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26.The Danger of Releasing Too Early (gojko.net)
The examples the author cites:
- a film which was released in 'beta' at Cannes, giving it a bad name
- voice-recognition of contact names for mobiles, where the technology became widespread before it was usable
- his own experience of demoing a product without a nice interface to a client, causing the client to lose faith in the project.
What is the commonality between these three scenarios that isn't generally shared by web startups? (I don't know if the article was aimed at web startups, but it's relevant here). Each time, the crappy version 1 was shown to a large segment or some key players in the market (film critics, a huge number of mobile phone owners, and the sole client), and putting them off the product.
I have a friend who is worried about this for his web startup. "If people see it when it looks crap, they won't come back". The thing with web startups is the few hundred people who might see it in the crappy phase will likely be a very small slice of your total market.
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27.FreelanceStudent (www.freelancestudents.co.uk)
Student jobs board. Built by UCL graduates
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28.My Start-up Pick Shopping (pickshopping.com)
I am in london for launch my french Start-up in UK
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29.Reddit founder doing a seminar in Edinburgh next Thursday (ohanian.eventbrite.com)
Wish I could go, but you have to be based in Scotland to attend.
"Qualifying start-ups and entrepreneurs must be based in Scotland and have intent to start and grow high impact internet ventures. Students and recent graduates who are in the exploratory stage of such a process are welcome to sign up for the seminar as well."
Definitely worth applying for a place if you can, though
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30.Order Takeaway Food Online from E-resistible.co.uk (www.e-resistible.co.uk)
Feedback welcomed on this recent Warwick start up.
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31.Programmers Support Group: would this work in Warwick? (www.ajaimk.com)
A group of students at Georgia Tech get together to work together on online tutorials to interesting languages or frameworks, helping each other when they get stuck. Anyone interested?
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32.headache relief for programmers - regular expression generator (www.reddit.com)
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33.Myth: Entrepreneurship Will Make You Rich (www.startuplessonslearned.com)
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34.What’s in a name? Calling your startup (startupcafe.co.uk)
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35.Ircster - AJAX based IRC client (ircster.com)
Built by a Warwick student. Connect to server irc.uwcs.co.uk and /join #web-entrepreneurs !
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37.Is Unit Testing worth the effort? (joelg.info)
Unit testing is a lot like going to the gym. You know it is good for you, all the arguments make sense, so you start working out. There's an initial rush, which is great, but after a few days you start to wonder if it is worth the trouble.
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38.FatStudent.co.uk , What do you guys think? (www.fatstudent.co.uk)
Hi guys, we are UCL graduates and just launched fatstudent.co.uk
FatStudent helps student earn and save money.
Earn money: Through a par-time job board were candidates are able to record a 30 second video answering two questions provided by the employer -showcasing their softskills (attitude, communication skills).
Save Money: We also offer a deal board where students can see the cheapest meal, beer, coffee and wifi.
What do you guys think?
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39.Companies Don't Get Killed by Competition, They Commit Suicide (blogs.zoho.com)
"if there's anything I've learned from my years in the tech world is that companies don't get killed by competition, they usually find creative ways to commit suicide."
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40.The 10 Worst Things Startups do (scobleizer.com)
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41.OnePage - your online business card (www.myonepage.com)
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42.Wikipic - make articles out of images (www.wikipic.net)
Made by a 16-year old web entrepreneur from Manchester
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43.Refactoring vs Rewriting (www.targetprocess.com)
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44.Kevin Rose - 9 ways to take your site from 1 to 1 million users (carsonified.com)
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45.JISC Developer Days (www.dev8d.org)
University of London event, bringing together the cream of the crop of software developers along with users, and technological tinkerers in an exciting forum.
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46.Image processing startup built on technology inspired by the human brain (www.vitamindinc.com)
Check out the introduction video!
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47.Ruby gem to create fast, native-style browser apps without plugins (demo.sproutcore.com)
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48.Sim City on crack (www.scalablecity.net)
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49.Wishpot.com about to launch in the UK (www.newswiretoday.com)
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50.Continuous Deployment at IMVU: Doing the impossible fifty times a day. (timothyfitz.wordpress.com)
The high level of our process is dead simple: Continuously integrate (commit early and often). On commit automatically run all tests. If the tests pass deploy to the cluster. If the deploy succeeds, repeat.
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