Founder's Hell: Competitive Horror
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Founder's Hell: Competitive Horror
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Re: Founder's Hell: Competitive Horror
#2Nice article, though I'm a bit confused by what your startup does. You may want to make the benefits/problem you're trying to solve a bit more obvious on the main page.
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#3Looking at your "twenty people" website, greeting me with a big "Warning: You are using Opera. This browser is not supported" text on the top, maybe explains a bit that this thing is failing. There are about 30 - 40 million opera users out there. If the main website of your project starts with that attitute, I'm wondering if it goes on like that.
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#4What we've learned from this post is that when the author was at Microsoft talking and interviewing startups and people in new, innovative spaces, they had absolutely no clue what so ever of what startup founders go through. Yes starting a company it is of course one of the most difficult things you can do -- especially if you waste time trying to raise money rather than say staying focusing on making money.
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#5I tried to upload my CV by downloading it from Google Docs as 'Word format' and uploading it to your site but it said it wasn't a supported file format. I'd check that as lots of people use Docs these days :)
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#6I tried to upload my CV by downloading it from Google Docs as 'Word format' and uploading it to your site but it said it wasn't a supported file format. I'd check that as lots of people use Docs these days :)
thanks man! we just changed to a different parser, will look into this right away! really appreciated!
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#7Your idea doesn't seem like one where first-move takes all (whether it's customers, hype, media press, etc). I recommend just going all in with the enterprise market, and marketing it as a tool for employers to keep track of the skills their employees have. Sort of like a poor man's SuccessFactors.
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#8Looking at your "twenty people" website, greeting me with a big "Warning: You are using Opera. This browser is not supported" text on the top, maybe explains a bit that this thing is failing. There are about 30 - 40 million opera users out there. If the main website of your project starts with that attitute, I'm wondering if it goes on like that.
As an Opera user I find it a bit annoying as well but I think it's just a silly warning that doesn't impact functionality.
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#9Looking at your "twenty people" website, greeting me with a big "Warning: You are using Opera. This browser is not supported" text on the top, maybe explains a bit that this thing is failing. There are about 30 - 40 million opera users out there. If the main website of your project starts with that attitute, I'm wondering if it goes on like that.
thanks for telling me, we actually are just about to release a new product in the coming days that allows all browsers, is much clearer in the message and hopefully will clear a lot of these issues! really appreciate it!
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#10I think this feeling is a staple of all involved in "longer-term" creative efforts that have to compete for the same mindshare. I'm sure PhD/grad students have the same horror when one of their Google alerts pops up with a conference paper abstract that reads just like what they've been slaving on for three months :o !!