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| bio | website | |
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| location | Cambridge, United Kingdom | |
| age | 38 | |
| visits | member for | 2 years, 2 months |
| seen | Apr 12 at 8:55 | |
| stats | profile views | 141 |
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 10 |
answered | 'Startup' enterprise software application, question about ownership between investors and developers |
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Jan 11 |
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UK Taxation: Do you need to pay tax on revenue gathered from advertisements and donations +1 what he said. |
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Jan 3 |
answered | After hiring a person responsible for SEO for 3 months and having the site online for 5 months how good is it to have 9,000 visitors/month from SEO? |
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Dec 30 |
answered | Joining a startup within its first year - salary/equity expectations? |
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Oct 6 |
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What was the one thing that most contributed to your startup success? I'd suggest balancing that with a tip from Seth Godin in his little book 'The Dip' where he talks about how important it is to know when to quit. Sometimes it doesn't pay to keep banging on at something! |
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Oct 5 |
answered | Checklist of things for presenting for Angel Investment |
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Oct 5 |
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It's a very new concept and struggling to convince the world in 3 seconds- help? nice answer Joseph |
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Oct 5 |
answered | Is there any reason to scrap a start-up, when you find out there is more competition then originally thought? |
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Sep 29 |
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How can I generate Sales in a niche market? grammar/typos |
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Sep 29 |
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As a single founder, is it worth the effort to add a new (novice) co-founder? The reason most successful startups are founded by more than one person is because there are very few people in the world that can do everything well enough to get the business off the ground. Usually someone is technical, but not so savvy marketing-wise, or vice versa, and sometimes people just want to have the support of an experienced entrepreneur to bounce ideas and decisions off of. If you find someone where u feel some sort of creative spark ignite when you're together then go in with them. When you find good partners the product is greater than the sum of the parts. |
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Sep 26 |
answered | Is my role as non technical guy valuable enough in this case? |
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Sep 26 |
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Would Skype's stock buyback plan be as evil if they paid fair market value? Disagree also. The option to buy back at exercise price means the option is worthless to the employee. The company still went to the trouble of setting up the scheme; which can only be construed as them trying to mislead the employee into thinking they had something of worth. Using something contractually worthless as an incentive - that's evil. |
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Sep 16 |
answered | As a single founder, is it worth the effort to add a new (novice) co-founder? |
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Aug 11 |
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What are some best practices for managing user feedback? It's a desktop app for the Mac is it? A bit more info on the type of application would help. |
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Aug 10 |
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Where do I find company information for revenue projections? another groupon SEC filing |
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Aug 10 |
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Where do I find company information for revenue projections? added caveat |
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Aug 10 |
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Where do I find company information for revenue projections? Yes, as you know LinkedIn did IPO recently but their model is very different to Groupon. All they have in common is the internet, really - and there are lots of public internet companies. It's hard to generalise around what level of subscriptions/traffic etc will lead to a successful company as business models leverage that traffic differently and some markets are harder to get into than others. |
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Aug 9 |
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Where do I find company information for revenue projections? add more info |
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Aug 9 |
answered | Where do I find company information for revenue projections? |
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Aug 5 |
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Importance of a Conference and Networking +1 agree. Go and understand what makes affiliate marketers tick, if your proposition to them is pitched right, you could have an army of marketers working for you without breaking the bank. |
