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Re: The Startup Toolkit - for founders in search of a business model

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Post by JoeAltmaier » Sun, Oct 10, 2010, 12:50 PM UTC

akkartik wrote: post #5

frederikfleck wrote: post #4

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I think it helps you focus and work through a business idea in a structured way. Have experienced it that I just fell in love with an idea. It helps you think about it in a more rational way. If you end up doing the process with this tool or with a sheet of paper doesn't matter. But I like it as it "forces" you to think of it from different angels.

I never understood why the boxes are shaped the way they are. Is the area proportional to importance? Why is market on the left and not the right? Why not just do a boring row of boxes? Or is it just arranged in a way the visual cortex finds interesting? That would add weight to the idea that this is just a meme.

It looks more scientific that way

Re: The Startup Toolkit - for founders in search of a business model

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Post by JoeAltmaier » Sun, Oct 10, 2010, 12:51 PM UTC

coryl wrote: post #7

I wish I could see what it was before signing up.

Right, the registration thrown in your face has got to be a conversion killer. I know I left instantly.

Re: The Startup Toolkit - for founders in search of a business model

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Post by robfitz » Sun, Oct 10, 2010, 5:40 PM UTC

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #12

coryl wrote: post #7

I wish I could see what it was before signing up.

Right, the registration thrown in your face has got to be a conversion killer. I know I left instantly.

It previously used randomized urls with no registration required and the #1 request by a huge margin was that people wanted to feel more secure before beginning to type in their biz model and that registering would achieve that.

We live in a world of trade-offs.

Re: The Startup Toolkit - for founders in search of a business model

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Post by JoeAltmaier » Tue, Oct 12, 2010, 3:35 PM UTC

robfitz wrote: post #13

JoeAltmaier wrote: post #12

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Right, the registration thrown in your face has got to be a conversion killer. I know I left instantly.

It previously used randomized urls with no registration required and the #1 request by a huge margin was that people wanted to feel more secure before beginning to type in their biz model and that registering would achieve that. We live in a world of trade-offs.

No tradeoff needed. Let me try it with fake data without registering. Which is exactly what I planned to do. Until faced with the registration page, whereupon I fled like the morning dew.