nikiscevak

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Checkers or Chess? Applications for Sydney-based Startmate Close Sunday(startmate.com.au)
15 points by nikiscevak 14y ago|6 comments
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by nikiscevak 15y ago
Ninjablocks: www.ninjablocks.com
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by nikiscevak 15y ago
In your example of 'an investor who waits like that is going to end up paying a much higher price', the visionary investors who said yes to the convertible note will get a very similar price (20% discount?) for taking all that risk. Put you
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by nikiscevak 16y ago
To be clear, we wanted to setup the program with a complete handle on reality and to be supportive of many different options on financing - bootstrap or institutional - and where they are based - Sydney or the Valley or in the many cases cu
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by nikiscevak 16y ago
We fully intend to be very open about the way we do business and bring a local angle on the type of great stuff folks like venturehacks have done in the US. Also, for Aussie startups if there are issues around company formation and things l
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Minimum Viable Product: Case Study Me(homethinking.com)
1 points by nikiscevak 17y ago|0 comments
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The Impending Doom of Facebook Apps (homethinking.com)
8 points by nikiscevak 17y ago|0 comments
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by nikiscevak 18y ago
+1 for JIRA
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Parallels between Twitter and Friendster(brontemedia.com)
1 points by nikiscevak 18y ago|0 comments
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by nikiscevak 18y ago
One point about the index funds (besides from being very hard to beat the market even working full time on it) is that the huge fees compounding on hedge and mutual funds also take away most of your gains. 2% compounded over 30 years wipes
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by nikiscevak 18y ago
Malcolm Gladwell (New Yorker) John Hollinger (ESPN) Paul Graham Warren Buffet
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by nikiscevak 18y ago
I would second the Sitepoint premium marketplace. Here are a few that are in similar ranges: http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/34096 http://marketplace.sitepoint.com/auctions/34080 Having tracked the marketplace for the last few
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by nikiscevak 18y ago
Paul, why do you call the firms clones? Aren't you a clone of a seed stage incubator? I absolutely love what you do but to say that there are clones in the investment world (where there is zero scale) is a weird way of looking at the world.
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by nikiscevak 18y ago
+1 for Startup.com + War Games. Aardvark is lame.
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by nikiscevak 18y ago
One idea: Create two companies, a US company and a company in your local country. You local country affiliate can pay your salary and the US company can pay the foreign company like a vendor. After a year or so, you will be eligible to get
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by nikiscevak 18y ago
One word: Indexes. See what queries are taking the most time, and then add indexes to them. Can speed up your app by 1000x if there is one query that is running wild.
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by nikiscevak 18y ago
I completely agree. Seed financing is inherently unscalable. Investment partners need to spend a lot of time per investment and that severely limits their output. Just like Sequoia are not a 'clone' of Kleiner Perkins, the same is to be sai
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by nikiscevak 19y ago
Honestly, you'll waste your time. They'll see you coming from a mile away. A fantastic source of market research is from larger public companies. Look up their most recent 10-K (annual report). They are legally obligated to give a fairly de
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by nikiscevak 19y ago
Here's a great site that pings and monitors shared hosting accounts. Price isn't really a correlating factor. http://www.realmetrics.com/r/shared-hosting
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by nikiscevak 19y ago
Err yeah sure that will work. My advice: read the four hour work week. Not for the four hours but for putting you in a position to work for yourself and work as an employee. Focus obsessively on your productivity on your current job and tak
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by nikiscevak 19y ago
I've used all the freelancer type sites (elance, rentacoder) and have found oDesk.com to be the best. Primarily because you can get candidates to do technical tests (i.e. javascript tests) that I've found to be a fantastic predictor of succ
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by nikiscevak 19y ago
We use JIRA from Atlassian and love it. http://www.atlassian.com/jira
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by nikiscevak 19y ago
I run another social news site (realestatevoices.com) and captcha doesn't help. The people inputing these links are 'SEO' firms based out of India. Validating email accounts is worthwhile though. But keep in mind these spammers are actual p
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How to decide what startup to work with if you're a highly sought after developer(thisisgoingtobebig.com)
1 points by nikiscevak 19y ago|0 comments
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by nikiscevak 19y ago
gliffy.com is great for mocking up pages and sharing them with others, I find.