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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Entrepreneurship has been cool for a while now - and is now a part of the establishment - all the major universities have jumped on the entrepreneurship bandwagon, and governments avidly promote their support for entrepreneurs. So becoming
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Find a deprived area which has been earmarked for regeneration, apply for development funds. East London 2012 has helped my start-up gain pre-commercial funds, and we return in the summer to bid for another round. We are affiliated with the
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I've just finished a phd in the humanities at oxford (full-funded, took four years to the day), and overall enjoyed the experience (I also used the flexibility of my schedule to get involved in start-ups and recently sold my first one in a
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
To keep you on the site as long as possible bro.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
If any of your team went to university in the uk, get the company featured on their news page - they all want to push their enterprise credentials - with a link, thats a free way of getting good google juice.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I'm not disagreeing with the commentator, just taking his point as a cue for a statement about how cowardly and nasty I think spitting is.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Being punched in the face is a more honest action than spitting. Remember the kids at school that used to bite people - little weasels then, little assholes now.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Just one point about the phd, I noticed that some students who stayed at the same uni for postgrad grew REALLY bored with the place after being there countless years.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
plastic logic, paper replacement - http://www.plasticlogic.com/product.html
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Well, I guess there is some justice - if you put out bullshit job descriptions, you should only get bullshit applicants.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Anecdote: when I started uni in 1999, and went to the freshers fair, there were four major high street banks with stalls offering credit cards. The average credit card debt is now £2,000. I've never had a personal credit card, only a busine
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I'm not so sure - I think they timed it just right, when the market was at its most bullish (not too long after youtube). The thing that also has to be pointed out for kulveer and harjeet is the difficulty of doing what they did when they
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I believe they met Sacca at the 'Chris Sacca comes to Oxford' conference.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Well, I don't identify as upper middle class, like many of people who now go to university I'm lower-middle class - first person from family to go to university. Hence I guess academia is held by suspicion by people who havent had any conta
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Points (1) and (2) can also be seen in psychological/cultural terms - academia used to be seen as a respectable career choice, but with the rise of the bankers there was more family pressure on young people to 'use' their talents - which me
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
London does not have cheap public transport, at least compared to other European cities, but then again it is getting more bike friendly - but make sure you invest in a some waterproofs.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
HN is the closest thing to communicating with like-minded people since leaving university. As long as it retains its diligent, unpretentious and insightful membership, it is a good use of time, so long as you don't overdo it.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Subversion? Dude that is celebrities!
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
The great things about bicycles is that it doesn't matter if you've got a 2grand plus bike, and then go on a spin on a crappy 30 year old bike its still great fun.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
He's doing it in his own time - end of. If he's really that good then I would invest in his idea. If he is losing focus then kick him out. There's no absolutes here, just depends on how he works.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
The only reason Google's competitors have not been charging for these kind of services is because Google hasn't been. I imagine many competitors want Google to make this move as then it allows then to do the same and start building some muc
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
All the world's a stage, even hacker news. Go for it - it will get downmoded if its junk, as hacker news is one of the few bullshit freezones left.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
English phd students tend to be quite a despondant lot (I have one, but avoided most of the other students on the course). One major advantage of doing a phd in the humanities now (providing you get funding) is the flexibility. I knew about
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Funding - okay if the VC has recently raised a fund, pretty awful if its an old fund. Consumer spending - in general, screwed due to unparalleled level of consumer debt; online services - will also dip but not so dramatically, cost-cutting
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
I spent six years at another Oxford college. All Souls is an odd institution, very closed to the outside, and I was never blown away by any of its fellows. From people I know who've taken the test, apparently the dinner at the end is the mo
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
This article: a paraphrase (of a book by the writer's former student), uncritical, little use of evidence, largely anecdotal = book plug.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Ashoka are a well run organisation, and many of the entries are inspired and help restore the faith. My experience of mentoring such groups in the past is that a) they put together a great entry b) they win something then c) they all get jo
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
My studies were not a financial investment like that - most students at 18 are not that financially motivated, and just looking to extend the good times and learn something new.
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
Despite the financial weaknesses, Seth ignores one reason why newspapers remain valuable: influencing opinion. Look down the ownership of significant papers - it does not matter if they cost money, as long as they create goodwill / influenc
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by puzzle-out 18y ago
As a rule of thumb, I am three times more productive at home than in any shared workspace. The actual workspace, getting there, dealing with the politics, background noise, for office work is incredibly unproductive. For collaboration use s

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