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How we built a successful wearable device company with minimal funding and no VC(pavlok.com)
3 points by maneesh 9y ago|0 comments
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by maneesh 9y ago
That's what they said about solar energy in general 10 years ago.
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by maneesh 9y ago
I do. I'm fortunate to have started a company that 1)helps solve a problem in my own life and 2) is able to help others. I invented Pavlok ( http://pavlok.com ) to help me quit wasting time online, and quickly found that ele
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by maneesh 9y ago
gwern! Are you the same from gwern.net? I think this article made clear that Fortune 500 CEOs are getting paid a lot --- more than in the past. For example, "So while boards are still willing to dole out huge golden parachutes to C.E.O
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by maneesh 9y ago
Why barely significant?.02 p value is pretty high
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Wow this is really cool
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The only difference is Jobs and Cook
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pretty sure he was being sarcastic
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It made me enjoy it more, and spend more time on the page.
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Yea
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This is one of the most common use cases for users of our wearable device, Pavlok. Adding a zap when noticing negative emotion kicks you out of automatic limbic system mode, and into human awareness/prefrontal cortex mode. Here are a
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Pavlok 2's AI wants to help you change your morning routine(wareable.com)
2 points by maneesh 9y ago|0 comments
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society is notoriously bad at doing anything collectively
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you exited right before he started talking about causual (non-correlative/observational) studies
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Have you ever heard of Charles H. Duell? He was the Commissioner of US patent office in 1899. Mr. Deull's most famous attributed utterance is that "everything that can be invented has been invented."
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Just wait like 3-6 months and they will release this feature
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Pavlok can do this! It's a wearable that vibrates, beeps, and can release electric stimuli. It also has motion detection to know if you're out of bed (depending on alarm, you can turn it off only by doing jumping jacks). http:&#x
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how is it besides the point? It feels like your whole point...
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a life in fear of thinking/writing what I want is not a life I want to live
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I did it with Pavlok, which is a wearable device for waking up early and changing habits. The first 100 was done through writing blog posts, getting email subscribers. When we were ready with a basic prototype, we did a webinar presentation
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by maneesh 10y ago
I think so
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The Wayback Machine: http://web.archive.org It's been backing up the internet for over a decade
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I've been waiting for the day i can order a drink without waiting in a smashed line with 300 people
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hehe i think you can engineer a solution for addiction
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do you mean 'the tree of liberty must be refreshed from time to time with the blood of patriots and tyrants'
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Neither did gladiators, usually. http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-... "Historians have estimated that somewhere between one in five or one in 10 bouts left one of its participants d
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by maneesh 10y ago
http://www.history.com/news/history-lists/10-things-you-may-... #1 talks about how free vs slave gladiators changing over time. Most interesting to me was #3, where it talks about how most were not killed but woun
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I run a company called Pavlok and I'm curious about your company :)
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Interesting. I've run two campaigns. The first we spent 5k on the video, and did 280k. The second campaign, we spent 2k on, and did 343k. I would say the video was negligible --- but the email list, marketing, product dev, and promos w
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How We Built a Successful Hardware Wearable Device with Minimal Funding, No VC(blog.pavlok.com)
1 points by maneesh 10y ago|0 comments

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