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by mcdowall 15y ago
Great list! Using a few of those myself If i can be cheeky I'd love an intro to the guys at Stripe, think it was a fair few months ago I registered my email for their Beta and would love to implement it for my startup.
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by mcdowall 15y ago
Having dealt with the local advertising model myself (restaurant virtual tours) I can testify how god damn hard it is to get money out of small business owners so the success of Groupon is a surprise to me. From a consumer perspective I uns
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by mcdowall 15y ago
I get 23 days holiday entitlement plus UK bank holidays which this year thanks to Prince William adds on another 9 days. Like some others however, I have dreamt about travelling long term so have handed my notice in, managed to secure some
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by mcdowall 15y ago
What would you say your monthly outgoings are on hosting, staff etc?
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by mcdowall 15y ago
How many domains were you managing to achieve this? Also, how did you monetize, ads or affiliates?
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by mcdowall 15y ago
Europe?
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by mcdowall 15y ago
Ive used your site a ton recently so hope I've helped!
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by mcdowall 15y ago
I have seen the typical affiliate style 'how to make $100 a day on autopilot from adsense' e books around for a while and sold via click bank and the like. I take it yours are more mainstream? Are you then saying that your sales channel is
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by mcdowall 15y ago
Nice, now it's a lot more useful. How about listing held passports/visas as well.
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by mcdowall 15y ago
Nice idea but why can't I view example teams before signing up? Something along the lines of Softfolio would entice me in more before leaving.
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by mcdowall 15y ago
This doesn't surprise me, having 100+ USB's lying around with content does.
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by mcdowall 15y ago
Congrats! It does irritate me that the UK government bleat on about making business finance readily available then you end up face to face with the likes of Natwest!. Reading articles about the startup program in Chile and the building of a
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by mcdowall 15y ago
I am surprised they managed to get the loan via the Small Firms Enterprise Loan Guarentee scheme. I don't know any web based business that has succeeded yet, most bank managers authorise the loan as the guarantor provided you have enough eq
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by mcdowall 15y ago
We (Bournemotuth) were due to be getting Fibrecity, 100mb to the home but it looks like they switched on a few roads, dug up a whole lot more then tanked. There original big fanfare plan was to route the fibre through the sewer system rath
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by mcdowall 15y ago
I'd be in for that
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by mcdowall 15y ago
Unrelated, but pretty cool! http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/uk-13248642
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by mcdowall 15y ago
Shopify will save you a ton of time
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by mcdowall 15y ago
FX rates aside (I can't ever remember the £ being so weak) my friend just got back and said that a 4 pack of yoghurts was as expensive as a steak!.
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by mcdowall 15y ago
Great article, am definitely going to apply some of these concepts.
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by mcdowall 15y ago
We needed to launch a product quickly the other week so created a new form with Google Checkout to process payments, I managed to turn this around in less than 30mins. For the week prior to moving to our Shopify site we processed just over
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by mcdowall 15y ago
Nice app and good design, however I have a problem with this and other startup projects I have seen in startup weekends that there is just not enough information before asking me to signup, where is the 'about' page?. Also, call me ignorant
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by mcdowall 16y ago
Thanks for the update, I did explain that to Kirsty in my mail. I know there are some folk over in the Convore chatroom in the same position, Convore's proved pretty useful today.
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by mcdowall 16y ago
Wicked, thanks!
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by mcdowall 16y ago
If that's your stencil in that pic, any idea of where I can get a hold of one, would be great for my notebook mockups
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by mcdowall 16y ago
I would say so... http://www.bbc.co.uk/news/business-12909071
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by mcdowall 16y ago
I find it outstanding that they have 5m users and only 5 support staff!. I would love to know how they manage that.
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by mcdowall 16y ago
Someone at work actually tried to enter her card details! http://www.groupon.co.uk/deals/national-deal/royalwedding/28...
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by mcdowall 16y ago
I will re send, thanks for your help.
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by mcdowall 16y ago
Its quite indicative of the audience here that on the top 10 browsers IE does not appear, whereas if I look at daily traffic for the health site I work on in my day job (older and significantly less techy demo) IE is the number 1, 2 and 3 b
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by mcdowall 16y ago
I don't want to be a hater but I can't say I've had the best service, I've sent 3 emails around my solution needs (one directly to Sheel from a comment he placed here on HN) but no response, from the looks of the other comments maybe mines

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