Vagantem

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First detections of collider neutrinos generate excitement(pubs.aip.org)
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Nio launches smartphone developed to use with its electric cars(reuters.com)
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A man with keys to the Vatican (2018)(nationalgeographic.com)
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Super-precise CRISPR tool enters US clinical trials for first time(nature.com)
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Great framework and points - can see if I can incorporate some of it in the blog. Thanks for reading!
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Thanks for reading Achim! Yes, you bring up some good points - if they are important for your company you can definitely add them as layers to your research. Authenticity - I would categorise this as a "Value pillar" that you can
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by Vagantem 3y ago
I think it depends on how you define trough of sorrow, there are many versions this phenomenon can manifest. In a company I consulted, they had PMF in one segment but the segment was to small to generate quite serious growth - hence they hi
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by Vagantem 3y ago
And to add on to this, here is where I got the image in the blog post :) https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173261
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Yes and no - I think you're thinking of very early stage startups that are still looking for PMF (which indeed is also a big reason why many are in the Trough of Sorrow). But the Trough of Sorrow can come at many points during a compan
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Thanks for reading! And good idea - will see if I can add a few examples to the article. And you're right - it is very much like a tagline. I worked at agencies that preferred the catchy tagline approach even for strategy statements (a
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Hm, thanks for mentioning - will have a look. I added a subscription embed from mailchimp so need to look into why. Feel free to send an email to briefmix[at]gmail[dot]com and I'll add you manually!
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Haha fair enough! I think you're right, I'll update the article with more of a definition of "Trough of Sorrow". This is my first blog project and I find it hard to know how much to include in one post vs. what to split
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Thank you! Working on the "Consumer" module as we speak
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Author here - thank you all for reading. Happy to discuss any points in the article and answer any questions. Also, feel free to check out the other articles in the series!
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How to Escape the Startup Trough of Sorrow(briefmix.com)
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Workers strike at all 3 Detroit automakers for bigger share of industry profits(apnews.com)
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More Chinese Mobile UI Trends (2016)(dangrover.com)
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Tokyo hotel installs flight simulator in room (2019)(techspot.com)
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Tesla decreases the price of FSD beta to $12,000(techcrunch.com)
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How firms like McKinsey develop target audience segments(briefmix.com)
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Why We Don't Shoot Nuclear Waste into Space [video](youtube.com)
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How and why sauces 'break' – or don't [video](youtube.com)
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IoT Hacking and Rickrolling My High School District(whitehoodhacker.net)
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A Database of 5k Historical Cookbooks Is Now Online (2020)(atlasobscura.com)
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Author here - thanks for a thoughtful comment! :) The problem for them was mainly that the agency running their ad account counted "demo requests" as their top metric and mistakingly counted all demo requests that came in as attri
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Author here - absolutely, fully agree! The full story of how this happened did not with with the overarching theme of objectives and KPIs so will have to write up a full story about this later. But the later posts in this article series wil
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Hey there, author here! I fully agree - this is exactly where I want to get to with my article series. This is just the first post, talking about objectives. If you click on the next article, it talks about branding and after that, how to d
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Author here - in my experience, industry trade shows are terrible money drains if you don't have PMF. They can be more expensive than many online ad campaigns! I had a client who spent Over $50K on going to one, with booth and everythi
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Author here - this is 100% true! Always get another domain for your sales emails, warm it up with a email "warmup" service and off you go :)
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by Vagantem 3y ago
Author here. The problem for them was mainly that the agency running their ad account counted "demo requests" as their top metric and mistakingly counted all demo requests that came in as attributed to the marketing spend. So they

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