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by shimms 12y ago
Links to David E. Weekly's syndicate page on Angel List ( https://angel.co/dweekly/syndicate/ ) who appears to be @dweekyl ( https://twitter.com/dweekly ).
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Aussie Atlassian founders are latest billionaires after financing round(forbes.com)
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by shimms 12y ago
Both genders are far from equal victims. Even if codedicks was a equivalent version of the site, objectifying men (rather than a parody) your assertion would still be wrong. When we're trying to promote equality in a male dominated f
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Apple Launches Replacement Program for Faulty iPhone 5 Power Buttons(recode.net)
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by shimms 13y ago
We started adding BugHerd to our client projects a few months back and it has single handily changed the way we deal with feedback and bug reports during the build phase. No other tool we'd tried before (JIRA Capture, UserVoice/Ze
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by shimms 13y ago
+1 I have it set to deny everything except openvpn, Captive Network Assistant and UserEventAgent on all networks by default. Only explicitly whitelisted networks have access beyond these three rules. On an untrusted network (the default st
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by shimms 13y ago
We do - cochrane reviews ( http://www.cochrane.org ). From their about us page: "Cochrane is a global independent network of health practitioners, researchers, patient advocates and others, responding to the challenge of maki
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by shimms 13y ago
Thanks - but right back at you with the price point threshold. We called it the "credit card approval limit". If a divisional/departmental manager can approve a purchase on their credit card without seeking director or board
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by shimms 13y ago
We tried the typical SaaS startup freemium model for what we thought would be our Blackboard killer (hint: it wasn't). We offered it for free to individual teachers with the strategy of enlisting an evangelist group of dedicated and pa
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by shimms 13y ago
Do you mean public wifi? There are some areas that have some public wifi (Adelaide has some pretty good coverage in the CBD thanks to Internode, an Adelaide based ISP), but it isn't very common. If you mean private wifi? Of course we d
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BlackBerry Enters into Letter of Intent with Consortium led by Fairfax Financial(finance.yahoo.com)
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by shimms 13y ago
I've only ever found it to be a plus - good ice breaker, people seem to love it. That said, often people assume it is a British accent, not an Australian accent. I think because people from outside Australia often have the preconceptio
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by shimms 13y ago
> Frankly it sounds like you were under the impression that Apple is able to universally and fairly adjudicate all claims in less than 24 hours. That's silly. I didn't get the same impression from reading the article. To me it
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by shimms 13y ago
Wow the negativity here is astonishing. $5000 recurring revenue is an amazing accomplishment, and something that most startups never see. Kudos on this achievement, for taking the time to share it, and for the hard work behind it. Wishing y
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by shimms 13y ago
For those (like me) who didn't know what NIO was, and got lost in the second paragraph, from Wikipedia: "The APIs of NIO were designed to provide access to the low-level I/O operations of modern operating systems. Although th
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by shimms 13y ago
Which is made by the same developers as ReSharper, a popular add-on for Visual Studio. Using RubyMine now as a Rails dev, after years of Visual Studio use as a ASP.NET dev, and having the familiar ReSharper-like tools and interface in RubyM
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by shimms 13y ago
R3W was a great help when I was getting started with Rails. Thank you :) I just purchased R4W, looking forward to brushing up.
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by shimms 13y ago
I see - I was probably looking at it from my own perspective, which is not your target audience. I'm not sure the reception you're going to get on HN is reflective of your customer demographic. I think most people here can and wo
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by shimms 13y ago
I don't like to be overly negative off the cuff, and hope I've just missed the secret sauce here (perhaps the messaging isn't clear on the landing page?), but: Why pay $300 and wait 7 days when something like Themeforest char
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by shimms 13y ago
Looks like Dashing from Shopify: http://shopify.github.io/dashing/
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by shimms 13y ago
Could also extend it to include a charge for the first month's usage. Once the requisite number of upboats is met, the funds can be transferred to the idea holder, less a clip of the ticket. This would also improve confidence that the
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by shimms 13y ago
To be clear for those who aren't following the salient detail here - the preferred stock does not convert to common if the liquidation preference is exercised. The investor gets up to their money back (1x preference), and no more. If they c
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by shimms 13y ago
"The legal fees are paid after receiving the investment" May be the case, but unless you can negotiate a deal with your law firm that the fees are contingent on closing, if the deal falls apart you've still got the legal fees to pay, and no
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by shimms 13y ago
Not to mention that your most solid advisor could be one of your VC's too ;)
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by shimms 13y ago
Cool - you know I think we actually agree on most things to do with this subject. I guess I was talking about the more serious, and thankfully less common, degree it can get to with some founders (anyone actually, this isn't a special club
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by shimms 13y ago
Unfortunately what starts as alcohol overuse, or drug abuse, as a coping mechanism can quickly spiral to full-blown addiction, both for physiological and psychological reasons.
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by shimms 13y ago
You are over simplifying it. The pressure (whether self-imposed or not) upon founders (especially those who have raised funds) are not imagined. The expectation and pressure to deliver a result when you've got investors, employees, sharehol
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by shimms 13y ago
Closed alpha testing vs public availability? Progress, not the exact same post.
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by shimms 13y ago
A web app would immediately make me not interested in it. The great thing about an excel file is you can share it with your co-founder/accountant/CFO without needing to create accounts, troubleshoot "I can't log in" etc. How many people wri
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by shimms 13y ago
babushka - http://babushka.me/

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