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by ebloch 16y ago
Wow - thank you for the Flowtown love #humbling
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What Startups Can Learn From Pivotal Labs(ethanbloch.com)
4 points by ebloch 16y ago|0 comments
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by ebloch 17y ago
Oh cool, tell him Ethan from Flowtown says hi!
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by ebloch 17y ago
Christoff? actually it's a full stack prototype on rails...
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by ebloch 17y ago
We missed the memo :(
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by ebloch 17y ago
Thanks man! They're out there, just need to find them :-)
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by ebloch 17y ago
Ah, ok, totally my bad. I had the wrong context around "trick" I thought you were referring to our business and not a potential method we used to uncover social data. On an totally unrelated note Cassie says "Hi" - I was at her place for on
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by ebloch 17y ago
Yes, if you search an email address in Flowtown the email and the results we discover are stored in your account.
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by ebloch 17y ago
I'm not sure "trick" is a fair assessment, why do you think it's a trick? We don't scrape Facebook for data, but use a variety of data providers for most of our social information.
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by ebloch 17y ago
Thank you for the love Matt ;-) Businesses that care about their customers / users / clients are the ones that will win in 2010 and beyond. I want to be apart of this future and it's the basis for why @danmartell and I founded Flowtown.
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by ebloch 17y ago
Being completely bootstrapped we've been focused on revenue since day 1 and our "trick" of turning emails into social profiles is our minimum monetizable product. The current iteration of Flowtown is nowhere close to our final vision: helpi
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Customer Development Past Present Future - Steve Blank(slideshare.net)
7 points by ebloch 17y ago|1 comments
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by ebloch 17y ago
#awesome
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by ebloch 17y ago
Well put. I completely agree. This is something I've previously spent a good deal of time thinking about.
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by ebloch 17y ago
Customer development :)
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"We don't really practice agile development nor CD" - Mint.com(groups.google.com)
145 points by ebloch 17y ago|39 comments
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by ebloch 17y ago
Awesome case study. Totally what we did with our new pivot (same market B2C Customers - Saas), that is now in the works (didn't do this first time around, and paid for it). Only difference, we told the customer that these were just high fi