charleshaanel

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by charleshaanel 14y ago
No one cares about your lawnmower (or in this case software). They only care about their grass...
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
It's easy. Here's what I did (after 20 months off) 1. Visited Russian owned Wineries in Mexican wine country (yep they have them - they are amazing) 2. Learned how to Horseback ride 3. Volunteered at an orphanage in Latin America (changed m
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Thank you for posting this. It boggles my mind how people - let me rephrase 'wantrepreneurs' - lambast people who want to actually make a profit. If you don't care to exchange something valuable (an email address) for something worth 10x (t
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Excellent point. There was a HBR article a while back that underscored this point. That the most successful companies (and entrepreneurs) in part took best practices from one industry and applied to their own. One amazing example of this is
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
"Let this be a lesson to you, American voters: when you live in a highly developed ultra modern welfare state like Sweden, with excellent healthcare and many other public benefits, the system is secretly so unstable and broken that the enti
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Far too many developers still believe in he fairy tail that a product will "sell itself" without any effort. Innovation requires development + distribution. First the product is created in the mind of the hacker. Then it's created in the mi
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Mad props for your work...
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Yes but we all know the ad revenue model increasingly delivers low average customer lifetime value. The ad model is the default strategy for people who latch on to Graham's contention "it's easier to make something popular than to make mone
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Subscription revenue model that offers a certainty premium for investors? check Tap into a deep psychological Maslow-style need that potentially hundreds of millions if not billions have (aka the desire to know where we come from, who we ar
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Great attempt. You did what 99% of people don't do - take action. Having said that, did you begin your project with the end in mind. Who is your paying customer(target market) and what is your revenue model?
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
You obviously didn't read the same article that some of us did :S
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Excellent post. Thanks for posting it.
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Sign ups are nice but cash money is the best form of validation. Are you familiar with Steve Blank's work on customer validation?
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Lol. Do you actually know one woman of color in technology? Perhaps you should consider speaking to one (or several) over theories you read in a journal (we all know how objective every single academic paper one reads is). Everyone reading
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Do you live in a vacuum? Is it your contention that this one micro-mini program is preventing anyone who may not be black, native american or latino (or a woman) from getting a job???? Seriously, I need to better understand the nature of yo
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Are you capable of cogent thought? How is this racist or sexist? If you had taken the time to investigate you would have seen that both men and women along with people from different ethnicities support this program. Was it racist or sexist
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
I get frustrated when people call themselves "entrepreneurs" but have taken limited risks or made limited sacrifices. Come to me when you have literally had to make the moral decision between paying yourself more vs. hiring someone else, gi
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Black Girls Code(youtube.com)
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Put another way this is classic "story selling" - wherein you use a captivating story to demonstrate all the points you would in a traditional pitch. Good stuff
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
For scripting I recommend these books: 1) Words that Sell 2) Cashvertizing I have produced opt in rates north of 51% and actual front end sales conversion rates of 5% percent using those resources to help with building a script
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
How big is this market? Do you have a clear value proposition which will show bands (who are probably strapped for cash) how spending money on the jackets (which look like an interesting concept), is going to translate to more sales? What a
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Competition and Cooperation in the Bundled Software Market(opim.wharton.upenn.edu)
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Why not congratulate OP for his initiative. The fact that som many people are responding so positively gives new members of the community (like myself) a wonderful impression of how helpful people are here. Look how many people are pitching
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
The option of being able to donate one's commission is a nice USP. Many people would feel 'guilty' sending links for which they are monetarily compensated. So being able to send a referral link saying, "hey check out xyz, it's cool. And if
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
How is that discussion room?
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Ask HN: Any Skype groups/rooms where startup founders network?
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by charleshaanel 14y ago
Two Ideas: 1) Run some paid advertising to get you in front of potential buyers. Who would be the ideal customer (in this case 'ideal buyer') for this asset? The benefit of a marketplace is that you find people who are ALREADY looking t