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While Twilio and Amazon Connect have some integrations it does not appear that Connect is built on top of Twilio. The Amazon FAQs says that all telephony services are charged separ…

Great post. It was last year that there was a lot of chatter from everyone, worrying that we were in a bubble. Since then the talk of bubble has apparently decreased but the real s…

This is awesome for a weekend hack! Good fun :)

500 has always been about startups with some degree of traction. Out of our batch, all bar 2 had a product, and over half had revenue already.

Actually I'm fairly sure there were 2 teams with single founders at the time of application. All had a team though, that's the most important thing.

This is cool. We currently host our app with Engine Yard and there's been a number of times when we've wanted to put in extra capacity for short bursts but it's impractical to do i…

Which makes me think of customer development... And how difficult it can be to sort through which feedback matters and is worth iterating around and what you should ignore. I think…

Before I moved to silicon valley, I used to come here a couple of times a year, visiting as a Scottish person living in London. I would deliberately schedule any important meetings…

I think they don't want to make a noise because the next Air will have much of the power (but lacking the connectivity). This is literally one for the Pros. Can't see the line cont…

I'm the other cofounder of Teamly. Matt is very kind to describe me so nicely, but I feel just as lucky to have found him. As well as being extremely inquisitive he gets stuff done…

Great post. Janice Fraser's LUXr classes (and slides) are worth a look. What I particularly like is for the first step, you describe setting a clear user goal, and they expnad on t…

Thanks for the comments folks :)

This article summarises what makes the valley both awesome and absurd. I got mixed emotions reading it. It manages to be both appalling and inspirational. And Bill Nguyen makes the…

FYI, the original quote is by motivational "guru" Jim Rohn: “You are the average of the five people you spend the most time with.”

Google Voice is a great product which could be so much better, it's pretty clear it's one of those things Google has not looked after or worked on much. It's also a complete pain t…

Thanks for pointing that out, but putting it another way, the things I expected I would benefit from by being in London did occur, along with the pleasant and unexpected bonus of t…