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by canadapups 8y ago
I built CanadaPups.com. At first I started to learn by reading Computer Science 101 textbooks. The intro MIT textbook is in python and has more depth than other CS101 books. (Guttag, John. Introduction to Computation and Programming Using
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by canadapups 8y ago
There are a couple definitions of "marketing". Most people's definition of "marketing" is "advertising". However, in business school, "marketing" is knowing product fit even before building any
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by canadapups 8y ago
There may be survivorship bias because his slower, low-cost strategy is a good way to survive! The longer he survives, the greater chance his product takes off. If you go guns blazing, you effectively put death in the business plan and suc
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by canadapups 8y ago
I guess, but he's doing a note-taking app. I think that niche is as old as Detroit.
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by canadapups 8y ago
I run an online business with my wife. Her background is in marketing. When I explained the MVP idea to her, she thought it was the dumbest idea ever. In her eyes spending expensive marketing dollars to bring people to see anything but a
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by canadapups 8y ago
I learnt to code and started my online business in my 30s because it's fun. Age shouldn't stop anyone from fun.
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by canadapups 8y ago
I agree. You can force diversity in gender and race (eg. require 1 woman on your board), but they can all still think the same. When I asked a few tech friends about launching my business, it was this: create a minimum viable product (MVP),
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by canadapups 8y ago
No, I didn't mean smart people can't pick up business. I meant you would assume smart people know business as common sense, but they don't necessarily do. You saying a combination of 2 books would exceed a entire MBA curricul
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by canadapups 8y ago
Yes, this what I meant: "OP may have assumed that since his knowledge is comparatively trivial for STEM people to learn, the knowledge might be widespread among what he thinks of as smart people, and was surprised when this valuable kn
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by canadapups 8y ago
Come on... most MBA programs are 2 years of full time study. You really going to compare "just Google it" or "digesting some key books like The Mom Test" to a MBA program? To push the logic further, what if it was a Har
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by canadapups 8y ago
I never said it can't be learnt. Business knowledge can be learnt through study and experience. For example, taking a MBA degree is one way. Many people who spent lots of time learning and building compilers haven't put the tim
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by canadapups 8y ago
I have an undergrad finance degree + finance career. I also run a website I built my self as a side project (see profile if curious). For a while after learning to code, I thought my business degree was useless. My coding skills felt so emp
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by canadapups 8y ago
For my side project website (see my profile), I started to implement PayPal and got seriously confused with the documentation and process (I'm not a professional developer). Mid-process I actually didn't even know if I was even d
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by canadapups 8y ago
I needed traffic from the buy-side and sell-side. On the sell side (breeders), I can just google for new customers! Many dog breeders have their own websites. I search for dog breeders and then contact them through their website (either t
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by canadapups 8y ago
I have a finance career, plus I built CanadaPups.com. Very little maintenance and costs, but lots of fun to tinker and improve it as a hobby. Just letting it grow on its own as I'm kinda out of ideas of how to kick it up a notch - sug
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by canadapups 8y ago
The article title “people like you more than you know” might actually apply to you... From reading your past couple comments you might be perceiving that people are always trying to one-up you when that may not be their intention.
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by canadapups 8y ago
My wife is a dog breeder. My anecdotal sample size is getting close to the sample size of the study. In one litter you will get such a large range of personalities even with same parents and being raised the same. And then there’s such a bi
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by canadapups 8y ago
My wife is a dog breeder in Canada. She was starting to get worried about her dependence on Kijiji as the only site to advertise her puppy litters. Kijiji is a de facto monopoly due to network effects and they have slowly been increasing