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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
This seems like a fairly easy idea to test without any capital investment but a bike and a landing page. 1. Throw up landing page explaining service 2. Have people put in orders via email or form submission 3. Ride bike to grocery and deliv
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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
Exactly my point actually. You work in an industry, might even have a cozy corporate job and great benefits. You're on a solid career trajectory. Leaving that to start a company rarely makes financial sense. But most people aren't
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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
Analysis like this is interesting because it assesses entrepreneurship like a career choice. Most entrepreneurs arise out of an idea. They aren't sitting on HN dreaming of becoming an entrepreneur(not that there is anything wrong with
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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
"Assuming they have some kind of beta, do whatever it takes to figure out sales by yourself....After YC, we brought on a VP of Sales, but he couldn’t sell the product." I agree, the founding team should be intimately involved with
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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
"Something is only worth what others are willing to pay for it."
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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
Did you actually build this? Please post link if so!
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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
A good way to check is using the "Ad preview and diagnosis" tool in Adwords. You can set the location and see if your ad comes up. It's also a good way to look at raw search results (before google factors in your personal bro
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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
Size of business really isn't important, life time value of a customer is really the primary metric when evaluating whether or not a paid channel will work for your business. If you can convert a lead profitably then it makes sense to
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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
When I saw the title my initial thought was, "here we go, another person complaining about Adwords who probably just doesn't have the time to fully understand the intricacies of the platform." But this was a legit bug! Google
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Ask HN: Anyone Building Something Geared Towards Senior Care Market?
1 points by rcarrigan87 12y ago|0 comments
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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
Built this as a philanthropic/learning project for our small home health company. Have a lot of additional ideas to help families navigate the incredibly complex senior care market. Feedback welcome!
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Show HN: Tool helps elderly determine costs of care and ways to pay(remainathomeseniorcare.com)
2 points by rcarrigan87 12y ago|1 comments
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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
sure rcarrigan87 at gmail. Drop me a line and we can chat.
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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
Very true, people generally take their health for granted until they experience an adverse event. Expecting people to take it upon themselves to handle their own medical records is wishful. Large doctor practices sometimes have 2 or even 3
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by rcarrigan87 12y ago
This service definitely has merit and I love you guys just putting it up right away rather than building out a full-site. A lot of founders underestimate the importance of sales people early on. Suster has a couple of good pieces about star
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by rcarrigan87 13y ago
Really great advice. All of the points made in this article can be distilled into one maxim - LISTEN. If you actually listen to your customer instead of trying to "sell" your product the conversation will naturally lead into discu
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by rcarrigan87 13y ago
Here is the article I believe you're referring to. Really enjoyed it as well. The slant of Rolling Stone's "journalism" makes me worry though. Any article where while reading you get progressively more angry is most like
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by rcarrigan87 13y ago
The real tragedy is how many brilliant and motivated people end up in finance nowadays and how the industry overall continues to grow into an ever greater portion of the US economy. I'm not belittling the role of finance in an advanced
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by rcarrigan87 14y ago
Great post. I wasn't aware some people had such an aversion to phone conversations. As for the argument email is more efficient, I don't buy it. Both email and phone are tools that can become highly efficient or huge time wasters dependent
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by rcarrigan87 14y ago
This is so true. Just last week I was struggling with writing a press release and couldn't get started. While staring at my screen an email came through from an old friend asking what the scoop was on my new project. I immediately dove into