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Reflections on startup life: Week 62

It’s been 62 weekly posts and although this one is now really pushing the boundaries of “a week”, I’m not going to let it go past. I’m mentally saving a couple of things for next week (ie. in two days time…) so I’ll make this more

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Reflections on startup life: Week 61

Wow, I’m not sure what happened this week — the weekly reflection completely slipped my mind! I mentioned last week that we had to take a break. It’s been so good for us! Although we haven’t pushed a lot of visible features in the last week, we’ve

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Reflections on startup life: Week 60

By the end of last week both Alex and I were tired. We were pushing through, getting things done and stuffing up along the way. With the exception of Christmas Day and a little bit on New Years Eve, we’ve both been putting in anywhere from 12–16+ hours

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Reflections on startup life: Week 59

Please excuse the typos, for once I can blame my iPhone and not my rushed typing. I’m quietly pleased to look back at last weeks goals of New Servers implemented and Social Features done and realize that we’ve done that and much more. Honestly, it can feel like

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New feature: See who else has shared the same link…

One thing you’ve probably noticed and has perhaps frustrated you is that when you’re reviewing your links, you could only see 5 of the people who shared the same link as you. Trunk.ly would tell you that there was others that had also shared it, but you

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Reflections on startup life: Week 58

Not quite sure where I’m at! Things have been incredibly hectic still, thankfully Christmas hit and slowed things up for a bit. We are gradually making the changes we need to focus 100% on Trunk.ly for the next month or two (or more). We’ve had to let

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Reflection on startup life: Week 57

Sorry, no time this week. Suffice to say the wave finally hit. We got Trunk.ly out the door (much earlier than we intended) and we’ve been chasing our tails ever since. We’ve caught the wave and we are surfing it for all we are worth. 16+ hour

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Trunk.ly update — what an awesome afternoon

It’s been a fairly insane afternoon — with the rumor that Delicious is going to be shut down, everyone was talking about links. If only we knew someone who had a link service… oh, wait! That would be us. We poked a few ants nest to stir up some interest

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Reflections on startup life: Week 56

When I consider that last week I touched on 5 out of 5 projects, started learning a new language and framework, plus spoke at the Australian Language Technology Association conference on Thursday afternoon, I think I know why I feel like I’m doing about 10 jobs. The vast majority

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Reflection on startup life: Week 55

The way in which people use product is endlessly fascinating. For example, with Trunk.ly (which collects links from multiple sources) one of the very first features that most people requested was to filter links by source. So we added this in. A week after launch, no one is using

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Reflections on startup life: Week 54

Last week was a cracker — lots done, both of our contracts have had substantial progress and are 80% — 90% done now. The great news is we freed up some time to focus on our new, now not so super-secret project. For the curious, it’s called http://trunk.ly and

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Reflections on startup life: Week 53

I admit to some nagging thoughts in the back of my mind. Last week was busy — we are delivering two contracts between Alex and I, continuing to operate Tribalytic and work on our own projects. But that’s not exceptional or even interesting, lots of people are very busy. For

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Reflections on startup life: Week 52

Just over twelve months ago, this appeared on this blog New beginnings — I’ve resigned. Shortly followed a few weeks later by Reflections on startup life: Week One. I made no promises in that first post but I did say that “I’d like to try and make this a

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Reflection on startup life: Week 51

Because these posts are after the completion of the week, I can’t help but think ahead a little. It’s now a year since… (ok, I’ll save this for next week). Last week was a short week and having blogged on Thursday, there’s not a great deal

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Reflections on Startup life: Week 50

Did you miss me? It’s been bugging me all week that I haven’t yet done my weekly post. Let’s just all pretend this is Monday and move on :-) After 50 weeks of this, I think it’s only the second time I haven’t posted on

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Reflections on Startup life: Week 49

For this weeks blog post there are three things on the top of my mind. * Being passionate. * The value of time. * Reframing Being Passionate I received sad news last week. A very close friend (we were best man at each others weddings) who was in his very early forties passed

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Reflection on startup life: Week 48

Too much to do, to little time to write, but after 48 weeks I can’t stop now. So a collection of loose thoughts. 1. Everyone needs a cofounder. More importantly you need a cofounder with a different perspective. How else can you have hard discussions. 2. You’re not

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Reflections on startup life: Week 47

Another week and another major new client. Here’s hoping I can say the same again next week too! After a slow burn, we’ve hit a few runs with clients recently which is very re-assuring. So much so we have some “key” clients we’ll start advertising on our

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 46

Deep breath. What a week. Every now and again I have a week like this one just gone where I think, wow, that’s some kind of turning point. * We launched Distlr * We signed World Vision Australia as a client for Tribalytic for 12 months. * We had another major client

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Launch of Distlr — The event specific Twitter client

If you’ve been following this blog for a while, one thing you may of noticed in the last few weeks is some cryptic references to “Project X”. Well, I’m really pleased to announce the launch of our new project, Distlr — The Essence of the Event. One of the

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Reflections on startup life: Week 45

The rest of the holiday cruised by very nicely. I took one day “off” to work (love the iPhone and tethering for keeping me online wherever I go). Aside from that, plenty of theme parks and generally a good time. Still, I was itching to get home. It’s great

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Reflections on Start-Up life: Week 44

It was a short week, I worked Monday and Tuesday then from Wednesday I’ve been off on leave. It’s been a great holiday so far. Much needed, yet I can’t shake the feeling I’m “cheating” on myself — this is time to be putting in, not taking

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 43

Is it the spring in the air? I don’t know, but I think the fact that Alex and I sat down and really challenged ourselves on what to do differently has brought a different vibe this week. That and two potential customers got back with strong buying indications which

Ella and Jasper preparing for the big day when she turns 10 tomorrow!

Ella and Jasper preparing for the big day when she turns 10 tomorrow!