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by akharris 11y ago
That seems like a pretty good way to start getting relationships with customers. How is it going? What have you learned from seeing how they use your product?
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by akharris 11y ago
Got it - is it growing? How quickly?
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by akharris 11y ago
Starting a new reply thread because we nested too far. I think my biggest fear is the exact thing we just talked about: frequency. Creating long term customer engagement is super hard. I think it's also hard for recruiting cos to build
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by akharris 11y ago
I think you should totally do a ShowHN and product hunt. The first test is to just get it in front of people and see what they do with it and what kind of feedback they have. This won't happen magically or automatically. Good luck!
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by akharris 11y ago
Ok - so you could approach this in a few different ways. Here are two: One way is to try to sell big enterprise contracts to big banks. This is really hard for startups to do, unless you have a product you know they really want, have deep c
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by akharris 11y ago
I think it's hard to say without knowing more. On the one hand, paying in btc probably restricts the number of people willing to use your product by virtue of there being not that many people who have btc accounts. On the other hand, i
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by akharris 11y ago
Hi - funding for hardware is certainly difficult, but there are quite a few investors who do it, and it is easier than it was even six months ago. If I were you, I probably wouldn't determine whether or not I wanted to focus on the com
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by akharris 11y ago
Do you make money per client? Why are you artificially constraining that? Growth != loss of trust reputation if you have a good product that your users trust and want.
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by akharris 11y ago
This is one of the really hard parts about companies focused on hiring - your frequency of use is super low, which makes repeated engagement tough. Content is one way to do it, but this is the kind of thing you'll need to experiment wi
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by akharris 11y ago
What have you done to increase your user base? How have you measured your experiments? What do your users say when you talk to them?
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by akharris 11y ago
Yeah, the capital requirements are painful, as is the entire process behind getting a charter. How are you figuring out what people actually want? What have you built and how have you started getting it into the hands of customers?
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by akharris 11y ago
Hi - I'd love something to fix my posture, so this seems cool. Feel free to ask a question.
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by akharris 11y ago
Hi Bill - How many people are using supertask right now?
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by akharris 11y ago
Sounds cool, Pim - how can we help?
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What have your experiments looked like? How were you measuring them, and at what rate was your revenue growing? What's your current core metric, and what's been happening to it over the last few years?
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by akharris 11y ago
I'm not sure I understand what you're building. Is it a white label life insurance api to allow financial institutions to sell life insurance?
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by akharris 11y ago
Hi - What's the metric that you're looking at for growth?
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by akharris 11y ago
Sounds like you have a great problem. One of the funny things about building products is that you often don't know who your users are going to be until you actually release. This is why we tell companies to launch as fast as possible,
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by akharris 11y ago
I think there's a huge need for an actual new bank that is built on technology. It's one of those obvious big need problem. One of the big problems founders usually run into when doing this, though, is dealing with the mass of reg
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HN Office Hours with Michael Seibel and Aaron Harris
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AnyPerk’s Taro Fukuyama on Finding an Idea That Works(themacro.com)
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by akharris 11y ago
You're right that optimizing for metrics too early is a mistake. I do think, though, that there are good metrics to focus on at the MVP stage. Talking to users is generally a pretty good one.
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by akharris 11y ago
That's a great way to think about it. Guess I could just call this "vanity metrics."
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by akharris 11y ago
I think this is right up to a point. While good leaders take first blame publicly, they do need to figure out the causes internally. There are many times where the fault actually belongs to someone specific. That's really important to
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by akharris 11y ago
That's an interesting point. I hadn't really parsed the difference between the two terms, but there is one. I think it ends up calling for both, depending on the situation.
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by akharris 11y ago
Wish I could claim to have been either deliberate or ironic...but I actually got careless. Thanks for pointing it out!
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by akharris 11y ago
So glad you found the second episode more to your liking! The focus of each episode shifts based on who is on the show and where the story takes us. My guess is that different episodes will resonate with different people. Looking forward to
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by akharris 11y ago
Hey Kaz - fixed!
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Chuck - the problem I'm trying to solve is that there's a mismatch in expectations around the value of options in comp discussions. The options are often a large portion of comp, so that's pretty bad. The pay to perform model
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Stephen Wolfram is livestreaming a Wolfram Language demo(livecoding.tv)
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