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Show HN: FocusGroupIt – The “SurveyMonkey of focus groups”(focusgroupit.com)
1 points by tchock23 11y ago|7 comments
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by tchock23 11y ago
There is also the case for a potential increase in his conversion rates as a result of adding SSL. Online shoppers I've observed in usability sessions often scour sites looking for evidence of security measures (e.g., green EV certs in
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by tchock23 11y ago
That was my first thought as well. This is a blatant rip off of the theory of disruptive innovations put forth by Clayton Christensen many years ago.
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by tchock23 11y ago
Are there any plans to do another office hours session? Would be interested in getting Kevin's feedback in particular on my startup FocusGroupIt ( https://focusgroupit.com ).
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Agreed - Slack is awesome for small teams that need to communicate frequently, but it's definitely not ideal for larger "societies" (as you define them). I've been invited to a bunch of Slack groups recently, from post-c
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by tchock23 12y ago
He has mentioned Bench a few times as a business model/company he admires in various podcasts he's been on. I wasn't surprised in the slightest when I saw that he was featured on their blog. Either they got word of it, or he
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by tchock23 12y ago
I help out as a mentor at an accelerator in upstate NY. Unfortunately, we see solo founders rushing to find a co-founder just to go through accelerator programs. I wish your reply was shared widely with anyone applying to any accelerator an
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by tchock23 12y ago
The advice to "scratch your own itch" is fine if you're building a hobby project. If you intend to build a real business then doing at least some "validation" (I hate how entrepreneurs use that word, but that's
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by tchock23 12y ago
I wouldn't consider that unique to the UK. That's a common problem throughout the startup community (I'm on the teaching team at an accelerator here in NY and it's the same way). It's just more fun to build a produc
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by tchock23 12y ago
I used to think this was bad advice (hiring out to others to vet your idea) and would actively advise startups against it, but the more I work with entrepreneurs the more I'm coming around to the view that this is a good route to take
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by tchock23 12y ago
It's not just a problem in Silicon Valley. I recently ran a survey of my local startup community in Western NY and 47% of the software startups in the sample said that they intend to pursue venture capital financing in the next two yea
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by tchock23 12y ago
Many moons ago I ran a research study for Microsoft on their SPOT watch initiative, and despite countless focus groups among many different consumer audiences, absolutely no one wanted a smart watch. Granted, their smart watch had some fair
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by tchock23 12y ago
I see this all the time with the startup founders I work with. It's a version of the IKEA effect ( http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/IKEA_effect ). Many founders (myself included) find it difficult to scrap an idea they
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by tchock23 12y ago
It's a bad idea for founders to be doing their own market research. The prevailing advice from "startup gurus" like Steve Blank is that you must "get out of the building" and talk to customers face-to-face. Here&#x2
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by tchock23 12y ago
Very good points here. The prevailing advice for entrepreneurs from folks like Steve Blank is that you must "get out of the building" and be physically in front of customers to interview them, but in my experience 95% of customers
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Starting with an idea vs. starting with a market(customerdiscovery.com)
1 points by tchock23 13y ago|0 comments
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I applied solo, but had two people about to join me as co-founders. That could have been part of it, but wasn't the official stated reason...
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by tchock23 13y ago
I was initially surprised for the same reason as you, especially given some of pg's comments about the best ideas looking like "toys" at first. However, looking back I would have done the same thing in his position. My protot
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by tchock23 13y ago
The interview was intense (as many others have reported) with PG asking rapid-fire questions about the app, business model, team, etc. In the end I was rejected because my app "could be built by a decent developer in a weekend," w
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by tchock23 13y ago
Sad to hear PG won't be interviewing applicants anymore (though I understand why). The 10 minutes where he grilled me on my startup idea were some of the most fun I've had, despite me not getting in. I was hoping to get another ch
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by tchock23 13y ago
There are so many factors that can combine to influence this rule, and it's hard to generalize or even predict which ones will impact it the most. I co-founded a company that built and managed private online communities for large brand
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by tchock23 13y ago
I'd say that is true if you're truly talking about "friends," but since "friends" on most social sites actually means an acquaintance, it's much less interesting.
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by tchock23 13y ago
People need a schema for any new idea in order to quickly understand what it is trying to accomplish. Saying you are "X for Y" is not being unoriginal; rather, it is a simple hack to enable faster comprehension. Heck, I used it to
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by tchock23 13y ago
I found the order of the bosses in the post to be interesting: Investors -> Employees -> Customers. Not sure if that was on purpose, but I would have put it in the opposite order if the subtext of the article was how to successfully b
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by tchock23 13y ago
I was thinking the same thing as the OP the other day - most of the sites I visit every day are tailored toward the 1% that gets VC and goes for the gold. I recently registered startupsinhardmode.com and plan to blog there about the day-to-
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by tchock23 13y ago
An API would be awesome. I actually have a specific project kicking around in the back of my mind that I would launch solely around a Watsi API. Here's to hoping they see this thread...
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When I first heard about Watsi, absolutely none of the author's negative points entered my mind. Now I'm kind of pissed that I'll think about them when I think of Watsi. It doesn't change my donation behavior, but just m
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by tchock23 13y ago
Another way to ask the pricing question is to phrase it as follows: "What do you feel is a fair and reasonable price for this product?" For some reason using the terms "fair" and "reasonable" in the question he
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Exactly - if someone won't even register to create an account, there is almost zero chance they are going to fork over their credit card info at some point in the future. Asking for registration validates they will take some small step
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by tchock23 13y ago
My apologies - I didn't mean to insinuate that IgnitionDeck in specific was shady. In fact, yours looks to be the least shady of the bunch that I have seen (which is why I mentioned it in my original comment). I was just trying to poin

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