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One of the more funny ideas that came out of Startup Weekend Christchurch. Hate away :)

we got around this by agreeing on one salary level for everyone. works so far: http://blog.iwantmyname.com/2014/05/culture-at-iwmn-part-one...

On the issue of talent pool we have another experiment going. We don't require anyone to work from our office, work from wherever you feel like. I'll blog about that next but to an…

I absolutely agree with your second point but your first point is pretty centred around your personal point of view. I, for one, don't see defensive registrations as a smart way of…

ok, you won, Wellington is clearly less remote than Arrowtown. iWantMyName is based in NZ and we love it. I see the valley not as a requirement to be a successful startup "in the U…

at iWantMyName we use: - email/calendar/docs: google - hosting: slicehost, rackspace cloud, cloudprovider, dedicated servers - accounting: xero - analytics: google - project manage…

I know that there were already many discussions about payment gateways and comparisons between US/Non-US solutions but fact is that for many nice solutions a US bank account (and o…

it is funny to see that you go for a masters degree but want actual coders that have experience. in my experience hireing developers you are on the wrong track. if you want good co…

http://iWantMyName.com - built by 2 1/2 guys over the last two years out of frustration with the domain registrar business practices. we are not hugely profitable yet but we can li…

only works in the US. amazon payments would another one but US only as well. both insist in a US bank account

i try to go down that track now - decided to bill them for business analysis and see how things turn out ... i'll report here :-) billing only for the hours would be under value i …

my shift key is fine (programming in erlang actually forces me to use it) but growing up in a non english country - and being forced to a lot more capitalization than english has -…

your number one task as a manager is to find suitable sub tasks a developer can estimate on. this implies that you actually know your developers and their skills and give them only…

we had the same issue as we are in NZ and US based companies often have that panic that everything non US is not controllable. we went with worldpay and have no issues with them. w…

sometimes it is a shame that NZ is nice and beautiful but far away ... i take there is nothing planned for NZ, is there? Wellington is a living city with many startups we only meet…

a story about Catalyst, RabbitMQ and CouchDB. It was the first major rewrite after one year of operation. It was substantial and it paid off.

moved from germany to new zealand some years ago - have a small company now and love my life again - think i'll stay :-)