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by collin128 6y ago
Check out Ash Maurya's blog post the 10X product launch. From memory and possibly a few other thought leaders it looks a little bit like this: 1. Conduct customer development interviews where you interview potential users and don'
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by collin128 6y ago
This comment brings me back to XP
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by collin128 6y ago
I did 80's (over 5 days) for an extended period of time twice and you definitely adjust. Looking back, the quality of work was definitely diminished. It didn't impact me too greatly in the first because it was a sales role primari
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by collin128 6y ago
Not an engineer but I used to sell generators. I believe constant rpm eng/alternator is pretty common practice. From memory and a quick Google search, 1800 rpm produces 60hz and 1500 produces 50hz in newer alternators. I'm unfami
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by collin128 6y ago
Here's a different angle for you. Most of these dev agencies total revenue size is naturally capped at the networks of the founders and referrals from previous clients. I've seen anywhere from $1m - $10m. Source - people turn to m
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by collin128 6y ago
It's not perfect but I've learned to love it. Command + Tab to the minimised app, while still pressing Command, press and hold Option, then release command. That pulls up the minimised app assuming you only have one instance. Here
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by collin128 10y ago
We're very new at hiring but one of our advisors recommended the STAR approach and I feel it's been quite effective. Context: hired 15 people in the last year.
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by collin128 12y ago
My About.me just expired, I think I just found my replacement. Looks good so far.
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by collin128 12y ago
Sales-savvy-co-founder of a bootstrapped company here. Stop. You don't need a sales person, you shouldn't be cold calling, or even selling over the phone. Why? It won't be profitable at your current pricing model ($132&#x2F
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by collin128 12y ago
Pure "cold calling" isn't the only way (but I've been there too) predictablerevenue.com/book changed the course of my first company by helping us fail faster. We built some internal tools to support the 'Cold
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How to Fail Via Perfectionism(tarential.com)
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by collin128 12y ago
The motion carries. Markus will spend more time on HN :) Marcus, you shared a great talk a few months ago at Launch Academy and it really helped me get through a difficult period in starting my company, thank you. I had just bootstrapped m
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by collin128 12y ago
I've seen it in action and it basically works as described. We have a makerbot sitting in the middle of our office and it's awesome.
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by collin128 12y ago
Exactly. A little social engineering by the police could quickly erode the trust in the network. Police could set up a ring of their own accounts, facilitate fake transactions amongst each other, leave positive reviews, take down one large
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by collin128 13y ago
There's a very well funded company in Vancouver (yes, really) that's working on #38 a crunchbase for charities. So far they've linked up all Canadian charities to their platform (US next) and are themselves a registered chari
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by collin128 13y ago
Page doesn't exist anymore.
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by collin128 13y ago
I'd fund you on Kickstarter...
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by collin128 13y ago
page doesn't exist anymore.
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by collin128 13y ago
Congrats on the 40k leads, that's an impressive number given your estimated ACV. Maybe you could share a few secrets with us as to how you've managed to generate so many. Depending on the source and your definition of warm lead yo
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by collin128 13y ago
Testing a new hypothesis after 18 months that resulted in 5 new paying customers AND an exciting new direction for our startup.
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by collin128 13y ago
Todoist
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by collin128 13y ago
It would be great to see a few of these services take the Netflix model and cut out the record labels.
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by collin128 13y ago
Correct. It's a great read. He weaves theory with storytelling better than any other author I've read.
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by collin128 13y ago
And Gastown, right around the corner from GrowLab/Launch Academy.
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by collin128 13y ago
Wow, simply an inspiring tale of a daring man who also happens to be a great musician.
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by collin128 13y ago
techvibes.com (Canada)
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by collin128 13y ago
there was a U of W study posted here a month or two back showing the first human brain to brain interface. Very cool, very creep. There's a video of one guy playing an FPS without a fire button on his mouse, every time he goes to shoot
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by collin128 13y ago
Roofing also plays a part in cooling your home. The old cedar shakes roofing systems are naturally porous and enable ventilation. Unfortunately, most people forget about this when the re-roof with asphalt shingles and rubberized underlays.
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by collin128 13y ago
Wasn't the github repo (front end / open source) taken down because people were posting bug reports for the back end system (closed source & unrelated)?
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by collin128 13y ago
That depends on what and how much your product is. For example - A $10k per month email marketing service will need to go through many different stages of approval and have multiple buying influences involved. On the other hand, A $10 per m

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