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by tomaitch 17y ago
Great work Jed, hope it all goes well. It'll be interesting to see how it compares to YC and others.
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by tomaitch 17y ago
As a general indicator of "traction", I don't mind the use of traffic estimates per se. But for comparing AU sites, these numbers are near enough to useless, because they measure "global" traffic (in practice mainly USA traffic), and make n
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by tomaitch 17y ago
Rather than promote the scene, lists like this make it starkly apparent just how little startup activity there is in AU. On seeing a headline like this my first reaction is always "there are 100 startups in Australia??", followed upon readi
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by tomaitch 17y ago
Did you try searching for "Melbourne to Sydney on Qantas"? It works... http://adioso.com/search/melbourne-to-sydney-qantas.html We'd like to have all the airlines like Emirates, and we will once we're better resourced and properly launche
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by tomaitch 17y ago
It matters if your business is the type that can't prosper on determination alone. That kept us going for 6 years. Eventually we needed money and a supportive environment.
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by tomaitch 17y ago
I should add that what we gained from YC more than anything else was confidence. With what we know now, we realise we possibly could have come to Silicon Valley and successfully launched our startup without YC-backing, although it still wou
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by tomaitch 17y ago
To some degree I'd agree with you more now having done YC than before. If you live in the USA and have ways of working yourself into Silicon Valley or some other startup culture, or have some other kind of access to seed funding and mentors
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by tomaitch 17y ago
We actually stayed for 11 days - we weren't going to fly all that way with the possibility of being unsuccessful, only to return immediately without having any fun. But we did it on the cheap, and you're in the ballpark with the cost. YC r
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by tomaitch 17y ago
We're back in Melbourne now, planning to return to the Valley in a couple of months and bracing ourselves for the immigration minefield.
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Tales from the trenches: our Y Combinator Interview Experience(tomaitch.com)
101 points by tomaitch 17y ago|32 comments
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by tomaitch 17y ago
That's what most people we talk to seem to do. Adioso is designed with this assumption.