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by wensing 14y ago
Looks like it: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3519747 and other comments verify.
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by wensing 14y ago
I suspect most just want to build a product _someone_ finds useful Don't forget to start by creating something YOU find useful, then. I'm starting to think the main problems nerds have are mostly social, btw.
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by wensing 14y ago
I love a good pricing discussing so I wish I knew what you were saying when you say: The only way to make that stuff is to sell it as some kind of "cloud" service where you make your money on eyeballs elsewhere. And No one will buy this
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by wensing 14y ago
I find it easy to get excited about hard problems regardless of what the company actually does externally. Particularly if that means internally there's a wealth of cash in return for said hard problem solving. I think you'd have to admit
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by wensing 14y ago
Yes. I never expected to do it, but I was finally, completely convinced it was the right thing to do, aided by the fact that, at least at that moment, it was the only thing that I could live with.
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by wensing 14y ago
The one highlighted in the story is Mark Dumas. https://angel.co/mark-dumas http://angel.co/stormpulse
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by wensing 14y ago
Thanks. I just posted an update to the saga here (spoiler: tough road, but it ends well): http://wensing.tumblr.com/post/26830276239/bootstrapping-sto...
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by wensing 14y ago
If you have revenues and you aren't profitable, don't bother. If you don't have revenues, it might be worth a shot, unless you're a first-time entrepreneur. If you're profitable, go get 'em.
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by wensing 14y ago
they won't be billion dollar companies Huh, what? You can't be a billion dollar company by focusing on a niche? Is transporting crude oil from Saudi Arabia to the Americas a niche? They're not exciting I guess it depends if you can ge
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by wensing 14y ago
I don't think there's a necessary correlation between focusing on a narrow customer segment and only being a "feature" startup. Stormpulse has never been a "feature" startup but we absolutely embraced a niche to get started.
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by wensing 14y ago
When Stormpulse first launched we only covered hurricanes in the Atlantic and didn't have radar. That focus allowed us to create a product 10x better for that "narrow" concern (still possessed by millions) but made it insanely difficult (r
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by wensing 14y ago
Thank you sir. Yes, I do think options are open in the long term.
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by wensing 14y ago
The main thing I learned is that fundraising is a non-deterministic endeavor. Just because you have everything you think you need, there is always a reason for an investor to say no. Most commonly, during the last attempt to fundraise,
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Bootstrapping Stormpulse, Part 2(wensing.tumblr.com)
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by wensing 14y ago
How many fans will stop publishing their data to spite them for the acquisition or if the site gets more evil? I wonder.
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by wensing 14y ago
Yep!
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by wensing 14y ago
Definitely a win for those guys if they carpe diem.
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by wensing 14y ago
Okay.
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by wensing 14y ago
Well, thanks! :)
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by wensing 14y ago
I don't think Weather Channel was threatened by Wunderground's market share. A more plausible explanation I've heard is to reduce competition for advertisers in the weather space.
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by wensing 14y ago
Up until 1992 the weathermen would still stand in front of the hurricane while blathering on about rainstorms in the midwest. Then Andrew happened and that changed everything.
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by wensing 14y ago
Yep. Where it gets complicated is when the situation changes and storms erupt. Then what?
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by wensing 14y ago
That's exactly what we've attempted to do / have done with Stormpulse.
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by wensing 14y ago
If you ever want to talk about bootstrapping a weather startup, shoot me a line.
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by wensing 14y ago
This is interesting. I think it's a good fit from a business model perspective (both are ad-driven, albeit TWC more so), but the fan bases are very different. The geeks at Wunderground are already crying foul ("YOU ARE GOING TO DESTROY WX
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by wensing 14y ago
Austin, TX or remote - Stormpulse http://stormpulse.com We are a profitable, bootstrapped company disrupting the $1 billion weather business with a unique, counter-intuitive product used by 6 million people last year. Our clients include
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by wensing 14y ago
Stormpulse.
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by wensing 14y ago
I've found that there is a lot less customer service work to do in a B2B setting than B2C.
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by wensing 14y ago
This is true, except when it's false. Stormpulse was free for years and is now collecting subscription revenues from customers that used to be free users. And they are not the slightest bit angry about paying.
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by wensing 14y ago
Some people have decided that DDG's privacy is a must-have while others have decided that (at least for now) it is a nice-to-have. And DDG is of course betting that more and more people will arrive at the conclusion that DDG's privacy "fea

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