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All the advice in the article sounds very generic to me. Standard startup fairytale. I wonder where all the upvotes are coming from
by baxtr 10y ago
All the advice in the article sounds very generic to me. Standard startup fairytale. I wonder where all the upvotes are coming from
- exogeny 10y agoBlueshirt associates at Firstround, aka the Yale rowing team.
- mifeng 10y agoHave you tried selling a new, unproven product to an entrenched industry like construction? I have, and it's much harder than refactoring spaghetti code or learning Haskell. >To bring them into the fold, the team started running superintendent “Ask Me Anything (AMA)” sessions at the office, where the two goals were to celebrate them as experts in the field, and to learn as much as possible about their lives, work and problems.... During these events, the superintendents got to know individuals at PlanGrid too, and walked away bigger evangelists than they were before. I haven't seen this done before, and it's a great idea.
- rhizome 10y agoIt sounded to me like one-person focus groups, AKA interrogation (with donuts).