Startup Advice
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Startup Advice
To help you make it through the darkness, here’s a series of concrete actions you can take today to try to turn things around:
- Talk to more users (actually do it)
- Change your target audience/ICP
- Change your positioning/messaging/pitch
- Try a “kickstarter” to get the word out
- Find something that is working and pivot fully to that
- Give it a bit more time
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Lenny Rachitsky • What to Do if Your Product Isn’t Taking Off
Projects rarely unfold in a linear fashion; they require frequent course correction. Most trainees should spend more time on a project’s decision tree than they currently do. Once you get into a project, you will have learned from your initial experiments, new papers will have been published, and technology will have advanced. As a result, at any... See more
Problem choice and decision trees in science and engineering: Cell
Engineer Wei Dai on reinventing yourself:
"Once you achieve high status, a part of your mind makes you lose interest in the thing that you achieved high status with in the first place. You might feel obligated to maintain an appearance of interest, and defend your position from time to time, but you no longer feel a burning need to know the truth.
One solution that might work (and I think has worked for me, although I didn't consciously choose it) is to periodically start over. Once you've achieved recognition in some area, and no longer have as much interest in it as you used to, go into a different community focused on a different topic, and start over from a low-status (or at least not very high status) position."
Who owns research?
That depends on the type of research. Marketing often owns marketing or market research. Makes sense, right? This might be qual or quant research that helps Marketers do their jobs well.
Who owns CX, UX, user, customer, or “design” research? I would have to say that your CX or UX Researchers own it. Perhaps your Service Designers,... See more
That depends on the type of research. Marketing often owns marketing or market research. Makes sense, right? This might be qual or quant research that helps Marketers do their jobs well.
Who owns CX, UX, user, customer, or “design” research? I would have to say that your CX or UX Researchers own it. Perhaps your Service Designers,... See more
Debbie Levitt • Who “Owns” Research?
“Everyone bifurcates the world into content and distribution,” Whaley told me. He has brown hair, is of average height, and was wearing a nondescript gray t-shirt and jeans when we talked. “From the beginning, we viewed those as the same thing. Each object gets better with more participation, and so does MSCHF. Scale is not the goal. Scale is a... See more
