I was very disappointed with the How to Build the Future series. Particularly, the interview with Elon Musk. The quality of the questions was mediocre at best.
And the podcasts are just about showcasing YC companies. As an entrepreneur, I basically got zero value from these.
PG should write more essays. Whenever one of them came out, I dropped whatever I was doing to read them.
I updated using gem update and got the latest 3.35.1.
But then when I updated heroku gem, I got the deprecation warning...
! The `heroku` gem has been deprecated and replaced with the Heroku Toolbelt.
! Download and install from: https://toolbelt.heroku.com
! For API access, see: https://github.com/heroku/heroku.rb
Just downloaded the book! Thanks for making it free. You are very generous!
I am looking to build a quick and dirty prototype for Tinder for X, and this is a great starting point for me. Thanks Nick!
I am curious to see how you guys decided to go after this space. For me, I started ContentDJ through an attempt at growth hacking on Twitter. Through a script I developed back in 2011, I was able to retweet trending content and grow my followers by about 1K per month. It turned into a viable growth channel for the startup I was working on at the time. So, I made the pivot and build ContentDJ (http://a.contentdj.com/1nrbICq).
As an interesting anecdote, last year, two product managers from Buddy Media signed up. Through Mixpanel, I found that they were particularly interested in my social media editorial calendar feature (http://a.contentdj.com/1lOiRWD). Surely enough, just last month, Salesforce announced their Marketing Cloud with a very similar content calendar in it. Unfortunately we now live in a world where multi-billion dollar public company steals from a one-man bootstrapped startup...
The philosophy has been mostly to create a profitable company, in the more traditional sense-- consistent revenue that can employ people.
- I share with this philosophy exactly.
The thing I am pointing out is that because of the VC gap, startups are dealing with the lack of cash infusion to really hit a homerun. As a result, Canadian tech companies stall after growing to a certain size. The options were taking VC money with bad terms or getting bought by US companies.
US companies are buying profitable Canadian businesses at a bargain price, reaping all the benefits of job creation and ambitious business goals.
Actually, I was not even raising money. I just had coffee with one of them without knowing they were investors.
I haven't talked to any investors other than that. Just been focusing on building the startup. I will take on your offer for later though. My email is jerry-at-contentdj-dot-com. What's a good way to reach you?
- In this scenario, the company slowly accumulates B and C players who drag down the company's reputation: death by a thousand paper cuts. The company doesn't _die_ outright, but everyone just thinks, "Oh, not a Silicon Valley level company."
Interestingly, you just described what happened to RIM.
"A startup in Canada means going for profitability very quickly, and being doomed to a slow-growth strategy, as large chunks of cash are nowhere to be found."
- This is dead on! That's for sharing!
If you think about the technology adoption lifecycle, you not only need a concentration of people, but more importantly a concentration of early adopters. So, from that perspective, you can see why a lot of B2C apps come out of Silicon Valley. People live and breath new things there.
But that's just one aspect of what makes Silicon Valley unique.
When it comes to B2B, you don't really need a concentration of early adopters to make this work. You need to solve problems for businesses (doesn't really matter where they are). More importantly, you can see revenue right away if you ARE solving a real problem. I think that's why it's relatively easier to build a B2B startup outside of the valley.
I was very disappointed with the How to Build the Future series. Particularly, the interview with Elon Musk. The quality of the questions was mediocre at best.
And the podcasts are just about showcasing YC companies. As an entrepreneur, I basically got zero value from these.
PG should write more essays. Whenever one of them came out, I dropped whatever I was doing to read them.