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Challenge HN: Your company's purpose in a single declarative sentence
Jim Goetz of Sequoia Capital says only 1 in 15 entrepreneurs can declare their company's purpose in a single sentence. He goes farther to say "if you can get past that challenge, we are very interested in your company."
I'll go first:
Stormpulse amplifies nature's signals.
- wensing 16y agoOther examples: Cisco networks networks. Google organizes the world's information.
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- coryl 16y agowensing, I can't say I like the sentence you came up with. Here's why: I have no context or idea about what stormpulse is, it could be networking tools, software, web app, whatever (which is what I thought it was). Thus, "amplifying nature's signals" makes no sense to me until I have a full context of what your company does. I thought the goal of having a single sentence was exactly that, to share what you do in few words. Shouldn't you be more literal in what you do? Ie. Stormpulse tracks storms.
- wensing 16y agoAgreed and understood (and upvoted). It was a first draft. I think what I've learned by going through this one round already is that you have to have at least one concrete word. I don't know if "tracks storms" is it though. People track storms driving around in SUV's in the midwest during tornado season. I think the element "tracks storms" is missing is that it doesn't smack of any ambition. Microsoft's "a computer on every desktop" and Google's "organizing the world's information" do.
- wensing 16y agoLatest version: "Stormpulse delivers high-fidelity weather intelligence."
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