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by goldvine 13y ago
Absolutely, conferences would be great places to break the ice. But if you've ever been to a tech conf. you know that most of the people in the room are terrified of talking to others. I was for a while and still am. Where I've be
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by goldvine 13y ago
It's really mind-blowing. Whenever I talk to people outside of the industry...their first comments are: 1. Won't people steal your idea 2. Why are your competitors talking to you on the phone etc. I think the Internet is just so b
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by goldvine 13y ago
It's liberating once you realize they are actual human people who often want to help - as long as they feel that their help won't be wasted...
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by goldvine 13y ago
Thank you!
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You Can Meet Your Heroes(medium.com)
15 points by goldvine 13y ago|12 comments
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by goldvine 13y ago
You're always there to make me feel fat when I stop being healthy ;-)
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by goldvine 13y ago
thanks guys
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Durnken Lnauch Avdcie — Huors bferoe Our Frist Luanch(medium.com)
8 points by goldvine 13y ago|7 comments
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by goldvine 13y ago
How did you discover the mastermind group, Brennan? - Matt Goldman
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by goldvine 13y ago
I love this bit: "We set unrealistic goals all the time. But where are we getting these expectations in the first place? Often we choose our goals as a result of looking to the outside at someone else and what they’ve achieved, not inw
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Zen for Non-Hippies: How I Optimize for Happiness at Work(medium.com)
1 points by goldvine 13y ago|2 comments
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by goldvine 13y ago
We worked together at an agency for 2 years prior, she was Project Manager, I was a developer. That's actually where we met. When it came time to decide whether or not we should work together, we weren't really worried about it. I
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by goldvine 13y ago
There has actually been a ton of overlap code-wise. Also, we wanted to be able to cross-promote the products which has worked incredibly well, building both audiences simultaneously. Most of our focus is on Minimalytics, but HookFeed is mov
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by goldvine 13y ago
"Keep showing up" is huge. But it's not equivalent to luck. Many people here are talking about how most startups succeed due to luck, and I don't think that is true. We've been working on product for a very long tim
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by goldvine 13y ago
Exactly, that is the best time to make a teaser page. And frankly, most pages built that early in the process are awful considering all the unknowns.
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by goldvine 13y ago
I've bought eBooks/read valuable insight from tons of people with "questionable" success. That doesn't make the information not useful/inspiring. Most of what I do, I learned from other people who chose to shar
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by goldvine 13y ago
not very many at all, the tweets that drove traffic were not from me. They were from a couple other people that did have a following in the thousands. My follower count has grown since then.
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by goldvine 13y ago
On the Medium blog page? Or on Minimalytics/HookFeed/Small HQ sites? Thanks!
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by goldvine 13y ago
Minimalytics took about 2 weeks, I think HookFeed was 5-6 weeks.
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by goldvine 13y ago
Haha interesting
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by goldvine 13y ago
Based on the emails and avatars tied to them, very few (if any) are bots. We've of course had a random a@a.com and a this.site.is@gay.com but beyond that most are legitimate. And re: YouTube...I watch plenty of YouTube videos by people
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by goldvine 13y ago
Very true, but wouldn't you rather have 10,000 eyes on your product than 100, even if most won't convert. We will likely convert single digits to paying customers. That doesn't mean we won't work our butts off to get the
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by goldvine 13y ago
See my reply just above :-) the book will be much more detailed about our process. Not so much re: marketing because we really haven't done much at all.
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by goldvine 13y ago
I tweeted at Drew Wilson and Josh Long who wrote the Execute book. I had no prior relationship with them, and they were kind enough to retweet, after I let them know how the book inspired me. This triggered a lot of traffic from designers,
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by goldvine 13y ago
Absolutely, some well-timed retweets can go a surprisingly long way. Especially if backed by the promise of a well-designed, potentially useful product that is relevant to someone/group of people. My Twitter is public, dig around :-) I
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by goldvine 13y ago
That certainly was an option, to wait. But since it is just the two of us, and I'm the only one who can work on backend code, Joelle has some open time. She is doing much of the early work on the book while I push product (currently fo
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by goldvine 13y ago
Sorry :-( As for traffic, we initially got retweeted a couple times by people with a few thousand followers in the design space. Both products also were on news.layervault.com as a result for some time, as well as BetaList a bit later on. O
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by goldvine 13y ago
I think it's great, but it's tough for people who are pre-launch. Animated videos are expensive, and actual screenshot-backed videos become outdated quickly due to changing screens/product vision. I think a bit of jQuery and
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by goldvine 13y ago
Mind if I ask what made you think we were affiliated?
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by goldvine 13y ago
I'm not a part of 30x500. Is that what you meant?

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