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Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 10:44 AM UTC

mikekchar wrote: post #52

This is a really interesting document. I literally cringe reading it. At first I thought that I'd really like something like this document but with less random quotes, less facile language, less cheer leading, less fill in the blanks, etc. But then I thought... I wonder if I am reacting this way because this is exactly what I need to be reading. What if the way of thinking espoused by this document is precisely why I…

Find someone successful in business who doesn't talk like this. There are plenty of them around. I can't stand this type of talk either, thankfully when I started my business my friends / mentors were much more down-to-earth.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by SmellyGeekBoy » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 10:48 AM UTC

icu wrote: post #61

mikekchar wrote: post #52

This is a really interesting document. I literally cringe reading it. At first I thought that I'd really like something like this document but with less random quotes, less facile language, less cheer leading, less fill in the blanks, etc. But then I thought... I wonder if I am reacting this way because this is exactly what I need to be reading. What if the way of thinking espoused by this document is precisely why I…

My encouragement for you to start a business is this, 'become unstoppable'. How you become unstoppable is finding your 'why' for doing it. I think this is the hardest part... and more important than finding 'a business opportunity' because I think you need the meaning of your 'why' to sustain you through the difficulties of new venture creation, especially as you iterate through to product market fit. I think once yo…

Is... Is this some kind of parody / troll comment?

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by sscarduzio » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 11:39 AM UTC

"Roadmapping: a pre-development product workshop that helps founders validate their app idea against the marketplace. [...] With more than 500 Roadmapping sessions under our belt, we can say definitively that it works: 18% of our alumni raise more than $250,000 in pre-product seed capital"

How on earth is raising money a synonym of successful product market fit?

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by jonathansorum » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 11:53 AM UTC

iKevinShah wrote: post #45

throwaway6694 wrote: post #40

Nicely formatted PDF version: http://v.fastcdn.co/u/61275824/34126901-0-33906331-0-The-Fir...

Thanks :) Much better than "Print to PDF" option

Which is infinitely better than me accidentally sending it to my home printer...

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by EtienneK » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 11:53 AM UTC

SmellyGeekBoy wrote: post #72

icu wrote: post #61

Earlier quoted context omitted.

My encouragement for you to start a business is this, 'become unstoppable'. How you become unstoppable is finding your 'why' for doing it. I think this is the hardest part... and more important than finding 'a business opportunity' because I think you need the meaning of your 'why' to sustain you through the difficulties of new venture creation, especially as you iterate through to product market fit. I think once yo…

Is... Is this some kind of parody / troll comment?

Not at all. It's based on one of Simon Sinek's most well known TED talks: https://www.ted.com/talks/simon_sinek_how_great_leaders_insp...

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by jonathansorum » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 11:56 AM UTC

daniel_iversen wrote: post #3

Looks very interesting, but the doc is very busy right now. If you want to download a PDF copy of the doc for reading on the go, here's the link (let it load for a while): https://docs.google.com/document/d/104qgagSsp2rQQEDORGbYC0uq...

As someone further up in the thread posted: give the guy some love and download it from his website AND get it nicely formatted with a proper layout. Go here https://first100.yobenlee.com

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by wetghost » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 12:22 PM UTC

dgut wrote: post #69

boxcarr wrote: post #29

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Super simple. No matter the industry, you can beat the competition with AI + blockchain written in Rust.

And an amazing team: https://cdn-images-1.medium.com/max/800/1*TZ-QFPLJjt470c3pc7...

Me myself and I, go team go

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by alexchamberlain » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 12:40 PM UTC

scrollaway wrote: post #59

alexchamberlain wrote: post #57

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> sorry lads Come on, we can do better than that. This isn't an ol' boys club.

"Lads" is an appropriate, albeit very british, way of addressing men, which the poster above was doing. Why the noise?

Little disappointed to be so downvoted for calling this out; I don't really do it very often. Also a brit, but I didn't know that the others in the conversation were men. It's pretty easy to use `guys` instead.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by Kaveren » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 12:41 PM UTC

checker659 wrote: post #65

throwaway6694 wrote: post #40

Nicely formatted PDF version: http://v.fastcdn.co/u/61275824/34126901-0-33906331-0-The-Fir...

Or, better yet, thank the author himself by downloading it straight from his own website : https://first100.yobenlee.com/

Why do I need to give my name and email so I can be added to a mailing list before I can even see the content?

Obviously this isn't a problem because the submission has the content, as does the other commenter's direct link, but I just hate this sort of UX.

Let me see the value of your content (not a sales page) and if I really like it I'll subscribe to a mailing list after.

Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers

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Post by CPLX » Tue, Nov 20, 2018, 12:41 PM UTC

mikekchar wrote: post #52

This is a really interesting document. I literally cringe reading it. At first I thought that I'd really like something like this document but with less random quotes, less facile language, less cheer leading, less fill in the blanks, etc. But then I thought... I wonder if I am reacting this way because this is exactly what I need to be reading. What if the way of thinking espoused by this document is precisely why I…

You don’t have to buy into motivational speaking nonsense in order to start a business, and it’s reasonably safe to ignore people who give advice in that style.

So when you see Zig Ziglar and Tony Robbins quotes everywhere you can move on.

The trick though is not to let your distaste for a certain kind of content-free motivational business writing prevent you from taking a rigorous and scientific approach to management, business, and sales, which does require realizing that charisma, charm, interpersonal skills, motivation, emotional stability, and so on actually do matter and you’d better have a plan for those areas as well.