Finding a Technical Co-Founder
People often ask how to find the tech nerd to join their startup. Well, these guys summed it up perfectly:
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flask-geoip2 my first open source project!
I’ve finally gone and done it. My first open source project is now live on github: https://github.com/mattharley/flask-geoip2
This code makes it super simple to create your own geoip server based on the brilliant MaxMind database and python libraries. Clone it, fork it (fork me? fork you!), pull request and do whatever you like to it.
* This product includes GeoLite2 data created by MaxMind, available from http://www.maxmind.com
Getting npm, d3, nvd3, django-bower, django-bower-nvd3 and Heroku to play nicely together!
Wiki:
https://github.com/mattharley/matt/wiki/Django-nvd3-Heroku
Bit of a pain!
But here’s a simple way to do it…
Use django-nvd3 and django-bower
pip install django-nvd3 django-bower
pip freeze > requirements.txt
git add .
git commit -m "don't forget your requirements.txt!"
Use a multi-buildpack
heroku config:set BUILDPACK_URL=https://github.com/ddollar/heroku-buildpack-multi.git
Use the Node and Python buildpacks together
# ./.buildpacks
https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-nodejs.git
https://github.com/amanjain/heroku-buildpack-python-with-django-bower.git
Download bower using npm
# ./package.json
{"private": true,"dependencies": {"bower": "1.4.1"}}
User django-bower to collect its assets
# ./bin/post_compile
# install bower components
./manage.py bower_install
Tell django where to find bower
# settings.py
...
import os
APPLICATION_DIR = os.path.dirname(globals()['__file__'])
HEROKU = bool(os.environ.get('DATABASE_URL'))
BOWER_COMPONENTS_ROOT = os.path.join(APPLICATION_DIR, 'components')
# where to find your local bower
BOWER_PATH = '/usr/local/bin/bower'
if HEROKU:
BOWER_PATH = '/app/node_modules/bower/bin/bower'
BOWER_INSTALLED_APPS = (
'd3#3.3.13',
'nvd3#1.7.1',
)
...
Credits
Lean On Me – Bill Withers (Cover)
Recorded with Trevor Davy – singing coach to the stars.
Notes from Reverse Takeover Morning Startup
Morning Startup – Perth
Wednesday, March 25 at 7:30 AM
Is Back Door Listing your startup on the ASX a good idea? (Expert Panel) – Hear from those that do it, and have done it – The whys and wherefores …
Details: http://www.meetup.com/Morning-Startup-Perth/events/219930098/
400M-1M a year plus upfront to be on the ASX
Investor relations
Accountants
Lawyers
CEO willing to take phone calls
Continuous news/deal flow. Otherwise “gravity” kicks in
Elements:
Value of the shell
Value of the vendor
Due diligence on both – vendor has to be audited
The trifecta:
Money
Exciting
Learn
Raising – $4-20M
Advantages
IPO – 300 shareholders on the register
RTO – existing shareholders
RTO – seed capital gets existing shares. Takes around 6 months
IPO – lose the $150ish K in the seed. Takes around 3 months.
An RTO is NOT an exit
All shareholders in the vendor can’t sell for 2 years. You usually won’t get cash back as a founder, usually equity. Best to base this on reaching milestones.
Be very careful about the directors selling shares – it will attract media attention
You want the cash/benefits of being a public company. You won’t remain a nimble startup
After an RTO: directors have around 12 months to execute
RTOs are unusual overseas – especially the USA. In Aus there’s a lack of money and education, plus there’s a higher share holding rate. Mining tends to be creative in how they raise money. In Perth there’s a history of people making money going from mining – tech – mining – etc.
IPOs are making a comeback but there’s plenty of mining shell companies and they are getting cheaper. It’s a great time given the mining slowdown.
Wanna build an app?
Global Startup Funding Over Time
Build Geos and Collectstatic
was originally using these buildpacks:
https://github.com/GramercyStudios/heroku-geo-buildpack.git#1.1
https://github.com/heroku/heroku-buildpack-python.git#v40
got this error when i pushed: Collectstatic configuration error. To debug, run …..
when i ran: heroku run …. collectstatic everything was fine!!!
so i had to patch the python buildpack: https://github.com/mattharley/heroku-buildpack-python/commit/807ac1344b01daa8ccc5da0774adeb55fae3b6f5
then i got when i pushed:
—–> Preparing static assets Traceback (most recent call last):
….
django.core.exceptions.ImproperlyConfigured: Could not import user-defined GEOMETRY_BACKEND “geos”.
so i found a newer fork of heroku-geo-buildpack which had two newer commit to fix everything:https://github.com/Tekco/heroku-geo-buildpack/commits/master
Thanks
To this stack overflow post Heroku/Django: Could not import user-defined GEOMETRY_BACKEND “geos”
Your Song – Elton John
An acoustic cover version of Elton John’s Your Song for the first dance of a wedding