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Pitching a Post-Seed-Stage Startup: 10 Pointers(robertlaing.com)
1 points by robertlaing 14y ago|0 comments
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by robertlaing 14y ago
Chosen... will keep trying a few things though. So gradual A/B.
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by robertlaing 14y ago
Was always an option but we wanted Gengo. Probably relevant to mention that "Gengo" is the Japanese word for "language". So it makes a lot of sense for us.
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by robertlaing 14y ago
As I recall we did something like... if price < x, commission = y% price > x, commission = y-5% Regardless, hard to have a perfect transaction in this kind of thing from a buyer's point of view because by default you have imperfect
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by robertlaing 14y ago
I can't disclose exactly. Roughly a junior developer's salary. It was owned by someone who's name is actually Gengo, and had a business predicated on the name. So he was reluctant to sell. The broker got between 10-15%.
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Rebranding Your Startup(robertlaing.com)
43 points by robertlaing 14y ago|14 comments
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by robertlaing 14y ago
Married a Japanese girl in London (I'm British/Australian). She had been there for 10 years so perfect English. We decided to move to Japan a few months after we got married (more because I wanted to live there and see what it was like :) S
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by robertlaing 14y ago
Web designer/programmer working in agencies in London, back in 2004. A freelancer who was working for us quit and raised some money for a product idea. And friends, who had founded Last.fm, started getting a lot of traction. About that time