My notes of stuff I typed while listening to this the second time... mostly verbatim questions by PG: GRAPH DATABASE So who uses it? So it's for ___ ? Can y

My notes of stuff I typed while listening to this the second time... mostly verbatim questions by PG: GRAPH DATABASE So who uses it? So it's for ___ ? Can you give me an example, of all the people in the world, who needs you the most right now? Like what problem needs you the most right now? Who has trouble with this problem now? Who wants to do ___ that would otherwise have problems with doing ___ ? Is the ___ (latency) going to be a problem? Is there anyone who has said yes? Is there anyone who wants to use this software? Why do they need you? What's special about you? Are any of these people ready to pay you yet? So they want to pay you because they need the product this much? If they want to pay you, are they paying you? You never know if they are serious until you try to get [their money.] [Money] will really impress investors. It's not so much that they care about the money. They care about money as evidence that people really want what you are building. Who is going to use your ___ in production first? Cuz you won't really know if it's good until they are using it... good in the sense of helping them out. This is going to be a combination of how desperately they need you and how quickly they make decisions. Find out who the users to use you first are and figure out the types of problems they are solving and describe yourself as solving those problems. ----------- VID APPY How do they ____ (hire people now) now? Is the problem that ___ (walk-in's don't scale)? (what is the problem with the current alternative.) So how do you know ___ (what questions to ask)? (the tough part of the new solution that you hope to offer) It's good for the end user too (people applying too.) What's hard about what you're trying to do is ___ (establish a marketplace). Which one is the harder quantity to get? (the retailers or the job applicants?) Is this thing launched yet? Maybe the way you get this started is ___ (go to a big retailer and tell them to tell their applicants to go to this url). --------------- DATA CURIOUS Who needs it? How are they going to use it? (On the fly report generation or prepared reports) What do you think is going to be the most common ____ (query) that people will do? I worry that this won't have a big enough gravity well to stay up in the top of people's heads. This is the sort of thing people would do occasionally and never come back. If someone were to come back over and over, what ____ (queries) would they be doing (or running) over and over? I wonder how many ___ (investors) that into ___ that are going to come back over and over again. I worry that you're not going to be able to find enough (users who will want to use your solution over and over again.) ------------------- TV TECH So how? Where is that going to be most used? Like if you imagine a year from now and you've launched, you're successful and people are using this a lot... everyone who has a business like that can say the biggest single case of people using this is for ___. So what is going to be the biggest single case of people using this? You're going to decide what to show when I click on the stuff. (You're making assumptions on what they want when even they might not know what they want.) What if it's wrong? I would test this on some actual people a lot. See if you can get them to the point where they won't ___ (watch TV) without this. Unless you can make it stick on them, it's not going to stick on other people. You have the underlying technology to do ___. This doesn't have to be how you use it. There could be other ways to use it besides ___ (this thing that every consumer is clicking on). ----------------- FLYITIVITY How do you beat the chicken and egg problem? The way to beat a chicken and egg problem is to find a tiny subset of the market that is small but much more driven than normal. I don't feel like ___ (airports) is the secret because they don't all want to solve this problem. You have to find a subset of people really want to ___ ... enough to want to seek out and try this new thing that they are not already using. What is the worst problem in your life? If this really honestly is one of the biggest problems in your life than maybe you're not the only one. ------------------- LUCKY CHIC What do you do for them once they get to your site? When a typical user shows up on your site, what do they see and what do they do? What is the most common thing users do? What's the biggest driver of traffic? So far the one that they use is the ___ (penny auction)? Can you grow while breaking even? In a given day, how many people use it? Do they return? What's the growth rate like? You should figure out, what are you seeing people do or wanting to do among your existing users that you're not really suited for yet or that no one really gives them. Is there anything?