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Comment · 15 years ago
I followed Dharmeshs' blog from one of the earliest posts.

It seemed from that outside that he learnt about entrepreneurship at college, and then simply went about the business of putting that into practice.

Theory grounded in the type of common sense espoused on this site.

Congrats to him & Brian for making such a huge success of it. Has been very interesting to follow.

Comment · 16 years ago
Not exactly what you are looking for, but it's still a rare and very valuable person who sits between front end designer and developer, equally at home in Photoshop and an IDE.

This is going to be massive over the next few years with web, mobile, tablets, internet TV, paid content etc. Interactive consumer and media experiences.

It's not art as you described, but imagine it would scratch the creative itch and keep you gainfully employed!

Comment · 16 years ago
Is that really how much VC dilutes you?

From 94 > 37% series A is incredible, and ending up with 12.5%.

I wouldn't exactly be crying into my beer today if I was them, but I have to wonder if VC was worth it vs building organically for a few more years.

Especially when they are all Amazon based etc. Where did the money go?

Comment · 16 years ago
Is freelancing really viable for developers?

It obviously works for writers, designers, artists etc, but for various reasons, I've always been skeptical about whether the work would be there for a developer.

Comment · 16 years ago
The feature I need most. From the IPhone app, I would like to be able to select a file and email the file to myself or someone else - not the link to the file. Dropbox is blocked at work but sometimes I really need to get an important file from there. I'm a paying susbcriber. Keep up the good work!
Comment · 16 years ago
Agreed. I've lost track of how many times I've gone to a Quora answer, thought 'I must take a closer look at Quora', gone to the root domain, realised you need a Facebook login, then just navigated away.

I even have a Facebook account somewhere - just don't like logging into another site like this for some reason.

Comment · 16 years ago
I am looking for rails and JQuery people for remote gigs. You won't be getting rich off of it but get in touch if interested - [email protected]
Comment · 16 years ago
What a sensationalist headline.

So what if they've introduced charges? If someone else provides this for free, go there. If not, cough up!

Comment · 16 years ago
Thanks very much Nicholas. Really apprecaite the comments there.

Maybe ping me a mail if you are interested - happy to keep you in the loop and may be able to repay the favour next time you need feedback.

Comment · 16 years ago
Yes would really appreciate that - seems like we may be complimentary in some ways.
Comment · 16 years ago
I definetly need to revisit pricing based on this feedback.

True re price sensitivity of the small business, but in a way, the target market is the fundamental USP. Nameley, take a tool that the bigger guys are using and make it available in a scalable fashion to small businesses.

Re thousands of subscriptions... If I could take 100 at that price I'd be happy with the outcome.

Plus I think there's a number of related areas I could move on to off the back of this.

Thanks for the comment - really useful. Also, if you have 5 minutes, feel free to include more info on your experience or link up with me be email twitter etc.

Comment · 16 years ago
Thanks very much for this.

I wasn't aware of CardStar - a fair amount of overlap there.

+1 to that killer application in a sentence. I'm not quite there with my elevator pitch.

Comment · 16 years ago
Thanks for your insight.

I guess I do want to sell both concepts - but definetly need to re-balance the two slightly.

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