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Loved this essay, but I'm a little confused by this footnote. "[5] If you're building something for which you can't easily get a small set of users to observe—e.g. enterprise software—and in a domain where you have no connections, you'll have to rely on cold calls and introductions. But should you even be working on such an idea?" When pg says, "Should you even be working on such an idea?" -- is he saying that he que…
Whoa....this footnote flies in the face of the 'charge early' crowd: [8] If you have to choose between the subset that will sign up quickest and those that will pay the most, it's usually best to pick the former, because those are probably the early adopters. They'll have a better influence on your product, and they won't make you expend as much effort on sales. And though they have less money, you don't need that mu…
Note that is probably written for the Startup goes VC route. It may be different for the Bootstrappers.
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For anyone interested in using a subreddit to practice acquiring users: Metareddit lets you track all mentions of keywords or phrases across Reddit. It let me find literally everyone who commented about the LSAT. http://metareddit.com
You should give http://www.commentfindder.com a try. I believe it has a more extensive index than metareddit which I'm pretty sure is based on google search. I'd love any feedback.
There might be some more worthy places to also incorporate search in (quora comes to mind)
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For anyone interested in using a subreddit to practice acquiring users: Metareddit lets you track all mentions of keywords or phrases across Reddit. It let me find literally everyone who commented about the LSAT. http://metareddit.com
You should give http://www.commentfindder.com a try. I believe it has a more extensive index than metareddit which I'm pretty sure is based on google search. I'd love any feedback.
* I couldn't block subreddits from the feed. In my case, LSAT is also a weapon in some popular videos games. On Metareddit, I was able to block the most common gaming subreddits so those results never came up. * Metareddit produced an actual feed I could check once a day for new comments. This is more of a search engine. * I have to hover over the link to see the subreddit. That's often very relevant
Apart from that, looks good. And obviously, these criticism depend on your use case. I used metareddit specifically for monitoring.
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You should give http://www.commentfindder.com a try. I believe it has a more extensive index than metareddit which I'm pretty sure is based on google search. I'd love any feedback.
Some quick notes. Mostly negative, only because I haven't used it long enough to notice advantages. Overall, it looks like a good site. Hope these are helpful: * I couldn't block subreddits from the feed. In my case, LSAT is also a weapon in some popular videos games. On Metareddit, I was able to block the most common gaming subreddits so those results never came up. * Metareddit produced an actual feed I could check…
On commentfindder you can exclude specific subreddits with "-subreddit:askreddit" syntax or target subreddits by removing the minus. Of course, I should make this more obvious, right now its kind of a cheat code.
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For anyone interested in using a subreddit to practice acquiring users: Metareddit lets you track all mentions of keywords or phrases across Reddit. It let me find literally everyone who commented about the LSAT. http://metareddit.com
You should give http://www.commentfindder.com a try. I believe it has a more extensive index than metareddit which I'm pretty sure is based on google search. I'd love any feedback.
This bums me out. Majorly. I work at a YC startup (which will remain nameless), and we function exactly the opposite of how this essay suggests. We aren't huge by any means, but we focus heavily on scale, and suppress ideas that do not scale. Automate everything. Nothing should be manual . I'm an engineer, but I recognize the importance of fantastic customer service. While building an iPhone app, I suggested that use…
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For anyone interested in using a subreddit to practice acquiring users: Metareddit lets you track all mentions of keywords or phrases across Reddit. It let me find literally everyone who commented about the LSAT. http://metareddit.com
You should give http://www.commentfindder.com a try. I believe it has a more extensive index than metareddit which I'm pretty sure is based on google search. I'd love any feedback.
Source: I run metareddit.
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37signals is one of them. They were in the software consulting business and built applications for in house use to manage their projects. They later realized that their clients need those applications as well. I believe tumblr was a side project as well while the founder was consulting
I think this isn't what Seth meant: there's a lot of consultancies turned into product companies but it's different to start running a startup and then to work with your clients to find product market fit etc. I would also be interested of examples