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Nika
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5mo ago
Build your brand before your product, or launch first and reveal yourself later?
... eigenst ndige Pr senz wirken kann, ist https://der-arkadenhof.at/ . Comment from YekSoon Lok(@ys_askodin): Having operated on both sides of the table as an allocator and a founder, I view this through a different lens. The binary of "personal brand
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. product" is a distraction. The actual prerequisite is Thesis and Positioning . At askOdin, before we wrote a single line of code for our Deterministic Compiler, we established the exact taxonomy of the market. We identified that the last mile ... ... there's probably nothing more efficient than a founder led audience. You're borrowing trust you haven't earned yet as a brand, and that shortcut can be the difference between getting your first 100 users in a week
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p/prodshort
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Amrani Yasser
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5mo ago
Is solving your "own problems" the best way to build a product?
... Background: I was structuring renewable energy deals at rsted (project finance side of M&A and partnerships), and every new transaction started with the same painful ritual pulling together a project finance model with DSCR sculpting, DSRA, construction-
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-operations phase logic, sensitivity packaging, lender-grade outputs. Each time, the public templates online were too generic to use without an architectural rebuild, and the deal-tested ones inside any given firm sit behind NDAs and don't follow ... ... audience of one. Founders are unusual users almost by definition. The polls and conversations don't replace your own intuition, but they keep it honest and you find out pretty quickly which problems people will actually pay to solve
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Nika
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10mo ago
How did the smartest person from your class/school end up? (Success/Fail stories)
... point. school rewards the followers while thinkers are menace to the society, that is why knowledge is dangerous for those who are in possession of power. They are scared of people making systems eventually making them as
competitors
. Comment from Tetiana(@tetianai): @abod_rehman sad, but true) Comment from Tetiana(@tetianai): @busmark_w_nika Yes :D But I didn t study everything out of pure interest - a lot of it was because I felt a sense of responsibility ... ... more than the path people imagined for him back then. Comment from Ryan Valenzuela(@rvalenz): The top students from both high school and college ended up taking careers and going through the job ladder within companies. On the
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p/producthunt
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Aaron O'Leary
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1yr ago
✅ POLL: Do you buy the domain first or build the product first?
... type of company or product? Comment from Jamie(@codeandconsciousness): I buy the domain about half way thru the project, when I think it's viable and not at risk of being abandoned. Now there are plenty of
alternative
TLDs, so if the .com get's snatched can pickup the .app, or .io, .ai or whatever. Comment from Ren Wang(@rivertwilight): Domain first. - Great domain brings better impression: like detaildesign.com
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