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by robfitz 15y ago
Providing a little more detail would help your cause.
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by robfitz 15y ago
SearchYC is dead because there's now a search field at the bottom of every page.
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by robfitz 15y ago
Please stop posting this spam.
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by robfitz 15y ago
4 Steps to the Epiphany by Steve Blank did the trick for me, but a lot of people find it too detailed/boring. There's an ebook at custdev.com that's meant to cover the same content in a more accessible way, but I don't think it's a good sta
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by robfitz 15y ago
I did customer development around a similar idea in London and discarded it. End users (desk seekers) want it, but it's a marketplace and the value proposition for desk sellers is more troubling. You get useful postings in 1 of 2 ways:
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by robfitz 15y ago
This is such BS it's unbelievable. Beyond the obvious correlation/causation issues, tech city offers startups little direct benefit. The advantages are going to be: 1. Subsidised office/living space converted from olympic village (2013+) 2.
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by robfitz 15y ago
It's worth noting that this poll has dramatically increased the vote diversity of the new page. I hope that the increased attention will continue -- the new page needs lots more flagging & voting than it currently receives to keep the f
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by robfitz 15y ago
Currently working on a strategy board game at http://multiplayful.com which is a combination of a collectible card game and Go. It's very much in development.. core gameplay is in place but missing all the collectible and PvP elements and
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by robfitz 15y ago
My previous investors always said that the first 1000 signups to any startup should get a personal email from the founder. I used to send a quick one liner saying I'm rob, thanks for signing up and let me know if there's anything I can help
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by robfitz 15y ago
For the former, very different investors. Medical, biotech, and agriculture each have their own VC & angel communities. You can choose to position yourself as a more defensible tech company backed by some patents if the core R&D is
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by robfitz 15y ago
Certainly, as long as you can avoid giving board seats and heavy veto privileges to people you consider dumb. You can also bring in more relevant investors in future rounds.
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All Revenue is not Equal - getting better stock value judgements than 10x P/R(abovethecrowd.com)
4 points by robfitz 15y ago|0 comments
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by robfitz 15y ago
Pass a karma threshold, which raises over time due to karma inflation.
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by robfitz 15y ago
It's at a nice big pub with fancy beer and a stage for live music, so I'd guess it's a social event plus the companies introducing themselves from the stage so you know who to focus your mingling on.
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by robfitz 15y ago
Working at home --> working at cafes Video games --> hobby projects Following my natural social inclinations --> going out most days Developer --> Developer who can do sales & biz
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by robfitz 16y ago
You suggest it to 4-8 of your peers and then go out of your way to make it happen every 1 or 2 weeks in person or on email/skype.
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by robfitz 16y ago
I don't know if the people upvoting looked through the syllabus, course notes, and assignments, but I'm going to go so far as to say this is completely useless, and might even be damaging for a new entrepreneur to read. The course is divide
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by robfitz 16y ago
Like everyone here, I've read a lot of stuff about SEO. I'm not sure exactly why, but this article got me to actually decide to change the way I'm building my sites. All the others I just filed under: "Good to know. I'll use that some day."
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by robfitz 16y ago
I think this makes sense for you and the product. Someone needs to compete with UserCycle ;) Good luck with the round.
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by robfitz 16y ago
In London, talented students from good unis are getting 300-500 pounds ($500-750) per day for iOS work.
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by robfitz 16y ago
No IP attorney. It's money wasted. If you're really doing something protectable, you can file a provisional patent up to a year after first public demo, and that gives you another year to file a real patent. You'll lose some international p
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by robfitz 16y ago
Raising funding too early. This was educationally productive for 2 [opposite] reasons. 1) We knew far less than their average investment, which led to us experiencing more and faster improvement from the same help (while remaining worse tha
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by robfitz 16y ago
Pivot the product toward something less social that provides immediate value to church staff/leaders I would go with this one, if you still care about the space. You probably have a lot of customer understanding and a good network. Rememb
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Ask HN: practical git process for teams with frequent deploy?
2 points by robfitz 16y ago|1 comments
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by robfitz 16y ago
As a fellow Londoner I felt compelled to poke around the site a bit. * It's officially related to TechStars in some way * They're accepting 10 teams, 4 times per year, in different cities * It's a 3 month, on-site program, with offi
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by robfitz 16y ago
The first round we raised, which was around $500k, we paid $65k in legal fees. Our lawyers spent 2 weeks in conference calls with the investors' lawyers, so we were getting billed anywhere from 4x to 6x their individual hourly rates (600-90
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by robfitz 16y ago
Slightly different question: If you don't program, why? Because it doesn't seem relevant, or you've tried and don't like it, or you've tried and can't do it, or other people can do it well, or it seems scary, or your expertise is elsewhere,
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by robfitz 16y ago
Hey man, love your reading lists. Thanks for taking the time to read a lot of what I assume is junk and distill it down to something useful. Edit (to avoid being entirely off-topic): My resolution, which I've been plugging away at, is to st
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by robfitz 16y ago
I call bi.ng. Nobody else take it, please. The traditional high-value domains have been nouns, which sort of makes sense because we used to have a 1:1 relationship between companies and their sites. Now it's 1:* relationship, with individua
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by robfitz 16y ago
I saw a title of "14 Ways" and was ready to criticise, but this is an impressively practical list. Two additional qualities I prioritise in a startup CEO are 1) the knack for making friends with a room full of strangers under hostile circum

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