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Laquo; Back to blog. This weekend was Startup School. And the YC team for organizing). The event was thought provoking in a different way for me this year. Usually it's a raw feeling of inspiration and wanting to build a successful startup so one day I can be a speaker and not an attendee. This time it left me more reflective. Differences in the talks this year were Tony Hsieh. Going into the psychology of why. People start companies and Paul Graham. A fantastic book I found via Kul. Event taking place i...
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The Big Week | Meal Ticket
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March 5, 2007. So what’s been happening on the business side of things? We finally launched our eBay selling tool – it’s now live at auctomatic.com. It was a totally different experience to launching boso for a few reasons:. 1) This time it wasn’t a student side project and we have all the experience from boso this time around. 8211; A lot of the time he doesn’t even care about the actual idea, in his words “in a year the idea will have changed so much anyway it makes it pointless to invest o...You are c...
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Facebook Marketplace stirs up old dreams | Meal Ticket
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Facebook Marketplace stirs up old dreams. May 14, 2007. So today the day finally came when facebook launched their marketplace. While the launch of FB marketplace wasn’t particularly surprising my reaction to it has been. As you probably know I was a co-founder of boso.com. The other thing that makes it all slightly surreal is actually seeing and using the facebook marketplace in real life. As facebook continued to grow we always knew it was a potentially serious threat. I reached a stage with bo...Havin...
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May | 2007 | Meal Ticket
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Archive for May, 2007. Facebook Marketplace stirs up old dreams. May 14, 2007. So today the day finally came when facebook launched their marketplace. While the launch of FB marketplace wasn’t particularly surprising my reaction to it has been. As you probably know I was a co-founder of boso.com. The other thing that makes it all slightly surreal is actually seeing and using the facebook marketplace in real life. As facebook continued to grow we always knew it was a potentially serious threat. I ...Havin...
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November | 2006 | Meal Ticket
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Archive for November, 2006. Silicon Valley comes to Oxford (and vice versa). November 21, 2006. This post in a nutshell:. Has been accepted onto YCombinator. And we’re relocating to San Francisco in January. The 10am Garage session at SV Comes to Oxford was a bit fluffy for my liking and I’m cyncial about the potential for the SBS to create a YCombinator in the UK (though I’d be more than happy to lick the egg off my face if they managed it). An incubator type fund founded by Paul Graham. The SBS represe...
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What I Expected From YC and What I Got | Meal Ticket
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What I Expected From YC and What I Got. April 15, 2007. I was re-reading the blog post. 1 How we got to YC. The tipping point came when I read Paul Graham’s blog post about the mistakes that start ups make – near the top of the list was location – and forwarded the link to Kul. His response was pretty brief, “Well why don’t we just move out there then? Our interview was probably a more person focused that product focused interview. At that point we had a launched product, boso. The YC brand is incredibly...
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The lessons I’ve learnt during Y Combinator | Meal Ticket
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The lessons I’ve learnt during Y Combinator. March 11, 2007. The benefits of being around other startups and founders simply cannot be described properly in words. If you are stuck somewhere trying to do things by yourself without any other startups you only have one choice. Move. Yes there is always the chance you’ll get uber lucky and launch your killer startup and suceed from Alasaka but why make it so hard for yourself? Why not have the statistics work for you rather than against you? Ok I think I...
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April | 2007 | Meal Ticket
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Archive for April, 2007. What I Expected From YC and What I Got. April 15, 2007. I was re-reading the blog post. 1 How we got to YC. The tipping point came when I read Paul Graham’s blog post about the mistakes that start ups make – near the top of the list was location – and forwarded the link to Kul. His response was pretty brief, “Well why don’t we just move out there then? Our interview was probably a more person focused that product focused interview. At that point we had a launched product, boso.