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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!

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

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

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 42

This is one of those “it’s easier to write you’re going to do it than it is to do it posts”. Last week the focus was public relations. Well we have set the wheels in motion, but nothing big has happened yet. Like so many things we dive

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 41

Wow! Two releases in two weeks. That’s right, we shipped a new release again over this weekend just gone. It includes two important new features — a share of voice measure and an hourly average. This changed plans slightly as we decided not to heavily push the last release, knowing

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Reflections on Start-Up life: Week 40

The awesome news this week is that we have released the new version of Tribalytic! It’s been a hard road and has involved Alex re-writing the engine almost from the ground up. We’ve got a new database, new index structures, large amounts of codes re-written into C++ (much

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New business cards with Tribalytic branding. Pity reverse poorly cropped but I’m too cheap to fuss! /cc @alexdong

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Reflections on startup life: Week 39

We haven’t shipped the new release, however it has passed a few significant milestones entering into integration and now “live” and able to be tested. Unfortunately once we started wrapping everything back up together (integrating the engine into the website), the speed performances we thought we had gained have

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Alex’s contribution to the startup blog world

Just realised I neglected to mention this here. http://startup.alexdong.com/ Alex has now started his own startup blog — if you’re enjoying reading this one, then you might like to read Alex’s which balances out both sides of the view on what’s happening. His latest post

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Reflections on startup life: Week 38

With a new release on the immediate horizon, the mood is picking up again. All the work and frustration over the last few weeks is starting to gel together with a clearer idea on where we are going, a much better understanding of the market and some strong ideas on

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 37

Typically we know how to do whatever it is that we need to do (we may not always be the best at it, but we know the mechanics on how to go about it), but we sometimes don’t do it because of blind spots in our thinking. The realisation

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Reflections on start-up life: Week 36

It was a confronting week in a number of different ways. Definitely not quite back on an upward swing yet! Under pinning all this is a personal milestone this week — a switch from money set aside for this venture, to now starting to eat into personal savings. Really in a