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Social entrepreneur working to break down barriers to investing so everyone has equitable opportunity to create wealth. Epidemiologist turned technologist. ex-Georgetown Faculty
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If the Pandemic ended right now, what's the first thing you would do?
Stepping into 2021 there is some optimism that things might start going back to normal to some point and I'm curious what's the first thing you would do if everyone went back to normal right now? For me, I'd probably just go to a restaurant. I miss dining out so much
Takeaways on building a SaaS (bootstrap, 230k users, x2.5 YoY)
I shared my experience, as well as what our team has learned while product development: Saas, bootstrap, no VC, 4 years, 230k users, x2.5 YoY, team 5 21, Productivity & Design tool (B2B + B2C2B). I've put together 10 particularly important things to think about at the start: 1/ Freemium is a must 2/ Onboarding is your infinite point of growth 3/ Paid traffic at launch leads to the wrong place 4/ Design will be even more important in 2022 5/ Launch priority is retention, not revenue 5/ Talk to users every day 6/ Don t be afraid to ask people to test your product 7/ Start social & communications asap, even before launch 8/ Support is very very very important. The fast one is a game-changer 9/ Do in-house-only product marketing 10/ Develop an A/B testing system from the beginning ( flag-function ) All the details are in the extended Medium post: https://medium.com/flowmapp-plg/... I hope these will be useful for makers!
How do you keep going when the going gets tough
Every founder feels a sense of discouragement at one point or another in their journey. What do you do to find the motivation to keep pushing and believing in your work when the odds are not always on your side and the results are not up to expectations?