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by wensing 13y ago
Oops, I meant to say "1387 days LATER".
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by wensing 13y ago
Another fun thing about that thread is that Dave McClure commented on your edit of my pitch, and then 1387 days ago made 500 Startups second investment in Stormpulse in 6 months. :)
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by wensing 13y ago
Had the idea in October 2004, did a breadth-first search for a business model for almost 9 years, and now finally ... convergence. Just thought the HN community would like to know.
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Stormpulse Raises $1.3m Series Seed(twitter.com)
13 points by wensing 13y ago|4 comments
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by wensing 13y ago
This is excellent. Hi from Stormpulse; welcome to the weather fold.
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by wensing 13y ago
There is one hallmark of a cult which this document misses: there is no legitimate reason for leaving a cult. From the cult member's perspective, this is really a manifestation of the problem of induction. Everything is going great
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by wensing 13y ago
How do you solve anything when the people who are most aware of the problem also know that the problem inherently prevents the solution to the problem? It reminds me of an immune disease -- if your very means of getting well is broken, how
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by wensing 13y ago
No snark intended. Just lazy, sry.
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by wensing 13y ago
Agreed. I didn't actually intend any snark. The fact is, the URL was easier to remember for me than the blog link or Google query one, so that's why I used it as I was running out the door. I considered changing it later but hav
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by wensing 13y ago
See LMGTFY link above.
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by wensing 13y ago
Sure! http://lmgtfy.com/?q=bootstrapping+stormpulse
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by wensing 13y ago
This reminds me that I'm due for the next post in my 'starting Stormpulse' blog series, wherein I cover how and why we raised significant money 6 years after we started.
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by wensing 13y ago
When you shift from customer development to company-building. In other words, when you stop searching for, and instead start scaling, a business model. See also: http://steveblank.com/2012/03/05/search-versus-execute/
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by wensing 13y ago
Yes! I have one! Where do you plan to get your 5 million PV's per month?
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by wensing 13y ago
I had my idea in October 2004. In 2006, I quit my job to work on it full-time. In 2007, my co-founder and I finished the MVP. No one came. In 2008, we got a big break and it was used by 4 million people. By 2010, 10,000 companies and 6.5 m
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by wensing 14y ago
One litmus test that hasn't failed wrt angels is: how complicated are they trying to make this? Angel investing is not a time in your company's history for anything more than dead simple, fair terms, and quick turnaround. Avoid cute and f
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by wensing 14y ago
And if anyone has any questions about anything I (Matt @ Stormpulse) said, I'm happy to comment here as well. Thanks for listening everyone!
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by wensing 14y ago
I lived in Chicago for 6 years; being cooped up inside meant more time sipping hot beverages in front of my computer, which may be called sedentary but certainly not 'lost time' for a programmer.
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by wensing 14y ago
I disagree with his assertion that clutter doesn't bother kids as much as adults. My kids always play more contentedly for longer periods after we've done a big purge or simply organized their toys. I think they get overwhelmed but don't
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by wensing 14y ago
I've moved 7 times in 9 years and figure I've discarded, given away or sold over 2,500 lbs worth of stuff. Crazy when I think of it this way. Feels great.
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by wensing 14y ago
The answers we got.
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The Story of Our Seed Round in 65 Characters (Stormpulse)
3 points by wensing 14y ago|2 comments
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by wensing 14y ago
I would argue that Dropbox isn't a startup anymore. Once you've found a business model and start scaling your personnel (i.e. Steve Blank's "Company Building" stage), a startup is no longer a startup, IMO.
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by wensing 14y ago
Stormpulse - Full-time in Austin, TX (We are patio11's first angel investment!) Position: Full-Stack Polymath Relevant tech: Python, MySQL, Postgres, AWS, Backbone, Bootstrap. * Able to rapidly gain (and enjoy gaining) new expertise in a pr
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by wensing 14y ago
What makes you say you'd love to move to Chicago?
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by wensing 14y ago
As long as their valuation depends on speculation, number of users matters.
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by wensing 14y ago
Communicate and capture are easily done any time after you create great value. Communicate and capture are probably underestimated in terms of difficulty because the number of people that have 'gotten that far' is limited and a successful
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Understanding the Value Cycle: Create, Communicate, Deliver, Capture(wensing.tumblr.com)
29 points by wensing 14y ago|3 comments
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by wensing 14y ago
One of the most helpful things I've heard is the "very disappointed" framework that Sean Ellis uses. The idea is that if 20% of some user group would be very disappointed if they couldn't use your service any more, then you've nailed it.
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Everything Changes After Lift(wensing.tumblr.com)
54 points by wensing 14y ago|6 comments

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