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   by wensing 14y ago

   +1. Also, consider setting a price that cuts out the vast majority of demanding cheapskates but keeps it salient for the rest. $200 is a good starting place. You can also achieve this by charging for the entire year up front instead of mo
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   by wensing 14y ago

   How complex is your app? Is it entertainment or productivity?
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   by wensing 14y ago

   Maintaining two product lines for two segments is a recipe for lack of focus and serving two masters. In the end you will choose to focus on one at a time and may never do both.
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   by wensing 14y ago

   I can tell you from our experience with Stormpulse that this is 100% false and backwards. Those that pay more are more willing to work with you. Nothing more expensive than someone that expects the world for $10.
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   by wensing 14y ago

   This is Zack as mentioned in the interview. Zack is awesome.
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   by wensing 14y ago

   Wow! Thanks Patrick - your ethic and advice have been inspiring along the way.
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   by wensing 14y ago

   7+ year journey from idea to distribution to revenue to (potentially) profitable year-round.
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   by wensing 14y ago

   Thanks Patrick!
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   by wensing 14y ago

   Paywall just went up about an hour ago as a matter of fact.
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    by wensing 14y ago

    The first mover advantage is the way we describe winning products (value propositions) in hindsight. They are almost never, ever temporally first in any regard except the first to bundle together the right set of experiences.
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    by wensing 15y ago

    The main reason they were acquired? Not the tech, not the audience (does FB need either?). I guess for the brand + engagement? Someone said as a defense against the big G acquiring them later - sounds plausible?
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    by wensing 15y ago

    Wasn't too long, read and extremely interesting. A sincere thank you. Cancer itself is such a rollercoaster of emotions for everyone involved and these promises and failures of breakthroughs are a sad and ironic parallel.
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    by wensing 15y ago

    Why is it that I've read maybe a dozen articles like this in the past couple of years but still don't see much change in the way cancer is being treated in the wild? Will there be a year in the not-too-distant future when all of these brea
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    by wensing 15y ago

    maybe you're just busy because you're either caring for your 4 kids Yep.
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    by wensing 15y ago

    I grew up in my dad's architecture firm (literally, he worked day and night so when I was sick from school I used to bunk between massive cabinets of blueprints ...), so I've seen (and run) more blueprints than 99% of the humans on the plan
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    by wensing 15y ago

    The Stormpulse map was originally written in AS2 by yours truly. We recently moved it over to haXe and are now generating a .swf and an iOS app from the same codebase. I should say by "we moved it over" I mean an MIT Media Lab PhD. No wa
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    by wensing 15y ago

    Thanks for the response. I want to clarify that my quest isn't to run anyone through the gauntlet. To quote myself: A scarier but more tractable solution is educating and arming first-time founders with the lessons and toughness they nee
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    What They Can't Tell You: Starting Up Outside a Hub(wensing.tumblr.com)

    13 points by wensing 15y ago|5 comments
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    by wensing 15y ago

    Startup America link: http://www.s.co
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    Poll: What do you think of Startup America?

    1 points by wensing 15y ago|2 comments
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    by wensing 15y ago

    Excited and involved.
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    by wensing 15y ago

    Heard about it, kind of curious.
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    by wensing 15y ago

    Heard about it, not interested.
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    by wensing 15y ago

    Skeptical.
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    by wensing 15y ago

    Cynical.
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    by wensing 15y ago

    No opinion yet. (Never heard of it)
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    "Bootstrapping Survival Lessons" [my talk at SuperConf 2012](wensing.tumblr.com)

    1 points by wensing 15y ago|0 comments
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    by wensing 15y ago

    Given how new models of thought threaten and destroy old models of thought, this might not work out as cordially as you imagine.
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    by wensing 15y ago

    What makes them different could just be that their marketing is working. Good for them.
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    by wensing 15y ago

    I woke up at 4:55am for a year while working on Stormpulse. Specifically, 2007, when my first child as 3. I was so excited that I never had a problem launching out of bed and walking down the hall to work by 5:00.