peripatetic

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by peripatetic 17y ago
Funding profile I was meaning more like: your revenue level and growth rate, what industry you are in and dynamics of, the business model, strength of team, etc. if you want to discuss send me your email address to: peripatetic@suremail.inf
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by peripatetic 17y ago
No need for seed for the "connections." In fact a seed investment can kinda screw things up because you're deal won't be as clean. Only take on seed if you think it would improve your "funding profile" to VC's. So you need to evaluate 1.
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by peripatetic 17y ago
I don't know the convention, but the most accurate would be the rate of decay on the installed base.
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by peripatetic 17y ago
I cannot imagine what you could do to "de-risk" a company with zero capital, zero customers and zero product.
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by peripatetic 17y ago
V. Important. don't confuse ambition, audacity, etc, with lack of humility. you can be ambitious and humble. humility helps you attract team. humility helps you delegate when you have that team. humility helps you pick your battles and foc
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by peripatetic 17y ago
What a squalid petty affair. I think you need to keep a little perspective. You aren't the first guy to waste a bunch of time on a side project that didn't go anywhere. 1. this was a side project!?! you can't expect great results from a si
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by peripatetic 17y ago
http://urchin.earth.li/~twic/twic.py excellent. and great comment: """This is Tom's personal Python subroutine library. You are not expected to understand this. Warning: this file contains HIGH MAGIC and DEEP VOODOO, as well as quite a b
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by peripatetic 17y ago
yeah, but what i really want is the "Lime Away" stain remover... how the hell is that thing unblockable?!
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by peripatetic 17y ago
Well, luckily we all now have "Felony Machines" installed in all our homes (internet connected computers), that are capable of generating all number of felonies in an evening (child pron and the like). Cliky, clicky everybody.
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by peripatetic 17y ago
I work for a startup in sv. successful. we are all linux, python, ruby. we are building our infrastructure from the bottom up, (no previous decisions we are locked into). The idea of doing _anything_ with microsoft is just completely alie
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by peripatetic 17y ago
I disagree w/ a lot of what is stated here about: "don't cover up the problem" or "get your life in order then try medication." I got a lot of the same bad advice and I wasted years flagellating myself to try to get my life in order first.
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by peripatetic 17y ago
Get a partner. If you're stating you're in a vacuum now, well wait, because there will be an infinite stream of decisions and competing priorities and aims and risks that come from taking a co to the next level. So, if you want to take it