How to Succeed with a Startup [video] • Hacker News Board

Re: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]

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Post by tim333 » Thu, Aug 30, 2018, 4:51 PM UTC

tonyedgecombe wrote: post #80

tim333 wrote: post #79

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Any source on the 30 year thing? They already have test cars driving around with no one in the front seat ( https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=jPfC9Yfsjd8&t=2m40s ) and it seems there will be both intense competition to grab market share and also a push from regulators to reduce the present 1.25 million road deaths per year.

https://spectrum.ieee.org/cars-that-think/transportation/sel...

Ta for the link though that talk was over two years ago and things have moved on. Personally I'd be surprised if it took that long.

Re: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]

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Post by gfodor » Sat, Sep 01, 2018, 9:49 PM UTC

mattnewport wrote: post #64

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Fair point I did not consider VR collaboration and idea incubation for enterprise level applications, where details have a higher priority. My only counter argument to VR chat for enterprise level applications is four fold: 1. Its synchronous, like any conference call. Async is still going to be the main form of communication (Slack, git issues, email, etc). Synchronous communication has a higher weighting on just co…

I think as a fully remote company doing VR development we're "living in the future" a bit. It's a possible if not inevitable future at least. We use a mix of technologies to enable a remote team working across multiple time zones, some synchronous and some asynchronous: Slack, Zoom, email, Confluence, Jira, GitHub, Google Docs, Dropbox, etc. We also make use of VR: Rec Room, Bigscreen, multi user functionality in our…

Hi there, I work on Hubs at Mozilla and I'd def love to see if you'd be up for seeing how it works for you. You can hit me up at gfodor at mozilla.com. Hubs is here:

https://hubs.mozilla.com

Re: How to Succeed with a Startup [video]

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Post by enos_feedler » Sun, Sep 02, 2018, 12:08 AM UTC

rexreed wrote: post #47

enos_feedler wrote: post #44

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How is 1) more broadly applicable? Nobody wants to pay money for anything. Perhaps you could say _would_ pay money for if they had to. Even still, the world of internet users has been trained to get a lot of great valuable things for free (Google, facebook and virtually every other consumer service) so their willingness to pay is skewed heavily towards free

In those cases, the user is not the customer. The old saying goes, if you're not the customer, you're the product. Google, FB and the like monetize users through advertising. The product is not Gmail or Facebook. It's advertising to their audience. You are the audience. Advertising is the product. And so the broadly applicable advice is still relevant. But you know this. In that light, ask the question - who is the c…

Who said anything about customer? Your advice is to build something that people will pay money for. My point is you can build something where users come first, and perhaps the "customers" don't show up until later. You can have great product metrics before you have a single customer. In many cases you can't even serve the customer before you have great product metrics. And I think startup founders should always be thinking of building the next Google or Facebook? It is sad to think otherwise