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tomaitch

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    Comment #611879

    Great work Jed, hope it all goes well. It'll be interesting to see how it compares to YC and others.

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    Comment #577163

    As a general indicator of "traction", I don't mind the use of traffic estimates per se. But for comparing AU sites, these numbers are near enough to useless, because they measure "…

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    Comment #577051

    Rather than promote the scene, lists like this make it starkly apparent just how little startup activity there is in AU. On seeing a headline like this my first reaction is always …

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    Comment #568075

    Did you try searching for "Melbourne to Sydney on Qantas"? It works... http://adioso.com/search/melbourne-to-sydney-qantas.html We'd like to have all the airlines like Emirates, an…

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    Comment #564946

    It matters if your business is the type that can't prosper on determination alone. That kept us going for 6 years. Eventually we needed money and a supportive environment.

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    Comment #564892

    I should add that what we gained from YC more than anything else was confidence. With what we know now, we realise we possibly could have come to Silicon Valley and successfully la…

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    Comment #564883

    To some degree I'd agree with you more now having done YC than before. If you live in the USA and have ways of working yourself into Silicon Valley or some other startup culture, o…

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    Comment #564816

    We actually stayed for 11 days - we weren't going to fly all that way with the possibility of being unsuccessful, only to return immediately without having any fun. But we did it o…

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    Comment #564810

    We're back in Melbourne now, planning to return to the Valley in a couple of months and bracing ourselves for the immigration minefield.

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    Comment #531066

    That's what most people we talk to seem to do. Adioso is designed with this assumption.