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2016

Help with next steps for a startup

Have you thought about applying to Y Combinator? The reason I ask is that “I have lots of expertise in language learning and basically zero expertise in startups, market research, business, fundraising, app pricing, etc” is pretty much YC’s sweet spot: they know that it’s much easier teaching those things to engineers and makers than it is to teach engineering to business people (I’m assuming you have product and engineering skills based on your description of your progress so far).

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2009

OSM needs new servers. OpenStreetMap need to raise £10,000 to buy a new API database server.

# 5th February 2009, 7:27 pm / openstreetmap, donations, fundraising