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3 weeks, but who's counting.

Also, the codebase wasn't thrown out. Some bits definitely were (we had a fair amount of legacy given 7 years), but large parts of the same team (e.g. SVP of Product, VP of Engineering) that built our product by and large designed and built the product that noon launched with.

I love Domainr, https://domainr.com/about/tlds

Dubai and by the extension doesn't require any sort of exit permit to leave the country unless you're giving up your residency at which time, you go through a pretty painless visa cancellation process. Very free movement given our strong aviation culture and infrastructure.

Brilliance.

I'd suggest snagging Bothsidesofthesandwich.com and translating the rest of Mark's content for consumption by the rest of the world. You clearly have a knack for it.

Ouch. I'm sorry to hear that. Given that we're located in Dubai, we seem to generally be routed via your Singapore data centre.

It would be nice if HTTPS traffic for paying customers was re-routed automatically to an alternative location.

Nice one! Our team had a great time building the experience at JadoPado.

A couple of weeks to change out search completely, get full faceting as well as additional indexes to support everything in Arabic.

I continue to be blown away by Algolia and it's potential.

An alternative for pure text is One Time Secret, https://onetimesecret.com/

Any particular reason for not supporting Linode?

I suggest checking out KnotStandard, http://www.knotstandard.com/

Could you include a beard length index next year? I'm not certain, but it definitely looks like it grew out somewhat over the year.

I'm all for a proper beard!

I was blown away by that too. Then it made sense considering it's Rocket behind it!

I'd have to agree. We saw this very recently in the Middle East & Turkey as well.

Out in Dubai it hurt us in terms of talent drain at crazy prices from a number of well established local firms. Their marketing spend helped to grow the local and regional e-commerce market (and still does via ventures that are still operational), but the nature of some of their exits when shutting down has ended up forcing consumers and other stakeholders to re-consider whether to trust e-commerce start ups and businesses in general. Not ideal when the sector is still very nascent.

Coverage: Wamda: http://www.wamda.com/2012/08/rocket-internet-to-exit-turkey-... http://www.wamda.com/2012/09/goodbye-mizado-hello-jumia-insi... Venture Village: http://venturevillage.eu/rocket-internet-to-shut-down-turkey...

As an aside, JP Morgan has put in a significant amount of money recently into some of Rocket's ventures: http://venturevillage.eu/lamoda-jp-morgan-zalando and http://venturevillage.eu/jp-morgan-rocket-internet-the-iconi...

I'd highly recommend this option. Tried them out a couple of months ago and the service is brilliant. Multiple Exit IPs and unlimited bandwidth including torrents takes the cake.