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How to Find CoFounders

1 guy has contacted me through  founder2be.com . I have contacted some crowd-sourcing services. You could post on angel  list.co  as well.  Put what you are looking for on elance and "co- founder hire" whom ever applies for the job.  - with revenue and advertising they may find you.  I'm doing a " how to find an investor" course on  udemy.com  that is helpful as well.

Free tools to Take over The Entire Web

well, here you go - https://www.quora.com/What-are-the-free-or-close-to-free-resources-for-entrepreneurs

How to Build, Measure, and Learn by Robert Johnson Early Stage Start Up Validation

What can you do in early stage business in order to hedge against failure? Human beings are exceptionally good at creating cognitive biases.  Entrepreneurs are exceptionally good at only looking at the things that confirm their bias vs. challenging it.  #1 reason for failure is confirmation bias. - extract negative feedback.  Build - Measure - Learn : Look at scientific method approach.  Everything is an assumption Which assumption, if wrong, would kill my business.  Identify the largest risks Build experiments to test those risks Lean and Improve, or Iterate 3 Largest Risks The problem is actually real - make sure you are solving a REAL problem.  People actually care about your solution.  How is my solution 10X better than the existing solution. This will help you change human behavior.  The numbers work to make it profitable.  Minimum Viable Product.  What is the easiest, smallest technology, or best thing to do to test your idea. Concierge MVP

How to give your money to The Dark Side Star Wars

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Lessons Learned on Surveys

  1. People will help if you ask correctly 2. People will offer great insight into their pains and needs if the right questions are asked 3. This can be a great prospecting and list building process 4. There are better survey tools available for surveys than Survey Monkey People like helping other people. Especially when they get to share their expertise. However, they have many things competing for their time so you must keep this in mind when designing a survey. Keep the survey short and to the point. Tell them up front that this is a short 1 page survey with only 5 questions and that it should only take them 2 minutes to complete. If your purpose is noble and if you have something to offer them in return, you will get better results. To help with c onversions, the top of the survey told the person viewing the page what we are trying to accomplish and what we will give them in return . Notice how I am coming at it from their perspective. Thanks for

How to ultimate list of customer development questions

 Problem Discovery Questions to validate your hypothesis about a problem, or to learn about problems. What’s the hardest part of your day? What are some unmet needs you have? What product do you wish you had that doesn’t exist yet? What tasks take up the most time in your day? What could be done to improve your experience with [process/role]? What’s the hardest part about being a [demographic]? What are your biggest/most important professional responsibilities/goals? What are your biggest/most important personal responsibilities/goals? Problem Validation If your customer did not talk about the problem you wanted to address, use the below questions to begin validating/invalidating that your customer has the problem you think they have. In addition, it’s often not enough to just solve a problem, sometimes it also needs to be one that people are highly motivated to solve. Some of the below questions can help with that too. Do you find it hard to [process/problem]? How

Customer Research Revisions lessons learned

Break up kit customer research - Too many questions and things customers don't want (not relevant) 2. Some people have figured this out. There are some better questions to ask on Quora and fro start ups that are successful.3. compile a list of Q's from web, Quora to know what customers want.  -  Some of them, less of me." 1. How did you get over your last break up? (most don't know. Some never did. Some have never been through one) /books 2. What soothing and relaxing products do you use? music/alcohol/  3. How much did the products help? 4. What's your best example of thriving after a negative event in your life? 5. What was the best gift item received from your brother or sister? 6. What was the best gift item received from your mother / father? 7.  What was the best gift item received from your family friend? 8. What was the best gift item received from your grand parent? 9. What hobby got you through a break up? 10. Would you rent a pet? 11. What video