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Case Study - How a YC founder generated so many leads he had to temporarily turn off marketing
I recently had the pleasure of speaking with Sam Ross, the founder of Numeral Tax, about his experiences as a founder. He started out his career as a Growth Product Manager at Teespring, spent some time in growth at Airbnb, then leveraged his learnings to build and scale multiple ecommerce businesses to the tens of millions of dollars top line range. While scaling his ecommerce businesses, he...
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The 10 Essential Questions to Ask to Validate Your Product Idea
1. What problem are you currently facing in relation to [idea domain]?
2. How often do you encounter this problem?
3. Have you ever paid money to try and solve this problem?
4. How are you currently solving that problem?
5. What do you like and dislike about that solution?
6. If you could wave a magic wand and have the perfect solution to your problem, what would it look like?
7. *After...
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Hi Tonci! I've actually written two blog posts on this exact topic that you might find valuable (newsletter linked in my bio). One on general validation strategies and one on what questions to ask during user interviews to help you validate your product / idea.
Generally, at a high level I recommend trying to capture emails to help validate that there is demand for a solution:
1. building...
How and where would you validate your app/startup idea?
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The biggest one I've faced has been distribution. You can have an amazing product and no distribution and still fail to succeed because of it.
A great quote to illustrate this: "If you have gold bars but no distribution, they’re not worth anything"
What are some common challenges you have faced while pursuing business growth?
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The best way to attract investors to your startup is to not actually NEED investors for your startup.
Fundraising is really a sales process - you need to sell the investor on why they should invest. What is it that makes an investor want to give you money? The likelihood that they will make more money if they do. Best way to illustrate that is to not be in a position to "need" the money but to...
What's the best way to attract investors to your startup?
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I certainly have and I'm sure many other people here have as well. The way that I think about it is that the money I spent went to learning a valuable lesson -- It's incredibly important to validate a problem & product before you actually build the solution.
Apologies for the shameless plug, but I've written two articles on this topic that you might find...
Have you ever invested money in an app that never kicked off? How did it feel?
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Two things I have used it for that I've found highly productive:
(1) I've found a huge productivity boost for me around product design has been to speak stream of consciount into Apple Notes (speech to text) and describe what I am imagining from a design perspective, then taking that stream of conscious word vomit and putting it into GPT4 to organize and give structure to.
(2) I've pasted...
How do you utilize ChatGPT for Product Design?
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I want to feature your product in my newsletter for free
Hi builders!
My name is Ben Katz and I'm the founder of growthinclined.com, a newsletter that highlights tactical strategies for early-stage tech growth.
I have recently started writing articles for my newsletter interviewing founders and discussing their product growth, what has worked well for them, how they are growing, etc.
I'm looking to connect with more founders and potentially write...
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How to earn product of the week
Hey everyone,
I interviewed Sandra Djajic a few weeks back about what she did to make Klu succeed on Product Hunt and earn Product of the Week. I found the conversation quite insightful and wanted to share the key points with you all.
Klu, for those who aren't aware, is a tool that acts as your internal Google. It integrates with all of the tools you use on a daily basis, allowing you to...
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Congrats on the launch, excited to try Twinr!
Twinr 3.0
Convert any website to mobile apps in minutes
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bluf.ai is part of my day at at this point
What AI tool you can't spend your day without (exclude chatGPT, Midjourney)
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Looking at Google Trends data it looks like it's come down a tad but not significantly. Still incredibly high
Has the AI hype slowed down?
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Congrats on the launch! Amazing to see how much you have accomplished over the past few months. Talk about a pivot turning into an amazing product. Excited to see what comes next!
Pangea
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Congrats on the launch! Amazing to see how much you have accomplished over the past few months. Talk about a pivot turning into an amazing product.
Pangea
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Congrats on the launch, Adam! Been awesome to see how much you guys have accomplished over the past few months
Pangea
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This is awesome, nice work Bloks team!
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This is awesome, @sandradjajic! Been waiting for this day for weeks :)
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Love it! Great to see all that the bubbles team has accomplished. Well done and congrats on the launch
Bubbles for Teams
End live meeting fatigue with async video collaboration