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soci
11y ago
Looks great! We started doing something similar three weeks ago at http://jobsBCN.com , but with the idea of covering all job openings from startups in Barcelona city (Europe). We have more than 250 job openings for engineers (+2
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11y ago
According to some of the open positions listed at http://www.jobsbcn.com 60K-70K for an engineering position seems realistic. Disclaimer: I am the jobsbcn startup jobs list maintainer.
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12y ago
Great piece of advice. > 5. The people who are really getting somewhere aren't the people who are always out for drinks I would add that networking is ok (specially with your customers). But being always networking with the entrepre
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12y ago
Now that you mention Kilian Jornet (the world famous sky runner), I can't refrain from saying that at KiteBit we actually built and run the service used by him and others to sell his movies. Technology stack we have set up at KiteBit i
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12y ago
While in US Goverment is hiring engineering talent, in other parts of te world like where I live (Spain), this is still a dream. At least your goverment tries!
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12y ago
ExoClickπ[1] was one of the ad networks (if not the only one) used by The Pirate Bay to monetize. [1] https://www.exoclick.com
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12y ago
Unfortunately, it's not the first time it happens, my app is down and customers unhappy. I always wonder, why is it that someone wants to attack a small company like DNSimple ? Is it that they were blackmailed and did not surrender to
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12y ago
I just finished watching it a few minutes ago. Great documentary,
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12y ago
I also played with servos and my Arduino a while ago. I had quite fun indeed. I agree that piloting AR plane is quite difficult. I always end up with a crash [1] and then I spend an hour in repairing it. Keeping it up in the air is doable,
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12y ago
In an an iPhone the videos of the site are broken. So much better expirience from the desktop browser!
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12y ago
Scuba diving does make A LOT of noise indeed. When I freedive I can hear scubadivers by their loud sound from far away; even when I cannot see them underwater nor their boats on the surface. Then, I change location because I know I won'
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12y ago
A friend of mine made something similar to this for iOS a while ago: http://gravityapp.info His app is being used in schools.
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12y ago
I saw the interface designer Mike Matas was in the list. Mike Matas joined Facebook a few days ago (incorrect! see bottom), before that he founded Push Pop Press (digital publishing company). For some time he worked at Apple designing new
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12y ago
Fon routers (company founded in 2005) also does that. https://corp.fon.com/en
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soci
12y ago
Being in your same bootstrapped situation for 18months... I'm curious about what's your company about/name.
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12y ago
According to the site test I'm profiled as Strong Protan. No glasses are available to fully fix my colorblindness, since are only are available for medium protans.
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12y ago
I shiver of fear just thinking that my whatsapp chat data is crossed with the info facebook has from my profile. The worst is that I cannot convince all my address book list to not use whatsapp anymore. We are all in a trap!
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12y ago
I wish they would've pulled a Craigslist and become more of a cultural institution than another acquisition; focus more on making chat amazing. Well, I guess that when you've raised 58M in funding it's difficult to stay as
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12y ago
The biggest problem for me is all the FAKE ACTIVITY you can find in the platform. I ended up not believing google+, and not doing any effort to publish anything there. I have reasons to believe that most of the "follow" activity i
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12y ago
My customers see netflix-like services as a way to get easy revenues once the premier/release time window is over. Same for music and Spotify. By doing so, they can charge whatever they want for their productions using their own e-comm
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13y ago
I'm the founder of a startup[1] that provides paid FullHD downloads and streams globally to 120 countries, we mainly operate in Europe and US. Although we still serve less than 4K resolution (we've not found demand yet), I can con
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13y ago
I wonder at what scale a business like this is sustainable with this low pricing schemas. Whatsoever, will it ever be?
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13y ago
Sure, here you have it, very simple. EDIT:: The formatting got corrupted when I posted the comment. Feel free to contact me and I'll send you the format by mail. marc /at/ kitebit /dot/ com * CUSTOMER2 NAME
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13y ago
In our company we use plain TXT files with an agreed formatting between the team mates. We have the plain TXT files stored in dropbox shared location. Easy, slick, cost 0, and accessible by search through OSX Spotlight. Also, we don't
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13y ago
Why are you mentioning Amazon?
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13y ago
Yes, looks like an Android powered device. So, at the end is just another OS right? One of the big drawbacks when I first started my nexus5 was that I was being spyed. Why the hell do I need a gmail account to get started?! I wonder if it w
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13y ago
Right to the point information. GREAT. I've been programming on a daily basis for iOS even before the SDK came out (ohhh those reverse engineering days...!). Two years ago I left the job and since then I've always wondered what we
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13y ago
> focus on growth, take VC money, and you'll get the conversion rate sorted out when you're bigger. Not in the lean-startup movement!
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13y ago
70% royalty share was imposed by the majors to Spotify. Just because this was the model used by physical stores and it's how the industry works. They didn't change the revenue split model. One of the problems here is that there ar
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13y ago
At KiteBit we recently pivoted to the music market. Selling music, concert tickets & merch. Music artists obviously have the pain of not getting enough from streaming service. Also physical and regular digital downloads are falling... S
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