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Don't listen to haters and the naysayers. They are everywhere, especially in the VC community which knows the least about what will make a business successful as they only follow trends set by unicorns run by founders who knew better than to listen to the naysayers. Plan for 3 years of no salary. Plan to have horrible days and just work through them until they are over. Lean on friends and...

Thanks @michelepomposo for sharing. We took a bit more networking approach to it by inviting 10 friends/colleagues to review and critique an early wire frame for the design of www.Levelfields.ai, an investment research application that uses AI to break down the barriers to investment research. I asked every person initially interested to name and invite 5 other people and did one on one...

Hi everyone! We built an AI application that automatically alerts you to news events that are largely under the radar but always move stock prices so users can find companies doing well (or badly) in bull or bear markets. -------We wanted to bring the power and technology of a quantitative hedge fund to smaller investors to level the playing field. ------For $4/week, it finds and...

We created an application called Levelfields.ai that finds events that catalyze stock prices before they are widely known, but I was so busy building it, I didn't use it enough to make trades and generate more money. I made some profitable trades that I used to partially fund the company. I regret not setting it up to auto-trade for me as many of the events were yielding 15% per day and we...

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Only if you're doing content marketing that is not an overt pump of your product -- they tend to rip those to shreds publicly. I'd also be careful have metrics on users who do subscribe, as there are many on Reddit who will demand refunds 10s after signing up because they really couldn't afford it in the first place but curiosity got the better of them. It can make churn rates look poor so be...

Obvi - The Startup

Klavio. Layouts are clunky but the ability to use one template for multiple audiences and still have it customized to each group is useful. We use to create a cadence of emails spread out over x days in between. I'm sure there are ways to do more advanced behavioral marketing but we haven't cracked that nut yet.

Great work. This def. hits a core need. I'd be interested to understand how exactly people are identified and the accuracy rates.

very cute. nice to have some levity and connection these days when everyone is isolated. Not sure how it scales to larger teams but know in big workplaces where gatherings are 50 or more it would be a hit. Would integrate to MSFT teams and Zoom if you can given that's where a lot of people are already gathering.

Break down tasks in $10/hr tasks, $50/hr tasks, $100 tasks, and $1000/hr tasks. Outsource anything under a $100/hr task. Build up a community of users prior to launching anything Raise 3x the money than you think you'll need Plan for 3 years of no salary Exercise more Choose partners who are experienced in the field you want to go into Follow the sales. The first version should address the...

What people are seeking e.g. capital, team members, feedback, etc What people are willing to provide e.g. testing, feedback, advisory board, intros Areas of expertise Areas of interest Exited/Not Exited previously Employment status: FT, PT, freelancer, Looking Favorite productivity tools Favorite building tools

Thanks for the info. A few questions for you and the group: What percent of freemium did you convert? How many weeks did it take to convert them? How did you get feedback on what users didn't like, assuming the ones that did not like it just left? What was your most important acquisition channel/tactic?

It isn't and it's never been. Time is money so $6 in tolls in exchange for not sitting in traffic is a cheap investment. Help me find a park along the way for the kids to play, or the right restaurant along the route, and you have my attention.

It depends on the composition of the audience. I had a blog with 50K monthly uniques and launched a product, only to get a dozen subscriptions because the users didn't want to do they wanted to read. Matching what the audience is looking for to the coming product is the key and it's hard to do well without giving away for free too much of what you're about to sell.

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I think it's fine but will likely be hard unless you find a project that's similar and look to merge the efforts. Most folks here have projects they are working on.