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There is a major chicken and egg problem here. As a post-YC company, I know a lot of investors. That means my gmail is valuable to you (since you can pull a bu
by tyre 10y ago
There is a major chicken and egg problem here.
As a post-YC company, I know a lot of investors. That means my gmail is valuable to you (since you can pull a bunch of info) but that your service is not valuable to me.
You need to better incentivize users that have the information that makes your service more valuable. Something like AngelList's ability to verify that an investor invested in a company, plus the ability for founders to anonymously leave reviews of investors that you confirm they've spoken with.
If, going into our next round, I could only access those reviews by connecting my work GMail, then I can see why it may make sense.
Right now, I don't know why I would use this and I think I'm your target market.
- petersimones 10y agoGood thoughts here. Worth noting that Signal doesn't really gain anything from your Gmail data other than the ability to provide you network benefits via the relationship strengths implied by that data. And you don't need to connect your Gmail to use the service. You can sign in with email/password and use all the investor finding tools, which is arguably Signal's primary benefit right now. There isn't a great tool out there to find investors (and similarly, for investors to effectively broadcast what they do and do not want to see). That part isn't chicken and egg. You can use Crunchbase, AngelList, etc., but it's a slog. Signal should keep getting better in that regard.
- basch 10y ago>Signal doesn't really gain anything from your Gmail data other than the ability to provide you network benefits via the relationship strengths implied by that data. Instagram grew because it imported and co-opted twitters social graph. They absolutely benefit from being able to build a 10,000 foot view of the current social landscape.