andreivasiliev

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   by andreivasiliev 8y ago

   Wow! This is awesome. Thank you so much!
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   by andreivasiliev 8y ago

   I recently moved to SF Bay Area. I live in Fremont (cannot afford to live in SF). I don't know any good places to hang out with peer entrepreneurs. I guess I should try harder.
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   by andreivasiliev 8y ago

   I was working on a video conferencing product targeting enterprise users. There were already many solutions on the market when I started: WebEx, BuleJeans, Skype Business, AdobeConnect, etc. As a regular video conference user, one thing bot
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   by andreivasiliev 8y ago

   Although I learned the lesson, I still think I have not spent enough time talking to customers. I am a shy guy and would rather coding than talking to people.
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   by andreivasiliev 8y ago

   Same here. I did not talk to my customers while I was first building my product partly because I worry someone might steal the idea, partly because I felt customers would not understand the benefit until I showed them a finished product. An
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   by andreivasiliev 8y ago

   My startup failed because I was too secretive. I though I had a great idea and always worried that somebody would copy it. I spent 4 years working on my idea only to find out that nobody was interested in what I was doing. Now my mentality