As the hustler half of the classic hustler / hacker startup team, I’ve employed all of these email tactics to line up an incredible number of high caliber meetings over the past month. The key is to warm up your cold emails. Here’s how.
If you want to test your hypothesis and develop customers before writing a single line of product code, you’ll have to get out of your workspace and in front of real people who have real problems that your startup could potentially solve.
How often do you voluntarily see a movie that only earned one or two stars? Would you ever buy a new vacuum cleaner or coffeemaker that received a barrage of.
While smartphones abound, apps are flooding the technology and social media gates. There are apps to pass your time, document your time—in an array of eye-pleasing filters, of course—and save.
Ok everyone, I’ll admit it. I used to be a wantrepreneur. A wantrepreneur is someone who attends all of the startup events, meetups, and participates in online discussions about entrepreneurship without actually being an entrepreneur.
The concept of digital learning is taking over political discussions about education, and startups are rushing to fill the gap.
What came first, the chicken or the egg? If you are running a consumer-facing startup, the answer has to be both.
I’m writing this on a Saturday night at 11:00pm at a coffeeshop in the southeast neighborhood of Portland, Oregon. It’s open 24 hours a day, it serves great lattes, and organic food, and the wifi is free. Oh yeah, it’s also packed with people working on something important.
When you hang out in the startup scene, it feels unnatural to have a conversation with someone who doesn’t have a smooth silver screen propped up between the two of you. I’ve found that shutting off my computer and getting out into the world to talk to potential customers has been the best business moves I have made recently.
Members of the Young Entrepreneur Council answer the question, “What advice would you give an entrepreneur who wants to use a high-tech offering to improve a traditionally low-tech industry?”
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