edralph

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CTO for a life-science eCommerce company that has scaled from a few people back in 2000 to flotation in 2005 and now turning over $100M a year with 39% PBT.

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Apr 13	awarded	Yearling
Dec 1	comment	Toughest Exercise: Equity Split As usual, referring to Joel Spolsky's answer here: answers.onstartups.com/questions/6949/…
Nov 29	comment	Why can't I find any reliable web development help? What am I doing wrong? I use bitbucket myself as it's free for private, but if I didn't mind about whether it was private or not I'd go with github - it's better IMHO.
Nov 29	comment	Why can't I find any reliable web development help? What am I doing wrong? +1 for github comment: you'll see those commits flowing in (or not)
Nov 24	comment	How much equity should I get for developing a site where the idea isnt mine +1 Fair point Billy.
Nov 23	answered	How much equity should I get for developing a site where the idea isnt mine
Sep 21	awarded	Custodian
Jun 1	revised	Next steps after launching a social network added 995 characters in body
Jun 1	comment	Next steps after launching a social network Added my take on full time jobs. Glad you found my comments useful, but always weigh up the advice you get from others with what you know about your business - remember you know infinitely more about your business than we do.
Jun 1	answered	Next steps after launching a social network
Jun 1	answered	Small post-project change. To charge or not to charge?
May 4	awarded	Analytical
May 4	reviewed	Approve suggested edit on How do you allow staff to indicate they don't want to be interrupted?
May 4	awarded	Revival
Apr 30	comment	Do I need traditional marketing for a web startup? Marketing effectively is hard. You'd be missing a trick if you shunned traditional channels. There's plenty of marketing material out there - my comments are only from helping to build a billion dollar business.
Apr 30	answered	Do I need traditional marketing for a web startup?
Apr 25	comment	Is my role as non technical guy valuable enough in this case? if you can afford it, keep 100% ownership and hire developers to do the minimum amount of work necessary to demonstrate that this idea will work. Then when you've hit that milestone, move on with bigger and better plans.
Apr 13	answered	Is it necessary to have a Co-founder and team and then go to VC
Apr 13	awarded	Yearling
Apr 13	comment	'Startup' enterprise software application, question about ownership between investors and developers Thanks for your response @user17410. I understand how you've arrived at the valuation. However, what you've done is a valuation of the market, not your company. The idea to target this market isn't worth a $million on its own. Great that you have developers that buy into it - you've a much better chance of winning. Good news on only being 2 months away (I know nothing about your business but I know about estimates - double it :) On that basis, the proposed equity incentive wouldn't be insulting, no. One way to find out :) Good luck.