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Super simple. No matter the industry, you can beat the competition with AI + blockchain written in Rust.
please dont turn this into reddit please
They don't use Rust.
How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
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Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
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Which server would you use to host it? Hint: It's a trick question
Serverless of course ;-)
I remember the days when you had the terms "Server" == software and "Server Class Machine" == machine you run the server on.
An AWS Lambda program is therefore a server!
Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
#123I will circle back and read this over the weekend but my advice is this: Get to 10 customers, and then double down on anything that worked. Some ideas for the first 10: - write an essay about something interesting that you can weave your business idea into, submit to tech blogs like hackernoon - join a maker group that can help you in an informal quid pro quo with social media shares and upvotes - launch on hacker ne…
> find places your customers are
> we used to take Cronitor
You clearly have skin in the game due to following your own advice.
Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
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You're not being forced at all.
According to GDPR you are. If your personal information is not required (from a technical standpoint) in order to use the service, you're not allowed to block access to the service if the user refuses to give you their personal information. That particular law is quite clear that requiring someone to give you their email address in exchange for digital goods that do not need your email address in order to function (l…
Wow, what an incredibly entitled attitude. People like this are why we can't have nice things. For a creator, it's better to just not bother than to deal with jerks who accuse them as scam for giving something out, and the world is worse for it.
Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
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Sure but there's no way to offer any actual money in exchange.
You're right. IMO, there should be a "Download with your email OR pay $1 to access this file" option.
Offering a PDF/Ebook with good content (one hopes) in exchange for joining an email list is Lead Generation 101. The book is a runup to a paid course he is offering.
"Pay $1 to access this file" OR Sign up for email sends confusing signals to users. To the author, book is not worth $1, it is worth one email list signup. To the user, the book's value is entirely relative. They can offer up their email (positive value perception), or they can leave the site (zero value perception).
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Because it's exactly the kind of stuff the OP was complaining about.
I know what you mean, but like the poster, I have an aversion for all the hustle BS advice that I think is toxic. I'm curious to find out what part of my advice can be considered 'exactly the kind of stuff the OP was complaining about'? I truely believe that everything we create in life, which includes a new venture, can be viewed in the frame of self actualization. To me this means the motive to realize one's full p…
I'm not like the poster. I read your comment and I get some message that I think is helpful.
But there is no way I can be reasonably sure the message I got is the one you trying to convey, what means the post isn't clear (and in fact, I get a slightly different message from your answer). There is no indication on your post that the message is largely known to be true, or that it's opinion, or a hypothesis, I can't get how certain I must be of it. Overall I can't be sure that I'm just getting a message that fits my biases from noise, or if I am actually deriving meaning from the text.
Re: How to Acquire Your First 100 Customers
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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…
I just wanted to say thanks for responding :-) The resultant thread was quite interesting if nothing else. But I also appreciate the advice. I think it's really interesting how modes of communication can throw you (or at least me ;-) ). I seem to evaluate the content by the mode of communication, which is really incorrect. I suspect it was a coping mechanism I used when I was young to quickly sort the wheat from the…
No worries mate, I guess I just wanted to give you some encouragement and some philosophical ideas that have helped me.
If I could clarify what I mean by being unstoppable, I mean something like, 'your attitude, or mental frame, is critical to making the first step as much as it is to each step of your new venture journey'.
I personally believe, from the experiences gained on my own new venture journey, that barriers are opportunities for growth... but they can also be reasons you use for abandoning your journey. Ray Dalio has a good YouTube video that summarises his book 'Principles' in 30 minutes which illustrates this idea perfectly. I wholeheartedly recommend the video and the book.
As I mentioned before, I believe when you have that 'why' you'll naturally do what you must. My ultimate 'why' is simply to be the best version of myself. Everything I do needs to live up to that... so decision making in the moment becomes simple and compelling (occasionally I do mess up and grow).
All my other 'whys' are a ranked subset... which makes me think that even though you had a 'why' for your brewery, you actually had other more compelling 'whys' which basically overrode that particular 'why'.
However, there is no right or wrong answer to the direction of your life (assuming you don't initiate harm on others)... you must decide for yourself what you believe.
You can even say that 'whys' are just beliefs... and that we have a hierarchy of them that pre-programs us to a particular set of actions. Think of it like f(x) = y. I think if you can assess your beliefs you can also decide what you want them to be, and if you decide on their ranked order, you can program yourself to whatever success means to you.
As for finding a job to do at your new company... I define my 'job' as someone who looks after 'people'. In this context 'people' means myself, employees, clients and society (in that order). This then naturally leads me to ask, "Am I being the best version of myself as I look after people?"
This is an infinite game and one that I'll never be bored doing because there is always scope for improvement.
Anyhow just some throughs... all the best!