Andrew E

Don't listen to haters and the naysayers. They are everywhere, especially in the VC community which knows the least about what will make a business successful as they only follow trends set by unicorns run by founders who knew better than to listen to the naysayers. Plan for 3 years of no salary. Plan to have horrible days and just work through them until they are over. Lean on friends and...

Thanks @michelepomposo for sharing. We took a bit more networking approach to it by inviting 10 friends/colleagues to review and critique an early wire frame for the design of www.Levelfields.ai, an investment research application that uses AI to break down the barriers to investment research. I asked every person initially interested to name and invite 5 other people and did one on one...

Hi everyone! We built an AI application that automatically alerts you to news events that are largely under the radar but always move stock prices so users can find companies doing well (or badly) in bull or bear markets. -------We wanted to bring the power and technology of a quantitative hedge fund to smaller investors to level the playing field. ------For $4/week, it finds and categorizes...

We created an application called Levelfields.ai that finds events that catalyze stock prices before they are widely known, but I was so busy building it, I didn't use it enough to make trades and generate more money. I made some profitable trades that I used to partially fund the company. I regret not setting it up to auto-trade for me as many of the events were yielding 15% per day and we...

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Only if you're doing content marketing that is not an overt pump of your product -- they tend to rip those to shreds publicly. I'd also be careful have metrics on users who do subscribe, as there are many on Reddit who will demand refunds 10s after signing up because they really couldn't afford it in the first place but curiosity got the better of them. It can make churn rates look poor so be...

Great work. This def. hits a core need. I'd be interested to understand how exactly people are identified and the accuracy rates.

very cute. nice to have some levity and connection these days when everyone is isolated. Not sure how it scales to larger teams but know in big workplaces where gatherings are 50 or more it would be a hit. Would integrate to MSFT teams and Zoom if you can given that's where a lot of people are already gathering.

What people are seeking e.g. capital, team members, feedback, etc What people are willing to provide e.g. testing, feedback, advisory board, intros Areas of expertise Areas of interest Exited/Not Exited previously Employment status: FT, PT, freelancer, Looking Favorite productivity tools Favorite building tools

It depends on the composition of the audience. I had a blog with 50K monthly uniques and launched a product, only to get a dozen subscriptions because the users didn't want to do they wanted to read. Matching what the audience is looking for to the coming product is the key and it's hard to do well without giving away for free too much of what you're about to sell.

1. The difficulty of finding cofounders who don't already have a business 2. The battle between building for now and building for the future 3. The amount of time that's wasted discussing things that don't matter 4. Just how many people don't get why anyone would do it, lol 5. The lack of VC reviews from vetted founders 6. The number of successful startups with incredibly basic products and no...

4) connector = when someone is responsible for making a product more viral/known

1)Heart= Info that's genuine, from the heart, such as describing real struggles/learnings 2)Double Diamond = expert level advice 3)Hand shake = Good samaritan, for helping others achieve their goals altruistically

Take my kids to a movie and the arcade. My youngest has NEVER been to a movie theatre. All he knows is COVID. It makes me so sad and I worry he'll be a germaphobe for life.

Thanks for pulling this together. It's a nice entry point. Can you add #seed deals/year? Some of these folks only do a few a year which makes it a low probability pitch.

Thanks for sharing. I'd be interested in hearing more about what specifically were the game changing decisions/feedback. I think #2 is critical. Most people believe you get what you pay for, so if you charge 0, that's about what is expected and is something is amiss with the value or feature set you deliver, will they let you know? Unlikely, PH community aside. You also won't get churn from...

Where to focus efforts - divide into 5 projects or do one at a time. Where to focus time: oversee and manage work or DIY. Where to spend money: marketing or tech.