nedwin

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by nedwin 6y ago
You raise a good point, and it's a tricky thing to solve for. Currently you have a couple of options. You could use a user testing product like UserTesting.com, but here you'll find professional participants - mostly college stude
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by nedwin 6y ago
Ha, awesome. It really is painful. We don't have a newsletter yet but we do include "voice of the customer" in our advisor updates.
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Launch HN: Great Question (YC W21) – Customer research tools for software teams
90 points by nedwin 6y ago|21 comments
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by nedwin 6y ago
Do you think they bought it to develop and just never got around to it? Or as an investment, something to sell again in the future?
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by nedwin 7y ago
Why are they notifying folks via mail instead of good old fashioned email? Haven't got a letter yet but would be super easy for me to check my inbox...
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From Indie to Acquisition: Insomnia Acquired by Kong(schier.co)
4 points by nedwin 7y ago|0 comments
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by nedwin 7y ago
Which is exactly what's happening.
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by nedwin 7y ago
Saurav - love the category and what you're building, and I'm an active practitioner doing 1-2 calls per month. Any way you'd consider remote, or plans to open an SF office?
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by nedwin 7y ago
SEEKING WORK - San Francisco / Remote I'm an experienced entrepreneur (2 exits, several failures) and product manager (most recently Director of Product @ GoDaddy), looking for project based work. I've had the most impact wit
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by nedwin 7y ago
Location: San Francisco Remote: Yes, though local preferred Willing to relocate: NYC possible Skills: Product management, UX design, user research, business development, corporate development, marketing Email: dwyer.ed@gmail.com Linkedin: l
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by nedwin 7y ago
Pretty incredible if you consider that during that time he started another company, raised VC for it, shut it down, then worked at Twitter. He's had a whole different life while this has been slowing building in the background.
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by nedwin 7y ago
You would be amazed at the types of software large companies pay for >$100k a year to solve narrow business problems.
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by nedwin 8y ago
This happened to me and was incredibly frustrating. Figured I was just a moron, but perhaps not.
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by nedwin 8y ago
Got any data to back that up? My anecdotal understanding was that HotelTonight was doing hundreds of millions of dollars in revenue. Some component of that $130m may have been secondary stock sale. I don't think we have enough data to
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by nedwin 8y ago
Two scenarios but both related to having kids. My brother in law works at Deloitte in Australia and is taking Fridays off for most of the rest of the year using his paternity leave. Sounded like they were pretty supportive but may have to k
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by nedwin 8y ago
Keen to hear the long story. Any articles you recommend as someone in the know?
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by nedwin 8y ago
Tips are taxable. You could probably get away with shortchanging the IRS where tips were all cash but with cash declining on a value + volume perspective I think those days will be behind us soon enough.
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by nedwin 8y ago
Assuming the price will come down I think about package delivery implications. How do I get my Amazon or Uber Eats deliveries in 10 years time? Do I still go to the front door of my building, or does it arrive at my front door or even right
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by nedwin 8y ago
"would make it possible for teachers, waiters, bus drivers, waiters, grocery cashiers to live affordably in the city." Plus a broader tax base vs relying on Prop 13 property taxes.
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by nedwin 8y ago
Hey shpigford - curious how you made a living during this time? Was it via these apps/projects/businesses? Freelancing? Day job? And kudos again. Great list.
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by nedwin 8y ago
I can imagine they're difficult to enforce.
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by nedwin 8y ago
On submission of my email it redirected me to an error page. Can't remember what it said, only that it was an unstyled html page with one line of error text. Just tried again and works now.
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by nedwin 8y ago
Buying the company can sometimes be buying certain liabilities they don't want to deal with.
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by nedwin 8y ago
It's dropped to around $3m in Australia with some limitations. $10m I believe for the full license.
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by nedwin 8y ago
Heads up your beta signup form is broken
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by nedwin 8y ago
Location was two of their main problems. High rents and limited food options (so they went into burgers) and the high rent locations they took in suburban malls often came with contracts which explicitly stated they couldn't sell burge
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by nedwin 8y ago
Are there any companies in the Bay Area that have private offices for the rank and file? I've heard of one older section of the Apple campus (pre alien spacecraft) where you can have your own space with a door etc but that's about
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by nedwin 8y ago
The stat I heard was that a bike is likely to be used 1-2 times per day by a user, whereas the same user will use a scooter 3-4 times per day. So in this scenario you might see someone ride the bike from their apartment downtown, but during
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by nedwin 8y ago
Can you imagine if you put every public infrastructure project to a vote?
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by nedwin 8y ago
I'd pay a designer for retainer. We have a designer we work with at the moment who is great and I have ongoing needs. Woudl be easier to send bits and pieces as we need them instead of batching.

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