nedwin

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by nedwin 13y ago
Some outsource companies and people have lower levels of communication but not all. We work with awesome designers, developers and support staff all around the world and communicate regularly with everyone. Not all companies lack common sen
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by nedwin 13y ago
This is ridiculous. Common sense is not exclusive to agencies or freelancers in your own country. There are plenty of awesome developers and development teams in countries other than your own, including many in countries like Poland and Ind
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by nedwin 13y ago
I agree. 4 months is way too short to call it quites and shift to a new product. In terms of customer validation it sounds like you have some but it hasn't been exhaustive by any stretch. Trying to get Adwords-generated revenue with such a
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Some of the tools USV portfolio companies use for biz dev(tweaky.com)
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by nedwin 13y ago
We started Tweaky.com to help with this exact problem. We only tackle small projects but we've built a system which makes this work for both customers and developers. Our project managers break a project down into "tweaks" where each one is
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by nedwin 13y ago
I wonder if there was some kind of accounting reason behind it as well.
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by nedwin 13y ago
I'm surprised that they kept you on below market salaries after the acquisition. But I'm guessing that the bonuses more than made up for it?
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by nedwin 13y ago
Emails from lawyers also frequently contain the phrase "my client". You might not want to automatically delete those ones.
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by nedwin 13y ago
I'm also pretty frothy on this $12 phone. http://www.bunniestudios.com/blog/?p=3040
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by nedwin 13y ago
I lived for the last 2 years with a Nokia 1610. Highly recommend but they discontinued in January and a new model came out with a camera (which was against my minimalist ethos at the time). I ended up breaking the chain and switching back t
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by nedwin 13y ago
Grandfathering is the best thing to do here. A good trick I've heard is to launch at a high price - say $100 per month - and do promos through marketing channels where you are quite liberal with discounts. This gives the perception of high
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by nedwin 13y ago
There is a lot of regulation. Almost every aspect of the design needs approval by the department of transport. There is a need to ensure that the vehicles can be produced in mass production versus a one off. This includes quality control an
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by nedwin 13y ago
The cost is that people who know this strategy is in place will no longer purchase any tickets if there is less than 100 tickets left. Further if the ruse is revealed the general sale of all charity lottery tickets will define because it co
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by nedwin 13y ago
An all star cast. Particularly good to see another designer and to have someone with IPO experience.
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by nedwin 13y ago
Awesome. Just arrived from Melbourne and brought my bike with me - my poor legs will be very thankful.
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by nedwin 13y ago
"I'll give you 20% of the company if you make the MVP." Which is not what this article is saying at all. That's why there is a dollar figure attached to hiring a freelance developer, not an equity split.
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by nedwin 13y ago
I think you can hazard a guess that it's for building an MVP for a web product. An agency is unlikely to be able to build an MVP of a stealth fighter jet though they might still send you an estimate.
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by nedwin 14y ago
Do you feel the same way about OKCupid? "Are you sure the boy/girlfriend you're looking for is only 'ok'?"
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by nedwin 14y ago
It's the bubbles, I'm not a big champagne guy ;)
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by nedwin 14y ago
We have to a certain extent. Prior to this I probably went out for drinks 2 or 3 nights a week. One to 4 drinks in a night, sometimes more. It's definitely a sometimes food for me now.
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by nedwin 14y ago
I don't think he means necessarily that they're cash cows. It sounds like he means that they're profitable enough to keep surviving and growing somewhat but not to the point where someone wants to acquire the business. Due the emotional inv
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by nedwin 14y ago
Love your work. Had to work on a video capturing project 18 months ago that nearly killed me. Zencoder reduced some of the pain but we still blew months on the project.
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You need to bake fitness into your startup culture(blog.mynameisned.com)
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by nedwin 14y ago
I definitely agree it's part art and part science. "The higher the growth needed, the lower the fees need to be." I don't think that's strictly true. If you had two companies and one had three times the margin of the other, this gives them
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by nedwin 14y ago
TechCrunch yesterday: "If you think 10% is a good transaction fee for your marketplace, then you will struggle" http://techcrunch.com/2013/03/16/marketplaces-businesses-are... TechCrunch today: Check out this startup taking on an encumben
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by nedwin 14y ago
Not sure if this would work for them but it would definitely deliver a shitload more emails for their database.
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by nedwin 14y ago
Random location (in a rough geographic area) to random location (in much larger geographic area) would be pretty crazy search. I think for most travellers it's fair to say that they know what their starting point is. Or am I making an ass o
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by nedwin 14y ago
I think finding a business guy that gets servers is going to be a struggle in and of itself. Have you tried to do sales? How do you know you're building something people want?
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by nedwin 14y ago
Hey Andy, I'm pumped for you to get the exit. Sounds like a great outcome for you personally and for the Refer.ly team.
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by nedwin 14y ago
So it was a sub-$100k acquihire?

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