Billy is an asshole for deceiving people and breaking the SW rules of no preworked ideas allowed.
Bobby is an asshole for joining a SW with the wrong motivation and breaking the SW rule of no pre-formed teams (and proceeding to whine about being snubbed without any form of self-reflection in the process).
The SW organisers and the facilitator are assholes for breaking the clear SW rule of no cash prizes allowed - ever.
TL;DR PayPal Germany seems to have sent mass-emails claiming German customers have won 500,- EUR when they have in fact not. Kaspersky Labs have verified emails as legit, coming from PayPal.
German law basically dictates that if you tell someone they won a prize, you have to give them that prize, no ifs or buts:
§ 661a Gewinnzusagen
Ein Unternehmer, der Gewinnzusagen oder vergleichbare Mitteilungen an Verbraucher sendet und durch die Gestaltung dieser Zusendungen den Eindruck erweckt, dass der Verbraucher einen Preis gewonnen hat, hat dem Verbraucher diesen Preis zu leisten.
There were hype in spades leading up to the iPhone launch, though. And it is not like it was revolutionary in any other way than that it changed the business model of media and mobile phones previously in favor and control of the telcos to one in favor and control of Apple.
Interesting idea. I've experimented with putting non-functional buttons and widgets in the app and register how many tap on them versus how many who complain about it not working. I believe you also have to ask the data, not just the people.
Great insights! I guess I'm no different in that I'm probably going to be pivoting after more real market exposure and feedback. I just want to go faster forwards and believe more radical transparency will help me with that.
Sure, if you're in the US. I'm in the EU trenches and I can tell you that there are a lot of parties like it's still 2005 over here. (edit: plural grammar error)
I see it this way: The higher frequency of exposure, the larger the sampling pool, the more noise AND the more opportunity to spot a recurring signal in that noise. If you keep your sampling pool low, how will you separate noise from signal?
When you say"support clients", I assume people already paying for what your startup is offering? For clarity, I'm explicitly talking about sharing for pre-product-market fit, pre-validated business model startups. (edit: sloppy fingers)
Billy is an asshole for deceiving people and breaking the SW rules of no preworked ideas allowed.
Bobby is an asshole for joining a SW with the wrong motivation and breaking the SW rule of no pre-formed teams (and proceeding to whine about being snubbed without any form of self-reflection in the process).
The SW organisers and the facilitator are assholes for breaking the clear SW rule of no cash prizes allowed - ever.