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| bio | website | jellyweb.co.uk |
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| location | Cambridge, United Kingdom | |
| age | 48 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 8 months |
| seen | Feb 1 at 13:01 | |
| stats | profile views | 210 |
If my first boss, Andy Johnson-Laird, hadn't rung Bill to back out of writing The Programmer's Guide to MS-DOS, I was the guy getting the code credits. Sigh.
Since making the move from hacking to hawking, I've climbed the corporate greasy pole, raised sums from loose change to a billion dollars (boy, was that a bubble!) and co-founded product, service and professional service businesses.
These days I'm a parallel entrepreneur and co-founder of the Idea Transform weekend accelerator, I help startups for cash, equity or exotic combinations as the JellyWeb guy, and if you're in Cambridge, England I offer coffee shop consulting in half hour, caffeine-fuelled gulps. Finally, I consult on propositions, pricing and launch management.
(Post-finally, I'm also an ordained minister in the Church of England, which is why I sometimes call myself an ordained entrepreneur.)
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Apr 12 |
awarded | Revival |
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Feb 1 |
answered | Pricing for the first customer |
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Oct 26 |
comment |
Should a great project to solve one problem become a start-up? Thanks Ryan - this is helpful. My site is at MVP stage. Part of my learning is that the competitor is seriously annoyed to have anyone else in the market space. They're early stage and have a business model I don't like. One trusted associate has said that for the public good I should go ahead and compete. I'm still not quite decided... |
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Oct 24 |
asked | Should a great project to solve one problem become a start-up? |
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Oct 24 |
comment |
Do investors run away from entrepreneurs that have interests in 2 start-ups at the same time? How did it go...? |
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Oct 12 |
answered | How can you (best) monetize a beta? |
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Oct 12 |
answered | Do investors run away from entrepreneurs that have interests in 2 start-ups at the same time? |
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Oct 3 |
comment |
Selecting a Pricing structure-How to offer free membership? It would be helpful if you spelled out whether you are already 100% confident that you are confident that the monthly subscription represents evidenceable good value, or whether you're testing both the pricing level and the introductory offer |
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Oct 3 |
answered | How do I specifically start a business as a government defense supplier? |
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Oct 3 |
answered | Is it common for people to work for free in exchange for equity in a startup? |
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Oct 3 |
answered | 1-man show, coder/marketing/everything else… 10 months in the making, too long? |
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Oct 3 |
revised |
1-man show, coder/marketing/everything else… 10 months in the making, too long? improved spelling, grammar and general readability |
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Sep 22 |
awarded | Yearling |
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Sep 21 |
awarded | Custodian |
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Sep 10 |
answered | Convert FREE to PAID service without losing customers? |
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Sep 10 |
comment |
How do you indentify what type of adoptor a person is? "Someone" - it would be helpful to know the context. The answer is going to be different for, say, a person face-to-face, a visitor to your website, a twitter user etc. |
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Sep 5 |
comment |
Ways to reach users for product prototype, important part for final product development It's hard to respond usefully without knowing at least what problem you're setting out to solve for what kind of end-user |
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Sep 5 |
answered | How do we respond to customers who call us for support we don't offer? |
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Aug 13 |
answered | Freelance Designers “Quality”- Portfolio vs. Results |
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Aug 13 |
answered | How to estimate the cost of a service? |
