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“ Reproduction in the age of COVID-19 lockdowns ”
Haha! You joke, but there are concerns that COVID-19 might affect male fertility (we are running a study to test this). So it's not the craziest idea to think about preserving your fertility during a global pandemic...
This might seem overtly politically correct and I'm actually a bit surprised in myself for saying this, but have you considered changing instances of male/men to just generic families? (e.g., We help families have children vs we help men become fathers). I will state up front, I'm not trying to police language, just pointing out that deciding specific keywords up front affects how people find your business online or…
Hey - this is one of the best-articulated responses I've read around this topic, so first of all, thank you. I take it to heart and have shared it with the full team, because it's important are actively thinking about this. I am really sorry to hear about your past experience at a fertility clinic. One of the many reasons we are offering an at-home solution is for this exact purpose... performing such a personal proc…
Thinking about the types of people who would be interested in your service, I would lean hard into serving the trans community specifically. I can't think of a better way to demonstrate trust than being archivist of choice for people who are planning to stop making sperm.
I'm a potential customer, and I'd like to treat this as any data storage company- because that's what this is, a genetic data storage company. One of the things I find annoying about existing companies is that I can't see how my data is doing. For digital data, I can monitor to see how my data is doing, but all I know about existing companies is that they will tell me if something fails. I'd like to see live monitori…
That's a great question, and one where keeping everything cool is important in both cases. We get a lot of monitoring information, both on the way to the cryostorage facilities (everything from humidity to temperature variance to battery level of our trackers), and we similarly get daily or weekly checks of the frozen sperm (like manually checking on levels of liquid nitrogen). We hadn't considered making this inform…
To me the name "legacy" is a huge turnoff, big enough that I probably won't use your service. Maybe it's just me though!
Are you actually their marginal customer though -- as in are you going to buy one of their competitors with high chance? If so, then can you talk about which names you like more and they can do better. If you weren't in the market to begin with, then it might not matter for them.
A couple of points from sexual and reproductive ethics, though by no means exhaustive. First, we are not owed children. No one has the right to a child. Children are human beings, thus persons, not property. IVF commoditizes human life. The result is an assault on human dignity. If anything, the child has certain rights that the parent owes the child in this regard, among them the right to be conceived by parents who…
I am a registered sperm donor at a fertility clinic in Amsterdam. I've long been interested in topics surrounding fertility and reproduction. Let me know if you want me to betatest your service.
IME, it takes about 3 weeks of consistent effort to get one's swimmers to go away. Maybe you know what is it about "3 weeks" in the spermatogenesis process?
[0] https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Heat-based_contraception
(edit IMO -> IME)
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Alright. So I go to the clinic and check in with my wife. They take her off to get ready to "receive the sample". A few minutes later they call me up to the desk. The nurse looks at me, pulls something out of the desk, hands it to me with a cup, at tells me to go to room two. To clarify, since it's relevant, I'm a white guy, my wife is Asian, and the nurse that checked me in is Black. What she handed me was a porn DV…
> Attach to the wifi and... all the porn sites are blocked. This cracked me up.
When you think about it he also bounced the sperm through the clinic.
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Yes, of course! I'll edit it shortly. We're live across the United States, and actively working on international expansion to Canada, Europe (via Geneva & London), and the Middle East (via Dubai).
You should consider Asia as well. For example, Singapore would be a great demographic fit for this kind of product: - low-birth rate - high education - high per capita income