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by ztratar 9y ago
- Talk to potential customers - Ask them for feedback - Try to get them to pay - Repeat ;]
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The app ecosystem went mobile. Facebook used to be the way to distribute apps because you could gain a userbase super fast, but it was abused by the likes of Zynga, FB cracked down, and people went to mobile (which weakened the FB signup pl
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Using Ideation, Inspiration, and Emotions to Drive Personal Success(getboost.io)
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Building the Best LinkedIn Profile: Tips and Examples(getboost.io)
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If you want to talk about this personally with a professional, use https://getboost.io
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Didn't expect this one to end as a resignation. Seems to me that he just thought the timing was appropriate.
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10/10 Ironic. Would comment again.
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Wrong, wrong -- so incredibly wrong. Try my startup and talk to one of our career coaches. It's free for the first couple days. https://getboost.io We can help you.
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First post. Shady. Sounds like a MongoDB recruiter trying to hack recruiting to me. Trying to get in right before the IPO means that most of the money is already on the table and that will be priced into your options. If you think this is a
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Coinbase doesn't work for you? Sounds like a credit card problem.
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continued reading more. Agreed that it's a societal thing that's there from the upbringing and most men don't do enough to understand it.
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Am a guy. Also have this exact mental load thing in my head 80% of the day. I can see how it could be more common for women, but I think it's also a misinterpretation and simplification of how men think as well.
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Try the wayback machine?
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You're attempting to hijack their brand here way too directly. This could be lawsuit potential. I doubt they'd do it, but I would personally think about taking the site down fast or just calling it PitchPlace. As Pedalpete said be
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^^^^ someone gets it!
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Hahahaha.
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by ztratar 9y ago
I always love when this advice contrasts with "Why does it cost so much" :P Our entire engineering team is dedicated to building tools that make our career coaches super human. Unit economics can get healthy pretty fast.
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Hey! We have a wide variety of users and are trying to figure out if we want to niche, but so far a lot of the success has been against broad markets. Low/Mid level employees are certainly much easier to help. Less complicated politica
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by ztratar 9y ago
Recruiters only give advice to job seekers. Also, most recruiters (sorry) can't be trusted. Their motivation is not aligned with the candidate's best interests -- candidates are their product.
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We are too -- that's why we are working close with our lawyer to understand all the implications. We're also working on DB security. Our data isn't large enough yet to really be a big target -- it's pretty boring right n
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by ztratar 9y ago
Boost does motivational coaching as well! We brought in some CBTs (Cognitive Behavioral Therapist) who recommended we train our coaches in it. I can't guarantee it'll be as high quality as the Billion's actors though. ;)
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The humans are trained career coaches who are on our full-time staff. They are obliged to follow all privacy and confidentiality agreements that the company follows itself.
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Hey! Message me -> zach@getboost.io We actually played that game before. We were arbitraging candidates for their job hunt -- taking a % of their salary upon successful new job. The issue was, most frequently, was that you'd have to
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by ztratar 9y ago
Totally agree. We help people build external social support networks as well. In addition, as is true with all good coaches, most conversations circle around introspection and talking through analysis rather than imposing our own advice. We
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So far we haven't had anyone give us any information that's super juicy, so we're not worried about a built-in UI to discourage it yet. Once we can expand the team further, hiring a full-time security engineering staff will b
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We're thinking about putting in an NDA-like process that's more formal. People should feel secure that we have their back. Interestingly enough, "licensed career coaching" is a complete sham. There's no real accredi
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So what's weird is she actually posted last week too, but only she can see that submission in her submissions page. I can't see it -- I only see this one. Maybe that's why this one was allowed to go up? Not sure.
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Hey Beager! 1. We actually have a load balancer of sorts. When we get flooded with requests and won't be able to maintain conversational quality, people get put into the line. It's effective for launches like this. We prefer to no
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To both points: trust is earned over time and we have to actually design our onboarding flows and coaching processes around that idea. It's tricky, but it's how it should work -- we don't expect people to have implicit faith
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True that!

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