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Amrani Yasser
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7mo ago
Is solving your "own problems" the best way to build a product?
... stuff I'd bought her from iHerb), and three had overlapping zinc, two had absorption conflicts. That's the "own problem" angle I needed this for someone in my own family. But what made it a viable product (
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. a one-time spreadsheet) was observation: I noticed millions of people in Korea + the US do international supplement stacking and no app indexes both databases. The personal frustration showed me the problem; observing the broader pattern showed me the market. Pure ... ... 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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p/general
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Nika
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7mo 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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Nika
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12mo ago
How did the smartest person from your class/school end up? (Success/Fail stories)
... Hunt.) Comment from Tetiana(@tetianai): @abod_rehman sad, but true) 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
flipside
, some unsuspecting/unconventional C avg or even dropouts ended up starting their own businesses and companies and are thriving. I guess it also depends on your philosophy on what success is - the dropouts are doing well entrepreneurially. The top students ... ... 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
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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?
... Hunter Barry(@hunter_barry): We had a cheap work in progress domain while we had most of the product built and then continued the (protracted and frustrating) process of negotiating for the domain we wanted. We started with www.health-studio.ai
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the current www.healthstudio.com we acquired months later. We redirected the old site once we had the new domain Comment from Brad Simon(@coder_b): I want to make sure I can have a matching domain and company name. It would ... ... product first, and then find a name for it. Just like everything else, cook the food first, open a resto, name the resto. Have a kid, name it after. Same :D Comment from Keesan(@keesan12): Hot take: domain
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