madmotive 19y ago
Make sure you are signed up with payment details for S3 or EC2 and you should get an invitation very quickly.
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by madmotive 19y ago
There are two things that might swing us into having everything entirely hosted at Amazon. 1) If we need to store large amounts of data at S3 and our app constantly needs to manipulate it, sitting between the user and the data rather than s
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by madmotive 19y ago
Don't forget the brilliant SussexDigital that brings much of this together: http://www.sussexdigital.com ... and groups like http://www.wiredsussex.com , http://www.projectbrighton.com and http://www.inuda.net (I'm the founder of tha
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by madmotive 19y ago
I've been very tempted to take the Facebook App first approach on a number of projects. Like you say, it focuses you on what the core value of your application is without being distracted by the social networking fluff around the outside.
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Feedback Please: A Facebook App for Enterprise Week(facebook.com)
2 points by madmotive 19y ago|0 comments
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by madmotive 19y ago
I'm sure this has been on here before but this is a good follow up to that article and it's also from the chaps at Twitter: ---- For us, it's really about scaling horizontally - to that end, Rails and Ruby haven't been stumbling blocks, com
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by madmotive 19y ago
Quite provocative. Let's hear your arguments against this.
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The geeks just don't get IT - Telegraph(telegraph.co.uk)
3 points by madmotive 19y ago|5 comments
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We want a developer to come to YC with us(webkitchen.co.uk)
11 points by madmotive 19y ago|17 comments
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by madmotive 20y ago
I recommend http://www.slicehost.com/ I was blown away by the simplicity and power of their service. All the benefits of your own box with far less hassle and only $20pm starting fee. Loads of really good documentation on getting a prod
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by madmotive 20y ago
Good article here: Wii and Joost the perfect match: http://www.wiisquid.com/2007/04/04/wii-and-joost-the-perfect-match/ I also have invites jonathan.markwell at gmail if you want one.