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2michaeltaylor

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About 2michaeltaylor

Co-Founder and CPO at Ladder.io. Spent $25m of other people's money on marketing.

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    Comment #22706746

    weirdly zip recruiter is still hiring

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    Comment #12462804

    Just updated the post to make credit explicit.

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    Comment #12460584

    Just removed this. It wasn't getting many shares anyway. Sorry for the inconvenience!

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    Comment #12460578

    ^^ super useful feedback, thanks for taking the time to explain and get more specific. Generally, most people do NO (or very little) research, testing or thinking about their busin…

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    Comment #12460334

    Good question! Lots of people don't know what we do from our site, but it's actually working pretty well at the minute; our conversion rate is 19% for that page! We've been trying …

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    Comment #12460320

    LOL. Well they already had jobs where they could work on their idea. It's funny though he did kind of start lean and build up: http://bulbapedia.bulbagarden.net/wiki/History_of_Pok…

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    Comment #12460305

    Thanks! Yeah I agree; I'd still be happy if I never made the next Snapchat. I'd rather make little fun businesses that make money and can grow without too much insanity.

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    Comment #12460300

    We just started by solving our own problems as a marketing agency. Eventually we found one that enough other people had (through this testing process).

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    Comment #12460287

    Hey - author here. Fair point, all credit goes to the various 'lean' books; Lean Startup, Running Lean, 4 Steps to the Epiphany and Lean Analytics all come to mind when I think wha…

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    Comment #12460270

    Thanks for reading / commenting on the post. Just wanted to say I massively agree with you; it's exactly how we got started, and could afford to test these various business ideas a…

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    Comment #12460252

    Haha I'm sorry if it came across as 'culty'. I'll check out the video thanks for sharing.

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    Comment #12457859

    Makes sense. Pretty big change conceptually so jotted it down for our next co-founders meeting.

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    Comment #12457656

    That's a very valid point. One for the lawyers. Anyone have good advice on this front? Happy to add to post.

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    Comment #12457645

    Cynicism is definitely healthy. * Very fair point, just added to our Asana. * Client's money. We've spent about $20k of our money over the past six months or so. I would argue we'r…

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    Comment #12457428

    Hey, author and one of the co-founders here, michael taylor. Thanks for checking us out and taking the time to comment! We definitely are standing on shoulders of giants here; I sl…

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