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by toumhi 13y ago
This all sounds very familiar. I also built a SaaS for small business owners in France (professional filesharing) but I realized I didn't care enough about the product and the audience I was serving (among other problems) I even wrote a pos
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by toumhi 13y ago
Did you work at Hyves and are you now working for Bliep? I know a few people who did :-)
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by toumhi 13y ago
It's quite a large topic, but the different steps could be : 1. formulate the problem of what you're aiming to solve, and the customer segments who you think have this problem (lean canvas / business model canvas can help you there) 2. ask
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by toumhi 13y ago
Also something I've looked at, are you familiar with https://www.prefinery.com/ ? It seems to do what you're writing about (but have not used it myself).
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by toumhi 13y ago
Good article, which is more for the case when you know your customers and when your sales process already kinda works (although not optimally). For most startups though, the problem is that they don't know their customers, have an imaginary
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The Freelancer’s Guide To Recurring Revenue(planscope.io)
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Worrying About Market Fit/Validation: Is It Really Worth It?(bootstrappist.com)
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by toumhi 13y ago
> Generally, though, you want the time period to end after the user has seen the benefits and before they have exhausted their initial enthusiasm or encountered any bugs. Corollary: do not end the trial, whether it is time-limited or us
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by toumhi 14y ago
OP seems to equate Lean Startup with "build a landing page then see what happens". This is more about "wishing and hoping" method than lean. Lean advocates to design experiments to maximize learning from your target market and the problem y
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by toumhi 14y ago
Reminds me of that time when my previous company tried to create such a policy ... I even wrote a stack overflow question at that time: http://stackoverflow.com/questions/3009885/should-a-company-... As I wrote at the time, quoting the he
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Devtrepreneur(gilbert.pellegrom.me)
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When does preparation become procrastination?(sparklewise.com)
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3 critical, non-obvious ingredients for ANY launch(unicornfree.com)
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by toumhi 14y ago
A question that often comes back: Can I enter <insert saturated market here>? The answer is it depends :-) There are lots of successful project management apps. The advantage of an established market is that people already know they
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by toumhi 14y ago
Book Yourself solid. Very interesting if you're a freelancer or building products. I'm 1/3 through the book. Goes a lot into how to create trust and how to adjust your sales and marketing based on the trust you've created.
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by toumhi 14y ago
Agree. OP might want to get acquainted to Lean Startup and especially Customer Development ("Get out of the building"). You don't want to spend time working on something nobody wants. The earlier you can validate parts of your business mode
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Minimal Valuable Experiments(sparklewise.com)
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by toumhi 14y ago
Quite timely article as we're also looking to streamline the sales process, but in a slightly different context: we're still in customer validation stage (that is, we're not sure of our business model yet) and we need to convert feedback fr
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Confirmation bias: Are you too much in love with your idea?(sparklewise.com)
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Post-mortem: 5 mistakes I made with my first online product(sparklewise.com)
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How to write an effective todo item(sparklewise.com)
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by toumhi 14y ago
You're creating a self-fulfilling prophecy. You believe you lack pre-requisites women require. Truth is, there are loads of short guys, ugly guys or otherwise challenged guys that get what they want out of dating, whether it's lots of rando
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by toumhi 14y ago
"Customer Development [...] it's tough to get started" True! A few helpful tips, such as how to speak the vocabulary of your customers, and monitor places they hang out at (author mentions Facebook, Twitter, but you could throw in specific
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by toumhi 14y ago
Hey man, I've already written blog posts in english about a project in french, and people here on HN were really enthusiastic to share their comments, and I learnt a lot from it - so I think you've got nothing to lose. You don't need to tra
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Facebook Users Report Seeing Old Private Messages Showing Up On Timelines(techcrunch.com)
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by toumhi 14y ago
I agree. Failed several times at that. Started by providing gift certificate templates for small businesses and ended up writing endless series of blog posts about how to create gift certificates. Then another one about weight loss, because
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by toumhi 14y ago
Hey Thibaut! The way I see it, there's a time and space for both. "side products" require much more upfront time investment than "side projects" (market research, competition evaluation etc). It depends what one is looking for at the moment
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by toumhi 14y ago
On a related note, I've started toying with the idea of providing better project management tools to handle projects on odesk (and related websites). If you outsource work on oDesk, and you feel like the process could use some improvements,
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by toumhi 14y ago
I agree with it 100%. It's hard to tell when to quit and when to stick with your startup/product, but not having fun for too long is a sure sign you should be doing something else. I currently have the same problem, not having fun anymore d
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by toumhi 14y ago
Ha, I realize now I've talked with you (or some other colleague of yours, Florian) for some eventual Django freelance work. Glad to hear it's working well, seems like a crowded market in France at least.

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