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by robfitz 16y ago
Because interested parties can google it and in the reasonably likely case that the question goes unanswered, it's just noise.
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by robfitz 16y ago
Read 'The Age of Wonder' By Richard Holmes. It will get you outside ;)
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by robfitz 16y ago
From what I can tell[1] you can either charge your personal expenses (insurance, housing, etc) or pay yourself a salary, but not both. Edit: It also looks can also choose whether you prefer to have the funding as advance payment or reimburs
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by robfitz 16y ago
Is the bias still relevant? CBInsights says 37% of recent Seed & Series A goes to single founders (dual founders are 40%). Stats on slide 21: http://www.cbinsights.com/blog/venture-capital/venture-capit...
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by robfitz 16y ago
I see Oo around London pretty often, so I don't imagine the question is about his personal location. I suspect it's more about why a continent is being written off.
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by robfitz 16y ago
But it is the influence of leisure on consumption which makes the short week so necessary. The people who consume the bulk of goods are the people who make them. That is a fact we must never forget -- that is the secret of our prosperity.
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by robfitz 16y ago
I disagree with _every_ response so far, which boil down to either a) hire a coder or b) learn to code. Most businesses that get programmed up are bad. Nobody cares about them and they fail. That's okay if you are a solo hacker because the
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by robfitz 16y ago
Noone (in US or UK) is bothered when I write notes on business cards I receive, so I get the impression folding would be fine too.
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by robfitz 16y ago
Forget more school. It's a stalling tactic. Some things might make you happy. Travel might, business might, girls might, friends might. None of those have potential to happen while you're at home. For a simple change, go into the nearest bi
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by robfitz 16y ago
Being a founder is about what you do and how much of yourself you are able to put into the company, not when you join. If Chad had hired someone with Paul's skillset and then told him what to do, that is an employer-employee relationship. T
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by robfitz 16y ago
I'm all over it
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by robfitz 16y ago
Useful blog, thanks. I'm always looking for heads up on startuppy stuff happening around London. What's surprised me is how few people you actually need to make a city feel like a proper community, once you get those people talking to each
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by robfitz 16y ago
Problem: most startups fail
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by robfitz 16y ago
This line of reasoning often leads to the suggestion that you shouldn't bother drinking coffee. I think it's exactly the opposite.. Most things that give me as much pleasure as coffee does are actively damaging me. If coffee is a break-even
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by robfitz 16y ago
It's not a product management tool. There are lots of great options to help you do that, some of which I use. If you already have an idea that you think is a fact, and you are going to build it, regardless of what the world says, then you n
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by robfitz 16y ago
More of an "app" than a "start-up", but thanks ;)
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by robfitz 16y ago
Good idea. I'll post some pdfs or doc templates on the page for offline work before everything's secured up.
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by robfitz 16y ago
It is, as stated in the credits at the bottom of the page. 4 of the blocks are the same as the original biz model generation canvas, and the other 5 are tailored to early stage startups. I also changed the layout from being cash-driven to v
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by robfitz 16y ago
The app doesn't do anything for you, except give you a bit of scaffolding so you can make your own decisions. If you look at startup case studies, the worrying constant is how obvious most of their failures are. We lose track of our basic b
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by robfitz 16y ago
I'm surprised it didn't set your computer on fire in IE. Thanks for the heads up - will get it prepped for mass consumption sometime.
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by robfitz 16y ago
Thanks for making me seem far smarter than I am. My mental process was basically: "Etherpad was easy to use, I'll do that." (come on google, I'm just like them!) You can also type in a more memorable URL (like etherpad, trend emerging) but
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by robfitz 16y ago
That sounds like a reasonable request ;) Will plug that in sometime soon.
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by robfitz 16y ago
Thanks for the feedback. I think that's more than fine. After all, paper is what I've been using until now ;). I wasn't really planning to "launch" this or anything. I pinged the lean startup mailing list to get feedback on the layout of th
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by robfitz 16y ago
Thanks for the kind words. And that's a really good idea.. I've been keeping a list of tools & frameworks that seem helpful to startups, and I hope to bring them together and have founders pick & choose the structure they think will
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by robfitz 16y ago
Hey guys, I put this together as a easier way to visualize & update your business hypotheses. Writing down the beliefs your startup is based on is crucial... it keeps you focused on risks instead of features, makes communication w/ team
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by robfitz 16y ago
It was important enough for us that we moved from SF to London to be closer to our customers. The big mistake we kept making was starting to sell a product idea when we should have still been listening and understanding. Other mistakes were
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by robfitz 16y ago
I've been casually using this for the last couple weeks. It's really slick for what it does (multiple simultaneous conversations with the same group of people) and has some neat touches like upgrading comments to standalone discussions when
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by robfitz 16y ago
Every comment gets some accidental down votes, so I think just accept your slip as part of it's accurate overall score.
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by robfitz 17y ago
Great project. How many weeks are you committing to the 1-a-week learning process? You get better results in personal challenges like this with a concrete end date. Don't let the peeps on the demoscene board discourage you - their expectati
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by robfitz 17y ago
First, go read Steve Blank's book ( http://www.amazon.com/Four-Steps-Epiphany-Steven-Blank/dp/09... ). It puts a comforting amount of structure around the sales process and turns what's normally a big ball o' confusion into a set of tasks w

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