mcdowall

Kensington, London

Large publishing title in the UK. We're expanding our development teams across our two titles following relaunching both sites, we'd like individuals with a passion to work on a high traffic site and be able to think on their feet in a high paced environment.

Seeking - Web Developer x2

* Advanced JS - Developing products/widgets/microsites within the escenic content management system

* HTML 4/5 - Working on commercial solutions with premium brands across both titles

* XML - We consume and send out a number of feeds, an excellent understanding of XML is needed

Others - CSS / XHTML / Ajax / RSS

Feel free to email me - jameskmcdowall@gmail.com

Congratulation Sahil, best of luck.

In december I bought a Macbook Air, iPhone and passed down my iPad to my nephew. I don't begrudge any of their profit, well done to them I say.

Has anyone a good recommendation for setting up a US company for someone based in the UK (or anywhere else)

I can relate to this, my maths is pretty decent, english language something I always struggled with but I always excelled at visual spacial 'tests', case in point being the 7 rounds tests I had to take for UK Air Traffic Control, they certainly value visual spacial skills!.

The 33 by Jonathan Franklin, but aside from that, most of the recommendations by Derek Sivers.

I had always imagined they would try to dabble in flight search but always assumed the sheer volume of their travel ppc clients would restrict it. Big revenue gamble.

5%

Outstanding idea and execution, they should have product booklets commuters can take away with them, simple magazine with smartcodes and shop at anytime.

Great series wasn't it, much like those first 4 seasons of West Wing he wrote

Can I grab one please, thanks.

I wish I could stick to that rule your parents have adopted!. Case in point for Firefly, Flashforward, Surface and The Event most recently for me.

Invite only and centralised on techy beta users. The proof is in the pudding when my Nan, my Mum and my 10 year old nephew try ane use it and find none of their friends on it.

H1-B possible?

jameskmcdowall at googles email service, look forward to hearing from you :)

I'm torn either way on this post, on one hand I agree that you should go tell them to find their own resources but on the other hand and from experience as a 'non tech' founder myself even getting some of these items done isn't enough to get a co founder, you need a good network too.

For clarification, I worked previously at startups where development was outsourced and I was working as a project manager. This time round with my own idea I knew I didn't have that luxury and would need to contribute a he'll of a lot more if I could be lucky enough to tempt a co founder to take on the bulk of the technical development.

So what did I do, after a few months of procrastinating over the idea I finally decided what better way to get going than to learn a new language and code (I already know HTML / CSS / asp.net back in the day). I looked at languages that seemed to have a good following and active support forums that if I got stuck I could ask for help in, I chose Ruby on Rails and ordered two books on Amazon.

It was really difficult at the start but after a while I found things were clicking into place, albeit using a lot of trial and error. I installed irc and became active on the rails channel and found the guys really helpful on there.

So after a month or so I got through the books and figure I was ready to start planning and applying my ideas to what I had learnt, this was the hardest part of all and still is. Simple things like image uploading using AWS or Paperclip I found took me days to get my head around as a lot of this was alien to me and outside the comfort zone of the tutorials. I progressed and thought it was about time I start developing the front end UI so started getting to work on photoshop creating templates and designs, I found some great resources like designmoo and iconfinder which helped me in this process. After the designs were done I reached out to a previous contractor who had experience in rails and HTML/CSS and paid him to cut and code it to fit the view, I setup a Heroku hosting account, configured the DNS and hosted the code on Github for collaboration.

I suppose the site was now at 75% ready, I had feedback from a few angel investors that it was a good idea and that to get in touch when I had a working prototype, this is where the delays set in, I just couldn't find a co founder to help with that all important final backend work.

See in your post you state a co founder should bring some of the qualities you point out such as do the front end or learn to code or business networking, I've done all of them and more yet I am no nearer to finding someone local who I can get onboard. I know the first part of being a successful co founder is being able to sell yourself and your product but I think it's sometimes forgotten how difficult and time consuming development and design is to get to grips with. Whilst I know this may come across as a rather random reply I thought it at least fruitful to show that some non tech founders are willing to get their hands dirty with some code and in fact the other half, the finding a co founder is equally a struggle as learning to code

That being said if anyone is interested please feel free to get in contact ;)

I look at my tax deductions each month in the UK and sometimes feel like weeping, then I see figures such as 'Doctor Visit ~$95' and take for granted not having to pay for healthcare.

Just out of curiosity, was that $8/9 for a pint/litre of beer or a 4 pack. When I was in NYC last year I don't recall it being anywhere near that expensive.

Congrats to Onswipe, I always delight when I come across one of their customer blogs, such a great interface for my iPad browsing experience.

Also I think Jason has done some pretty decent blog posts in the last year

Are you stating that flight attendants worldwide should go on strike, or just the Virgin ones?. My friend has just completed flight attendant training at Virgin, it's an intensive 6 week course with exams etc and the 40 or so that went through th training were selected from in excess of 2,000 applications.

I think your experience of Virgin is great, but I think your comment that they should go on strike because they offer great service is way off. The experience you had is most likely due to the sheer quality of the training and their impeccably high standards, it's also these qualities that mean they are extremely highly regarded talent in their industry.

So essentially $1100 for ~600 likes, I certainly wouldn't be happy with that return. It's an informative piece but I think your summary is a bit off regarding the campaign a success generally.

I think by simply joining Facebook groups in this sector and engaging with the group you could've achieved 600 likes in the same timescale and saved yourself the money.

Rather confused that it stated I should get 85% equity yet I was a weak CEO, bizarre

The shakes are advertised in most bars on the menu's and A boards outside, all very commonplace I found.

They have, I went to the Gili Islands 2 years ago, no cars and they advertise legal mushroom shakes, also amazing island for diving (not in conjunction however!)

Example http://www.flickr.com/photos/sgoralnick/2625980738/

Hey Saikat,

Absolutely, could do it over some screen sharing or something, email on the way.

Great list! Using a few of those myself

If i can be cheeky I'd love an intro to the guys at Stripe, think it was a fair few months ago I registered my email for their Beta and would love to implement it for my startup.

Having dealt with the local advertising model myself (restaurant virtual tours) I can testify how god damn hard it is to get money out of small business owners so the success of Groupon is a surprise to me.

From a consumer perspective I unsubscribed a few months ago as I really didnt want to hear about a Botox or Massage deal each and every morning. It was good for xmas presents I will admit but in my local area the variety of the offers was somewhat limited (and Its by no means a small town), I shouldnt imagine I will check the site until around mid December again.

I get 23 days holiday entitlement plus UK bank holidays which this year thanks to Prince William adds on another 9 days.

Like some others however, I have dreamt about travelling long term so have handed my notice in, managed to secure some small freelance gigs and leave next wednesday for Bangkok, my holiday entitlement just wasn't enough ;)

What would you say your monthly outgoings are on hosting, staff etc?

How many domains were you managing to achieve this?

Also, how did you monetize, ads or affiliates?

Europe?