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Yep - I found lots of the grammar on the site jarring, and little things like 10$/month - the convention is $10/month, and it looks really odd. You should get a couple of hours of a copywriter's time to go over it, there's lots of little quirks.

Dunno, at least you still have a soul.

Will hopefully pick mine up this year (submitting in autumn), so 36...

Properly lol'd IRL at the Chuck palaniuk comment. Harsh but very funny.

There's no requirement to or expectation that they will be. Papers are not required to present any kind of balance, as long as what they say is broadly true (external pluralism), for a given value of true. The broadcast media (the free-to-air ones) are required to be demonstrably internally pluralistic, to show a variety of sources and viewpoints within their output - and that applies across BBC, ITV, Ch4 and Channel 5, but not Sky News; goes back to when Radio came on stream in the 1930s.

Hahaha I had one of those yesterday. My profile lists my company I started for side projects, then my role as a specialist at my actual employer. I got an email trying to find out if I was interested in more jobs like {{founded_company + specialist_role + employer_name}} all run together.

I agree- would definitely be interested in reading that!

This, a thousand times this. Wealth is not a skills set.

Ricardo Semler - Maverick is a good one for non heirarchal approaches. The AES case study of holarchy is v interesting. Swombat's blog (easily findable!) is a trove of material on startups and moving from corporate to startup, as are the Granttree and Escape The City blogs.

Hah, glad it's not just me. It's also the thing I hit if I'm trying to think of what I was doing/am idle for a moment... typing 'news.' just seems to flow from my fingers if they're unoccupied.

Definitely waiting till the tech is a tiny bit better before I request drones fly at my windows with hammers...

;)

This is the mechanic story all over: Guy takes his car to a garage because it keeps breaking down, and the mechanic leans in and listens to the engine for a minute. He goes and gets a hammer and listens to the engine again, and then raps sharply on the engine casing. The engine goes back into sync and stops breaking down.

The mechanic says "that'll be £500, please." The guy's outraged: "But all you did was tap it!"

Mechanic replies "it was a pound for the tap, and £499 for knowing where to tap."

Edit: Crap, beaten to it.

Really? I mean, that represents astonishingly bad value for a bunch of reasons. The first is that that's not SEIS covered, because it vastly reduces (by 70%) the risk exposure of the capital, and consequently the %. Especially if you'll include video games tax credits on thus back end that let you stretch that runway. Beyond that, you've also not used the full SEIS value -£150k, so again, shot yourself in there foot. This wouldn't be typical of valuations that I see working with startups, it's far more in the order of 10-17.5% for £150k (with SEIS coverage). Gaming is obviously it's own beast, but the same rules on making the investment tax efficient for the investor apply, and I'm surprised anyone gets any investment with ought SEIS any more.

With that in mind - advice is always to raise as high as you can on angel, because it's covered for the investor, and you can only do it once.