TTringas

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by TTringas 7y ago
Agree with all of this. Thanks Rosie!
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by TTringas 7y ago
Good feedback. I agree with your first point. I think that outside of Silicon Valley we actually have a crisis of lack of access to early-stage capital for entrepreneurs (and hence the multi-decade decline in new business starts). There are
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by TTringas 7y ago
Hello Hacker News, looking for feedback on how we could expand our "funding for bootstrappers" model to better serve underrepresented founders. Suggestions, comments, critiques, all very much welcome here. Thanks.
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Request for Feedback: an “opportunity fund” for underrepresented founders(earnestcapital.com)
9 points by TTringas 7y ago|8 comments
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by TTringas 12y ago
The merchants needs to have a copy of the Google Maps API on their site and need to follow Google's terms of service in that regard. If they have a ton of traffic they may need to pay for a license.
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by TTringas 12y ago
Not including my time, a few hundred dollars a month for servers and other services (like intercom.io). Gross margin is over 90% which is probably typical for micro-SaaS.
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by TTringas 12y ago
yes, yearly. Thanks, fixed!
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by TTringas 12y ago
Yes, it's an annual subscription the renews each year. Most of the time with SaaS annual billing you are pre-paying for the full year, so if you cancel you don't get a pro-rated refund. Customers are ok with that as long as you&#x
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by TTringas 12y ago
Thanks George!
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by TTringas 12y ago
It's a great point. I struggled with how explicit to be about this. E.g. - do you email all the early adopters and tell them how lucky they are they are on a lower plan? Does that comes across as too sleezy? How do you translate this i
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by TTringas 12y ago
thanks! keep at it.
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by TTringas 12y ago
Answers to this could go on forever but... I think the more important part is to build a subtractive methodology, a way of editing out and whittling down ideas that won't work. Use the James Altucher idea machine strategy and go sit in
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by TTringas 12y ago
Glad you liked it. So there are a million different opinions on this for sure. I particularly like Dan Norris's take on this to start solving a problem that people are already spending some money to solve now. Not necessarily that they
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Storemapper: Bootstrapped to $50k/year in 2 years(tylertringas.com)
434 points by TTringas 12y ago|58 comments
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Start-up Stimulus: I will trade future payments for startup funding now.(tylertringas.com)
3 points by TTringas 15y ago|0 comments