Always good to read someone else's story on starting up and making money...

7 Lessons We Learned Going from Zero to $30k/Month in Under a Year

Alex Turnbull

Oct 17, 2013

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After some early wins and epic fails, Groove launched to the public. We’ve come a long way, but not without some hurdles...

In the weeks after Groove’s public launch, we saw our user acquisition numbers grow slowly but steadily. And while any growth is good, slow and steady isn’t always enough when you have mounting bills and a team that depends on you to keep the paychecks coming.

Over the next several months, I learned more than I ever have in such a short period. We tested dozens of strategies and hacks, and explored hundreds of approaches to try and find the “magic bullet” to business growth.

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This is what I need - a window that stops sound but not air

Redesigned Window Stops Sound But Not Air, Say Materials Scientists

Emerging Technology From the arXiv

July 8, 2013

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..the notion of creating a barrier that absorbs sound while allowing the free of passage of air seems, at first thought, entirely impossible....

Noise pollution is one of the bugbears of modern life. The sound of machinery, engines, neighbours and the like can seriously affect our quality of life and that of the other creatures that share this planet.

But insulating against sound is a difficult and expensive business. Soundproofing generally works on the principle of transferring sound from the air into another medium which absorbs and attenuates it.

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