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Writer of #FlashFiction, #ShortStories and a never-finished novel. Spaniel-wrangler. Curmudgeon. Forest dweller. #MDANT She/her/cis rachaeldunlop.com
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Good work the husband!
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Has husband been to Costco? Saw one of these beasts there today. Handsome.
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We need to get Stephanie on here.
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Ah, okay. That’s not the data they’ll be trying to monetise through predictive software, though.
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Not their background financial and sales data, surely? That wouldn’t have been on the website server, would it?
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That £50K was really a token amount. May as well have been £1. It was quick and dirty and not about paying anybody what it was really worth.
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They clearly think they have SOMETHING of value. I bet they still have all the historic data from the Unbound crowdfunding, for example. And whatever had already been cobbled together in the software project. All of that can be pivoted. Whether it’s successful is another matter.
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I think the fact they’ve brought a techbro on to the board of Boundless tends to support my theory.
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To be clear, I don’t think it would have worked for all the reasons you have already laid out, but I think it’s the answer to the question of how they thought they’d make money from it.
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I’m guessing they would say they have the data to back it up if they accurately predict crowdfunding levels and success. Lots of non-tech companies now try this sort of thing with the data they have from their core business. The £1m budget would buy in the tech expertise.
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My son distinguishes between Northern Irish Tayto and Irish Tayto by calling the latter FreeStateO. Only works if you know your Irish political history.
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This is true. Many companies that sell one thing end up monetising the software they developed to do it instead. Ocado, for example, sold their platform far and wide. Amazon makes much more money flogging their proprietary software than selling stuff via that software.
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It’s the classic gambler’s lament: ‘I lost all my money so I stole yours to back this sure thing, I was going to pay you back from my winnings but, and I don’t know how this happened, the horse came in last.’
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At least the truffles can now breathe a sigh of relief.
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Have to say I quite like the spiky thing. Might be Murano glass.
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Spaniels do get their name from having been considered ‘Spanish’ dogs, which makes this joke doubly pleasing. Or less clever. Either or.
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Wild flowers flourishing in my garden where we didn’t mow in May. North East of England.
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I could not love this more.
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‘Videogram’. Let’s bring that back.
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It can be read in several ways, but to me he’s painting the king and queen who are reflected in the mirror at the back, and are standing outside the painting, where the viewer is. Velasquez is looking right at us because he’s painting us (ie we are the king and queen).
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He’s not painting this painting. He’s painting YOU (the person he is painting is standing where you are).
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I do but I realise that makes me a weirdo in many people’s books. I come into contact with elderly and vulnerable people quite regularly - why would I want to accidentally kill them, all for the sake of a few quid and a cotton bud up the nose?
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You won’t lose anything if you clear your cache. You’ll have to log back into things, yes, but nothing will be lost.