<html><head></head><body data-blackberry-caret-color="#00a8df" style="background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255); line-height: initial;"><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Assess the staffing situation and have contingencies in place for if you can't find enough developers. Obviously there's <span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;">a massive shortage in Ruby and FE/JS. I get calls on a weekly basis from start ups who never considered staffing problems until it arose and proceeded to cripple their progress. My advise is to consult with someone who knows the London tech markets before you start and have a strategy in place from day 1. I don't think the below time line would work today as it did in 2012 without an over reliance on contractors or something very special about the start up..</span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;"><br name="BB10" caretmarkerset="INVALID" class="markedForCaretMarkerRemoval"></span></div><div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><span style="font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; line-height: initial;">http://</span><span style="line-height: initial; color: rgb(56, 130, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; text-transform: lowercase; white-space: nowrap;">uk.linkedin.com/in/</span><strong style="line-height: initial; margin: 0px; padding: 0px; color: rgb(56, 130, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; text-transform: lowercase; white-space: nowrap;">louis</strong><span style="line-height: initial; color: rgb(56, 130, 34); font-family: Helvetica, Arial; font-size: 14px; text-transform: lowercase; white-space: nowrap;">beardsley/ </span></div> <div style="width: 100%; font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"><br name="BB10" caretmarkerset="INVALID" class="markedForCaretMarkerRemoval"></div> <div style="font-size: initial; font-family: Calibri, 'Slate Pro', sans-serif; color: rgb(31, 73, 125); text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);">Sent from my BlackBerry 10 smartphone.</div> <table width="100%" style="background-color:white;border-spacing:0px;"> <tbody><tr><td colspan="2" style="font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"> <div id="_persistentHeader" style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(181, 196, 223); border-top-width: 1pt; padding: 3pt 0in 0in; font-family: Tahoma, 'BB Alpha Sans', 'Slate Pro'; font-size: 10pt;"> <div><b>From: </b>Matthew Rudy Jacobs</div><div><b>Sent: </b>Monday, 3 March 2014 13:55</div><div><b>To: </b>MG Lim</div><div><b>Cc: </b>London Ruby Users Group</div><div><b>Subject: </b>Re: [LRUG] Startup Timeline</div></div></td></tr></tbody></table><div style="border-style: solid none none; border-top-color: rgb(186, 188, 209); border-top-width: 1pt; font-size: initial; text-align: initial; background-color: rgb(255, 255, 255);"></div><br><div id="_originalContent" style=""><div dir="ltr">This is not really about Ruby.<div><br></div><div>So, I'll give you one data point,</div><div>and it was my first end-to-end startup experience.</div><div>And in retrospect there were a lot of things we did wrong</div>
<div><ul><li>launching too late</li><li>quitting too soon</li></ul><div><br></div></div><div>The project was entirely Ruby and Rails, with custom bits of jQuery to stitch the interaction together.</div><div><br></div><div>
(if I did it again, I'd do it in Ember)</div><div><br></div><div>Importantly they already had enough cash on hand to run for a year</div><div>(otherwise they couldn't have afforded me)</div><div><br></div><div>Refer.me: (March - November 2012)</div>
<div><ul><li>month 0: ideation - 0 devs (just the client)</li><li>month 1: prototypes and rapid concept iteration - 1 dev (me)</li><li>months 2 & 3: build out a working product - 1 dev (me)</li><li>months 4: make it pretty and soft-launch - 2 devs (me + f/e dev) + 1 designer</li>
<li>months 5 & 6: make it more robust - 4 devs (me + f/e + 2 ruby devs) + 1 designer</li><li>month 7: present at TC Disrupt and respond to feedback - 4 devs + 1 designer</li><li>month 8: pivot</li></ul></div></div><div class="gmail_extra">
<br><br><div class="gmail_quote">On 3 March 2014 12:10, MG Lim <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:mirageglobe@gmail.com" target="_blank">mirageglobe@gmail.com</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
<div dir="ltr">Hi all,<div><br></div><div>I am curious about how things for how ideas move on.... -> panning out to projects -> gathering a team and finally to funding rounds?</div><div><br></div><div>More of a general discussion; but what have your experiences been; if you have been in that path or part of that path? "I wish I had done that in the beginning" moments..</div>
<div><br></div><div>Marketing hells? Traction problems and in reality, the project took a good 3~5 years before media reported it as an overnight success.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>PS: particularly with ruby-based frameworks / meteor styled frameworks; prototypes are quick to be churned out. </div>
<div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div>cheers</div><span class="HOEnZb"><font color="#888888">-- <br><div dir="ltr"><div>Jimmy MG Lim<br></div></div>
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