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by scottallison 9y ago
While Twilio and Amazon Connect have some integrations it does not appear that Connect is built on top of Twilio. The Amazon FAQs says that all telephony services are charged separately by "AMCS LLC" which I'm guessing is a t
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Downtown Las Vegas: The City Itself As An Accelerator?(forbes.com)
3 points by scottallison 13y ago|0 comments
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by scottallison 13y ago
Great post. It was last year that there was a lot of chatter from everyone, worrying that we were in a bubble. Since then the talk of bubble has apparently decreased but the real signs of a bubble have accelerated, in particular, crazy livi
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Please Stop Hiring Rockstars(exaqueo.com)
14 points by scottallison 13y ago|0 comments
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by scottallison 14y ago
This is awesome for a weekend hack! Good fun :)
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by scottallison 14y ago
500 has always been about startups with some degree of traction. Out of our batch, all bar 2 had a product, and over half had revenue already.
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by scottallison 14y ago
Actually I'm fairly sure there were 2 teams with single founders at the time of application. All had a team though, that's the most important thing.
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by scottallison 14y ago
This is cool. We currently host our app with Engine Yard and there's been a number of times when we've wanted to put in extra capacity for short bursts but it's impractical to do it. It's not the cost of upgrading for me that's the problem
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by scottallison 14y ago
Which makes me think of customer development... And how difficult it can be to sort through which feedback matters and is worth iterating around and what you should ignore. I think the biggest successes of recent times, Inatagram and Facebo
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Essential Concepts To Master For New Entrepreneurs(forbes.com)
1 points by scottallison 14y ago|0 comments
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by scottallison 14y ago
Before I moved to silicon valley, I used to come here a couple of times a year, visiting as a Scottish person living in London. I would deliberately schedule any important meetings at the end of the trip, knowing full well that it would tak
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Investor horror stories(forbes.com)
3 points by scottallison 14y ago|0 comments
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by scottallison 14y ago
I think they don't want to make a noise because the next Air will have much of the power (but lacking the connectivity). This is literally one for the Pros. Can't see the line continuing beyond this iteration.
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Silicon Valley's goal setting tool: "OKRs"(blog.teamly.com)
2 points by scottallison 15y ago|0 comments
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by scottallison 15y ago
I'm the other cofounder of Teamly. Matt is very kind to describe me so nicely, but I feel just as lucky to have found him. As well as being extremely inquisitive he gets stuff done, and is as passionate about Teamly as I am. We clicked stra
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by scottallison 15y ago
Great post. Janice Fraser's LUXr classes (and slides) are worth a look. What I particularly like is for the first step, you describe setting a clear user goal, and they expnad on that: We believe that people like [customer type] have a need
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The trouble with non-tech cofounders (eu.techcrunch.com)
22 points by scottallison 15y ago|12 comments
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by scottallison 15y ago
Thanks for the comments folks :)
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“For entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs” – the startup world’s motto(scott-allison.net)
2 points by scottallison 15y ago|0 comments
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by scottallison 15y ago
This article summarises what makes the valley both awesome and absurd. I got mixed emotions reading it. It manages to be both appalling and inspirational. And Bill Nguyen makes the manic Zuck portrayal in The Social Network appear shy and r
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Driving Value and Gearing for Exits (an angel's perspective)(nelsongray.com)
1 points by scottallison 15y ago|0 comments
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by scottallison 15y ago
FYI, the original quote is by motivational "guru" Jim Rohn: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”
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by scottallison 15y ago
Google Voice is a great product which could be so much better, it's pretty clear it's one of those things Google has not looked after or worked on much. It's also a complete pain to set up. Your average Joe is going to struggle to get it up
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by scottallison 15y ago
Thanks for pointing that out, but putting it another way, the things I expected I would benefit from by being in London did occur, along with the pleasant and unexpected bonus of the government's tech city initiative.
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by scottallison 15y ago
As you're in Seattle, it would be interesting to know why you're making the move.
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by scottallison 15y ago
I completely disagree with this, simply because there is already a fantastic and large hub in London. There's hundreds of startups here already and proximity to VCs, in one of the world's best cities. It makes a lot more sense to build on s
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by scottallison 15y ago
More on UK visa: http://eu.techcrunch.com/2011/03/17/uk-beats-the-us-to-a-tec...
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by scottallison 15y ago
Agreed, a hybrid of absolute numbers of startup people and density is probably the most appropriate.
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by scottallison 15y ago
Sounds like Chicago has a great community! But you can't cite bumping into Dave McClure as evidence of anything other than Dave McClure travels, A LOT. ;)
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by scottallison 15y ago
You're right, it's the other way around.

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