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Re:How the Holder Report applies to your startup on Wednesday June 21, 2017 @04:39PM (#14607704)
This is a really insightful translation of the Uber Holden report to help ensure diversity in team's of any size.
Re:Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @12:52PM (#6445707)
Thanks! We're not disclosing the sum, but we are happy and so are our investors.
Re:Lanyrd: From idea to exit – the story of our startup on Wednesday September 25, 2013 @12:29PM (#6445561)
Thanks!
Re:Lanyrd: the early days - honest story of our startup's launch on Monday September 03, 2012 @09:52AM (#4470358)
Thanks :) that was the idea; I wanted people to get an impression of how it actually felt to be there at the time.
Re:Lanyrd: the early days - honest story of our startup's launch on Monday September 03, 2012 @07:30AM (#4470001)
This is our story compiled from tweets and photos over the period of a month, we launched Lanyrd after a week of development and it took off pretty fast. This storify tries to capture those moments.
Re:PHP: A fractal of bad design on Tuesday April 10, 2012 @01:43AM (#3820877)
... and that's why we don't use English as a programming language.
Re:SQL Injection through HTTP Headers on Wednesday April 04, 2012 @02:32AM (#3796436)
Thinking about "sanitizing" puts you in the wrong frame of mind in my opinion - you should be thinking about ESCAPING. If you're constructing SQL queries sensibly (using an ORM or a library that replaces placeholders rather than concatenating strings together yourself) you won't even have to think about that.
Re:"Life After Y Combinator" Panel at SXSW on Wednesday March 09, 2011 @03:54PM (#2306348)
It is indeed, also uses all sorts of other exciting back-end moving parts - take a look at our colophon for more details: http://lanyrd.com/colophon
yeah I was so sure that someone would recognise me! I am the only girl in the front row in that photo, Simon is on my right
Thats wonderful to hear! we are getting quite a bit of traction in countries other than the UK and US which is fab
hehe :)

It was a long term honeymoon - we gave up our flat in Brighton and just set off into the world with just our backpacks and laptops. We were also ill in Casablanca (and it was Ramadan so couldn't find any restaurants open) so we rented a flat for two weeks to cook for ourselves and built and launched the first version of Lanyrd.