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The Economist - required reading for global economic news and opinion. Prospect - Excellent array of current affairs articles, all of which are thought-provoking. Private Eye - Lon…

Two things - the design is, well, okay but extremely simple.. It just doesn't have that finished look about it. And the app itself is incredibly simple, which makes me second guess…

Back when text messaging capability was a rarity on mobile phones, which were themselves rare, I was testing an SMS-based weather forecast service that I had written on behalf of o…

http://www.twitread.com Started to gain some traction, but beyond a (very) few amazon affiliate sales, I couldn't really see how to effectively monetise it.

What does the user care about? In your example, I guess they care about bandwidth usage and personal data. So in that light, I would inform them that a small amount of game-specifi…

Could simplification be helpful? I'm thinking that in a conservative B2B industry, offering too much too quickly from an unknown probably gets your target's risk radar bleeping. I …

Three books that really show the good, bad and ugly about building businesses from scratch and scaling them to significance: 1. How to Get Rich ( http://bit.ly/xGdV8 ) 2. Small Gia…

I really like the feel of the site. Agree with jjs - the sign-up form put me off. I want to get started now, and add info (eg Twitter, company name) later if I choose to do so. A l…

Thanks for the correction, voltageek! And Smashing Mag is an excellent resource indeed.

I think where one's design skills can be considered lacking, as I very much consider my own, simplicity becomes increasingly important and attractive as a design philosphy. Plenty …

1. Go on a diet. 2. Open [web|desktop] app. 3. Select diet plan (atkins; south beach; XYZ etc). 4. Select number of people in household. 5. Select number of people on diet. 6. Sele…

It's a tough decision. You should not ignore where your passions lie, however as has been suggested elsewhere if you want this to be your core revenue stream you must understand th…

Very much looking forward to being there! I don't have anything to pitch yet - just checking the scene out and expecting to meet some interesting people . No bright orange shirt bu…

Definitely - if you don't understand the market, the motivations for purchasing, the product development lifecycle and so on, how can you possibly sell anything beyond brute force …

Geoffrey Moore's Crossing the Chasm Bosworth/Holland's Customer-Centric Selling

I'm interested in how much technical documentation startups generate during the pre-launch phases. I'm particularly interested in YC invitees as they are in a very timebound contex…

DO IT! I did exactly this after some soul-searching with my wife over xmas '08. We figured that with my energy, ambition, ideas and so forth I could make something good happen with…

It would also be pretty cool to try and bring in some professional service providers, like accountants; solicitors and bankers, to provide advice and access to services. BusinessLi…

I'm Southampton based and find I spend huge amounts of time scouring techcrunchUK, mashable and very few others for UK startup news. The Times online and The Guardian online are bo…