tezclarke

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by tezclarke 7mo ago
Bugs are top of funnel.
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
A really good company worth checking out in this vein is equipmentshare.com. In 10y they started and IPO'd, by being a better way to rent heavy equipment.
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
I have been surprised by how many tech founders, currently funded by VC, have side gigs or are running the company knowing they wont' or can't scale it. I don't think this is a good thing for either the founders or the VC (wh
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
On "venture or nothing" - This will be my second company and this time round I have stripped right back to the problem, which is actually quite basic - pest control is a big, good business to be in and it's possible to build
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
2 months
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
Diagnosis without the professional having to be on site is a good use case.
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
Getting data into the crm without physical input is a good quick win. Techs will often drive and type at the same time. Another good win is scheduling the right technician for a job when the customer call comes in. Lots of companies buildin
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
Yeah agree - software needs to either do a ton more, be much cheaper, have network effects (such as connecting supply and demand), or some data benefit to avoid being built in-house or replicated. Also for me there's an element of pick
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
Lots of guys working at the big companies do this type of work (called exclusion) on the side. One guy where I worked charged a restaurant $8k for exclusion work that took 2-3 days out of hours and $500 in materials. I asked the company why
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
Congrats - what's the company called?
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
I agree a lightweight franchise would be attractive, though I don't like most franchising options due to the fees and lack of equity build up for the operator. Some franchising platforms (window cleaning is a good example) don't o
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
This is going to be the route for a lot of white collar people as they lose their jobs to AI.
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
Yes, the barrier here is the desire to study and pass the exam. If willing, you are up and running relatively quickly - but only as a technician under someone else's operating license. To get the operator license (eg to be a full on pe
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
Go to market - e.g. how to sell your thing. For residential / consumer markets, referrals are the gold standard and I agree to an extent about the local focus. A lot of PE (private equity) backed roll-ups result in a worse customer and
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
We will recruit technicians who are aligned with the tech-enabled approach.
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
I don't believe SaaS is a good option in this sector - the incumbent VSaaS is decent, cheap, and ubiquitous. By "tech-enabling", I mean layering tech into the ops where it adds value and helps to scale the business. Obvious w
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by tezclarke 7mo ago
I wanted to get in the field for real, see how it works. There is going to be a lot more people exploring blue-collar work as white collar jobs are eliminated. I plan to acquire the traditional operator I've identified, and tech-enable
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I wanted to build vertical SaaS for pest control, so I took a technician job(onhand.pro)
448 points by tezclarke 7mo ago|182 comments
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BuildStream (YC S19) Is Hiring a full-stack dev(ycombinator.com)
1 points by tezclarke 5y ago