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My hypothesis is it has to do with the name chosen for it. If it had a more 'consumer-friendly' name it would be more widely known. Something like 'Internet Freedom' or 'Free Internet' would have more appeal...
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Be careful with asking hypothetical questions like this. It would be better to phrase this question as 'which business services do you currently pay $100/mo (or more) for, and why?' It's too easy for someone to say they
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I'm not an accountant, but work in an incubator where a well-known accounting firm came in and presented on this to a bunch of software startups. Their recommendation was to take advantage of this, even if you're not doing anythin
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by tchock23 10y ago
Part of the problem 'net neutrality' faces is its name. The average US citizen has no idea what 'net neutrality' means when they hear it, and can't be bothered to learn about it. If it had been branded 'interne
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by tchock23 10y ago
The author lost me when it left out the mention of Ancel Keys cherry picking data to support his hypothesis that fat is bad, and then noting off-hand that he lived to be 100 (somehow validating his hypothesis?) Poorly written article that f
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by tchock23 10y ago
Take any answer to a question phrased as "would you do XYZ" as essentially worthless. It's all reported behavior and can/will differ vastly from actual behavior - especially in regards to willingness to pay. Instead focu
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While I agree this is an excellent form of validation (perhaps the ONLY form of validation), this has to be done with extreme precaution. Most customer discovery interviews are agreed to under the guise of "sure, I'll share some o
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I'm torn on whether this 'conventional wisdom' is any good. Founders are the most biased when it comes to customer discovery interviews. I have listened in on quite a few customer discovery conversations where founders took t
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Do you support removing non-profit status from churches to formalize this?
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As the article notes, eating less than you burn is effective for a while until the body works to get back up to a previous set point to maintain homeostasis. An excellent book on this topic is The Obesity Code by Dr Jason Fung
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by tchock23 10y ago
If you don't have the money for rift or vive, PSVR is a solid choice. Doesn't have quite the content (yet), but what is there is high quality. The form factor is much more comfortable than the rift or vive...
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I would highly recommend trying it yourself first. If you hire an agency you won't know how to guide them appropriately, and they'll end up applying tactics that may not work for your product/market. I advise a few startups t
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The number of potentially successful businesses that can be built with Wordpress + Plugins (+ maybe Zapier) is crazy. I have a few SaaS products out in the wild and find myself longing for the days where I just had to worry about maintainin
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by tchock23 10y ago
HN helps me converse with the contract developers I work with. I use it as a way to keep up with what is new in the development world to understand when/how to apply it to the projects I'm working on. Admittedly, it is hard for me
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by tchock23 10y ago
How long were your demos? Have you tried VR for an extended period of time (1+ hours without a break)? The limitations you mention are absolutely issues, but they start to fade away and the feeling of immersion rises the longer you are in i
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Here is a little hack around that to not put people on the defensive. Instead of asking "Why," say "For what reasons." It makes people less defensive. (Source: Was a qualitative market researcher for 10 years, learned th
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This post makes no sense to me. The goal of talking to users is not to sell them something. The goal is to better understand their needs/attitudes/pain points/etc. so that you can improve your products and services. That even
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by tchock23 10y ago
[meta] The first part of the comment was about themselves, but the second part was a suggestion to improve an app which is absolutely a positive contribution to the conversion.
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Somewhat related, but in my experience advising hundreds of small businesses over the past few years the worst (performing) are the ones that blame excessive regulation and government tyranny as a reason for their lack of progress. It'
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Many of the issues you mention are solved by carefully defining the scope and what is included for the price. You typically don't productize a service until you have done a number of similar projects on a hourly basis and truly underst
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The issue with in-person customer interviews done by the founders themselves is that VERY few people will be honest enough with the founders to tell them their idea sucks. While there is obviously value in in-person interactions, I would st
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by tchock23 11y ago
Commitment to co-founders is great, but commitment to your idea is a double-edged sword. It can lead to teams less willing to pivot because they're so committed to the concept they applied with. (Source: Been on the teaching team of a
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by tchock23 11y ago
Great concept! Regardless of who you select to conduct the study, I'd like to volunteer the use of my software (FocusGroupIt - focusgroupit.com) as a way to capture qualitative feedback from study participants on an ongoing basis. That
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It's a $250M business globally according to a research firm that focuses on the eSports industry: http://www.newzoo.com/insights/esports-in-2015-engagement-gr... That's tiny. If you took a pitch for an eSport
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This is based off of a study of one company. I don't see how that was even published initially as a viable study, never mind making it to an article in The Atlantic. Does anyone have real research on this?
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Curious what your competitive advantage is over something like Cloudcheckr?
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Yes. In fact so far that's the biggest group of paying customers...
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I should add... Participants can also mark their individual replies as "private" if they aren't comfortable sharing something broadly with the focus group.
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Yes. You can set any topic to "private," which prevents the participants from see what each other wrote for that topic. You can also set a group to be completely anonymous, which will assign a random username to each participant a
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Hey HN - Matt from FocusGroupIt here. Would love to hear feedback from the general HN community, and especially from Kevin Hale @ YC given his background in the survey software market at Wufoo and SurveyMonkey. A direct link to sign up and

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