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Seems pretty reasonable to me.

If it’s a rough wireframe it can be just that, rough.

If it’s a pixel perfect mockup then it’s a contract for final product IMO.

Of course whether there are that many sets of eyes on it depends how big a co you’re working for!


Pixel perfect? So if a css box-shadow is 11px instead of 12px someone will notice? ...I don't think so

Maybe if the pixel perfect design is diff'd against the final product...


Firstly they're based in London.

(a) is not (entirely) correct. There are literally hundreds of epidemiologists, doctors, NLP engineers, etc that have worked on the models. They are not 20 questions. (I'm definitely not saying its perfect!)

(b) is false. Babylon get paid as any other GP practice does with a fee per patient (on the NHS side). Digital & phone first is GREAT. I've had appointments 7 minutes after opening the app before.

(d) is also not correct, it depends which of their services you use. GP @ Hand is pretty explicit about that being the case - it's the entire value proposition.

If you use the private service (as I do) then you keep your GP (I spoke to mine this morning).

(e) I'm not really sure how this makes it more likely they would have a data leak?

You almost couldn't have got any more of what you said wrong - why the hate?


I actually took out income protection insurance for just this reason. I'm a contractor and so being able to work is very important. My policy pays out after 13 weeks of incapacitation.


Quincy - just out on Netflix about Quincy Jones. What a fascinating life he's had. Watched it with a smile on my face the whole time.


Also worth seeing is another doco made about him years earlier, 'Listen Up: The Lives Of Quincy Jones.'


As mentioned above. We're making money doing it.

I've long wondered why these guys are out there pitching their courses, right now I just believe its a) because they see everyone else doing it b) its easy money but really c) because their businesses are just on auto-pilot.

A lot of these guys have VA's who do a lot of the heavy lifting. I just think they're getting bored and don't want to be forgotten on the conference circuit.


Its no walk in the park, but we do pretty well with it. The thing I always say to people about dropshipping is you're either making no money or lots of money.

Finding a "winning" product is the hard part (0 revenue at this point), now imagine that product has a margin of $10 (after acquisition cost), all you have to do is find just 100 people to buy it to be making $1000 a day. Think about that for a moment, only 100 people from the entirety of Facebook or Instagram to be making $1000 a day profit.

We're small fry compared to some of the guys out there, there are people doing 6 figures a day. Some mid 6 figures.


True - but my god the experiences aren't even in the same league and for me that matters. WeWork is worlds apart.


I guess it depends what you're looking for, everything from price point to frequency of use.

I have a Businessworld Gold membership, and for its price (which is significantly lower than a similar WeWork membership), I can visit any "business lounge" location in the world. I don't use it every day, nor even every week, but when I'm on travel, I have relied on knowing they will have solid internet and a relatively-quiet place to focus.

For the price and my use case of infrequent visits, Regus is fantastic.


I work in a Regus office in CA, and they are constantly having issues. The washers/dryers are always broken, the AC has to be fixed every other week, yesterday they had a plumbing issue and the water was out so no one could get the 'free' coffee let alone use the bathrooms. There's almost always something not working, however most the times it's something relatively minor and overall it's been a decent experience. I imagine WeWork would probably have those things ironed out for a lot more $$. The other thing is you have to pay extra to turn on AC if you want to work at night or on the weekends, which thankfully I haven't had to do with my current company.


alternatively emailhunter.co is great at this, they also have a Chrome extension you can just click when you're on a target domain


Contracted for a bit. When I had enough cash in the bank after a month or two I took a few months off and did some travel.

I couldn't even bear the thought of another startup (while it was always a long term goal) until I took a break. Now I'm back in the grind.

Shit happens unfortunately, its how you pick yourself up and dust yourself up that separates us. Best of luck.


I'm actually looking for a biz dev/sales type person who is familiar with the digital ad sales space/publishing space.

Location doesn't matter right now except would be great if you were in a (relevant) major city. I'm in Bali right now, Malaysia & Singapore next week, Tokyo for the rest of July.

Product is there, currently talking to people about it.

Best to get me on advgeoff@gmail.com (Intentional obfuscation)


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