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Lecture 8: How to Start a Startup

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Re: Lecture 8: How to Start a Startup

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mattmanser wrote: post #31
spacefight wrote: post #29

"Are you doing whatever it takes to get initial customers?* Examples given: sending 100 emails a day. " Sounds like spam to me.

Spam is 1,000,000 emails to some random list you bought for $25.

Nope. Spam is unsolicited e-mail - there are laws in quite a lot of countries regulating exactly this.

Re: Lecture 8: How to Start a Startup

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Post by mattmanser »

spacefight wrote: post #32
mattmanser wrote: post #31

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Spam is 1,000,000 emails to some random list you bought for $25.

Nope. Spam is unsolicited e-mail - there are laws in quite a lot of countries regulating exactly this.

They're generally only for individuals, not emailing companies.

To be honest, if you think 100 emails a day is bad, I honestly would not consider entrepreneurship as a career.

You will have to do far more grey area things than that to succeed.

Re: Lecture 8: How to Start a Startup

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Post by spacefight »

mattmanser wrote: post #33
spacefight wrote: post #32

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Nope. Spam is unsolicited e-mail - there are laws in quite a lot of countries regulating exactly this.

They're generally only for individuals, not emailing companies. To be honest, if you think 100 emails a day is bad, I honestly would not consider entrepreneurship as a career. You will have to do far more grey area things than that to succeed.

Nice attitude you have there. No, you don't have to do illegal or grey area things - and yes, I consider myself an entrepreneur.

Re: Lecture 8: How to Start a Startup

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Post by vram22 »

itazula wrote: post #20

DoorDash should team up with Uber, Lyft et al. Or the other way around, Uber or Lyft could do what DoorDash does. On another note, home delivery has been in Japan for many years, but there, the density of population makes it feasible - someone at the restaurant just loads the trays of food onto a special spring-suspension tray holder on his bicycle and makes the delivery. After finishing the meal, the recipient leave…

Home delivery has been around in India for ages too. Not only for restaurants (for which it became common only some 10 or 15 years ago, IMO, though existed before too), but much more for small general stores - called kirana stores here - what are called mom-and-pop stores in the US. And the owners of those small stores, who often are from the Marwari community (at least in northern and central India) are very entrepreneurial.

Re: Lecture 8: How to Start a Startup

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Post by rajens »

rajens wrote: post #34

29 Quotes from Walker Williams on Doing Things that Don't Scale: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/29-quotes-from-wal...

it took me a little longer to post Justin's quotes, but here they are for anyone who's interested- 20 Quotes from Justin Kan on Getting Press for your Startup: https://medium.com/how-to-start-a-startup/20-quotes-from-jus...
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