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Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences: Forcing a choice: how companies get you to pay more
http://grow-a-set.blogspot.com/2015/06/forcing-choice-how-companies-get-you-to.html
Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences. There's nothing like starting a company to learn how to start a company. This blog is intended for the 99.9% of us who aren't high-tech startups funded by VCs. Saturday, June 6, 2015. Forcing a choice: how companies get you to pay more. You are on the receiving end of this trick which, despite being an old trick, has been verified by recent behavioural research in economics. Telco B offers an unlimited bundle, which I haven’t listed here, as they use some n...
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Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences: Maslow's Hiearchy of Needs - Are We Getting It Wrong?
http://grow-a-set.blogspot.com/2015/01/maslows-hiearchy-of-needs-are-we.html
Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences. There's nothing like starting a company to learn how to start a company. This blog is intended for the 99.9% of us who aren't high-tech startups funded by VCs. Thursday, January 29, 2015. Maslow's Hiearchy of Needs - Are We Getting It Wrong? We all hear about Maslow’s hierarchy of needs. According to the hierarchy. The common understanding we all have is that you can’t have any of the higher layers of the hierarchy until you have the lower layers. A musician or a...
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Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences: Your customers are rational…. Just not the way you think they are.
http://grow-a-set.blogspot.com/2015/04/your-customers-are-rational-just-not.html
Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences. There's nothing like starting a company to learn how to start a company. This blog is intended for the 99.9% of us who aren't high-tech startups funded by VCs. Saturday, April 18, 2015. Your customers are rational…. Just not the way you think they are. Recently I have been enjoying reading The Logic of Life. 1) As a first pass, price is important. Are you overpriced? Is your pricing structure too complicated? No rational company will run the same system in comple...
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Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences: Apps are disposable– embrace it
http://grow-a-set.blogspot.com/2015/08/apps-are-disposable-embrace-it.html
Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences. There's nothing like starting a company to learn how to start a company. This blog is intended for the 99.9% of us who aren't high-tech startups funded by VCs. Friday, August 14, 2015. Apps are disposable– embrace it. How often do you use an app for? I would like to challenge you all to consider apps as disposable items, and when you accept this you can build a more sustainable business model for yourself and your company. The odds are really shit. Accept that pe...
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Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences: The limits of the sharing economy and on-demand services
http://grow-a-set.blogspot.com/2015/08/the-limits-of-sharing-economy-and-on.html
Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences. There's nothing like starting a company to learn how to start a company. This blog is intended for the 99.9% of us who aren't high-tech startups funded by VCs. Sunday, August 2, 2015. The limits of the sharing economy and on-demand services. For a while now, I have had the opinion that many of these businesses, while a great idea, are sooner or later going to hit the wall of established human behaviour and existing business practices. Which in case you don’...
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Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences: Passion comes from experience
http://grow-a-set.blogspot.com/2015/02/passion-comes-from-experience.html
Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences. There's nothing like starting a company to learn how to start a company. This blog is intended for the 99.9% of us who aren't high-tech startups funded by VCs. Thursday, February 5, 2015. Passion comes from experience. If we all followed our passions when we were 20 years old, we’d all be musicians, actors, bartenders, artists, professional surfers, baristas and fashion designers. Many of the large companies that hold up as examples about had founders who had bee...
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Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences: Are we over ‘Authentic’ yet?
http://grow-a-set.blogspot.com/2015/01/are-we-over-authentic-yet.html
Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences. There's nothing like starting a company to learn how to start a company. This blog is intended for the 99.9% of us who aren't high-tech startups funded by VCs. Tuesday, January 13, 2015. Are we over ‘Authentic’ yet? Authentic means all the good things, such as genuine, done with passion, original, and not taking short-cuts. I’m a big fan of cafes where the coffee and food have been made with an obsessive attention to getting the product just right. And ...On the ...
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Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences: Identifying True Grit In A Startup Founder
http://grow-a-set.blogspot.com/2015/05/identifying-true-grit-in-startup-founder.html
Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences. There's nothing like starting a company to learn how to start a company. This blog is intended for the 99.9% of us who aren't high-tech startups funded by VCs. Tuesday, May 26, 2015. Identifying True Grit In A Startup Founder. 8220; If you are going through hell, keep going. 8221; – Winston S. Churchill. Jessica was compressed – and clearly suffering from the adrenal exhaustion that comes from 10 cups of coffee a day for weeks at a time. I have met triathletes an...
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Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences: Your data is your memory - we need to make it searchable
http://grow-a-set.blogspot.com/2014/08/your-data-is-your-memory-we-need-to.html
Grow a Set - Sharing Startup Experiences. There's nothing like starting a company to learn how to start a company. This blog is intended for the 99.9% of us who aren't high-tech startups funded by VCs. Wednesday, August 20, 2014. Your data is your memory - we need to make it searchable. My memory is no longer solely in my brain, or written down on paper – it is almost entirely digital. My underlying idea here is simple: humans mostly think in terms of relationships between data points, we don’t thi...