Yesterday Codility crew attended OpenCoffee Prague, MiniSeedcamp edition. Together with fellow entrepreneurs from AdTaily and Brainient we shared some insights about expanding from CEE to the international level and how taking part in Seedcamp can speed it up.
The Smarta 100 is the ultimate business accolade, recognizing the UK’s smartest small businesses. Smarta.com has uncovered remarkable companies who have gone the extra mile to differentiate themselves from the market or found clever ways to compete, from their marketing plan to their ethical stance. The result is a fascinating insight into the unique business ideas that are thriving in the current economic climate. The finalists proved to the judges that they have what it takes to run a successful venture, from spotting a new opportunity to making it a reality. And the high-profile panel were delighted to see that ambitious people are saving hard and raising finances to turn their ideas into flourishing businesses. Deborah Meaden commented: Smarta.com founder Sháá Wasmund said: The full results and details of the winning companies can be found at smarta.com/smarta100.
Codility has been chosen by a judging panel including Deborah Meaden and other leading entrepreneurs such as Bebo Founder Michael Birch as a winner of Smarta.com’s inaugural ‘Smarta 100’.“Discovering great new businesses is a passion of mine as is encouraging businesses to think and work better. The Smarta 100 does both of these things – and celebrates the best of British business at the same time. I was delighted to see ambitious people saving hard and raising finances to turn their ideas into flourishing businesses”
“Socially conscious, disruptive businesses that are not afraid to challenge the status quo are being set up in the four corners of the country. I founded Smarta to make sure these enterprises are supported at any stage of development. The results speak for themselves – the Smarta 100 list is a collection of remarkable success stories.”
About Smarta.com. The brain-child of entrepreneur Sháá Wasmund, Smarta.com is a free online business resource for small business owners. Supported by renowned entrepreneurs Theo Paphitis, Deborah Meaden and Michael Birch, Smarta.com provides advice and business tools as wells as a space where business owners can network and support each other. Smarta has more than 1,000 guides, case studies and video interviews in which leading UK entrepreneurs share their experience and knowledge. Visit www.smarta.com to learn more.
As you already know (Codility heading for US) Codility is on the business development tour in US. You can follow our regular updates on Twitter (@codility) and on OnTheRoad's TripBook (http://codility.ontheroad.to/). Feel free to approach us :)!
User freespace tweets, referring to formulation of our free demo task:
@Codility your equivalent point definition is broken. The left hand sum is from i=0 to k-1, and you have k=0 is a valid solution... [link]Having worked a lot on ACM problems, we would have not written this blog post, if not the last sentence, thanks for getting us going! :-) The author of the tweet refers to this expression:
... therefore, the left hand sum is from 0 to -1, and is invalid. You guys can learn a thing or two from reading ACM problems [link]
which is another way of writing this summation:
He/she claims that the above expression is ill-defined for k=0. Let's look into The Holy Scripture, chapter 1.2.3 Sums and Products, verse 1:
Codility is heading for US! Both coasts! We plan to visit New York City, Silicon Valley and Boston, come to meet us at startup2startup or get in touch by e-mail, so that we can book time to meet you in person. Be quick, some slots already taken! (See below.)
Joel Spolsky and Jeff Atwood discuss Codility in Issue #79 of StackOverflow podcast series. Tune in at 01:07:30 or have a glimpse at the transcript.
Hacker News, a discussion board of Y Combinator, held a great discussion on Codility yesterday, go and see for yourself! Big thanks to the Hacker News community for criticism, ideas and bug reports, especially we are indebted to kbob, jkkramer and meilto!
