email me at reechaurd@gmail.com
http://www.forbes.com/sites/alexkonrad/2013/11/26/one-startup-tried-every-marketing-ploy-from-ellen-to-twitter-heres-what-worked/
anything else that has a consumer facing side that's quick to launch and has an interesting feature (must have virality component e.g. selling sex, communication, or inherently a group activity).
if it takes starts to take off i have access to a decent amount of business/fundraising/even celebrity type connections that can help us out along the way. not set on anything. just want to see if anyone is interested.
honest opinion/feedback would be appreciated. i want to know what i can do to make it better.
www.reppio.com
www.reppio.com
We just launched today so please let me know what you think about the site design and user experience. I'm a business guy that created every page of the site with powerpoint...
I have a pretty competent team building out the product for our local social commerce concept and we're on our way to raising angel funding (we've already had a seed round), but my CTO is overseas. He's a family friend with 6 years of RoR experience and he has been awesome to us, but right now we're running into some visa issues...
He may not PHYSICALLY be with us for a bit but can continue to work.
During the initial meetings, a lot of investors asked if we can try to hire someone from the U.S. as another technical co-founder or to maybe even replace the CTO. No one is worried about the business side because we're pretty stacked on that end.
Any thoughts on best way to go about this? What are the best sources to recruit a potential replacement CTO / another technical co-founder with potential to become the CTO?
Anyone interested? (haha. figured it wouldn't hurt to ask). Any help or advice from the hacker news community would be very much appreciated!
1) what happens when i get it wet? 2) what happens when it gets lost or i get drunk and leave it at a bar and they don't have it (have to call 10 credit card companies up) 3) what happens if i lose it abroad or traveling (now i'm fkd) 4) what happens when the entire concept of credit card is going to go away (5-10 years)?
all of this leads to i must still carry multiple cards or there will be a new technology that will displace the credit card all together. diversification has negative but also have advantages.
in terms of execution, i'm also not sure if timing was correct. it says that i can't receive it until next summer. if that's true and knowing that they are not the first and only player in its market (others with sufficient funding) are also present, why can't others beat them to market with their own product. you just validated to the entire world there is demand. now having said that there may be multiple winners out of this but first to market has huge advantages.
what i think they should have done is use an exclusivity approach to propel brand reach and get people to sign up. due to its battery expiration, it's at the end of the day, a subscription model. meaning why not do the dual referring credit either for first in line (bump up in status), dollars off purchase? proliferation is more important than monetization at this point.
thoughts?
i understand the upside of this platform but this appears to be a classic scenario where fb fked itself by paying too much of a premium to acquire instagram and then naturally, the market re-set that acquisition as a precedent premium to apply for subsequent acquisitions. now fb has to set a premium to that premium since their own internal crappy tools like poke and chat aren't working in their favor and they've shown their cards.
if you think about it... something smells fishy. fb was valued at 100bn for fb. now people will realize that it has to make over-priced acquisitions just to stay competitive in its own market that it created, not to propel growth and valuation from when it ipo'd.
chasing deals is what happened to the private equity markets back in '05 - '07 and look what happened. as for snapchat, assuming rev. to be similar to other platforms in its space is a mistake; other platforms are based on "social graphing / data" whereas snapchat is based on "deletion of data." moreover, the expectation that the engagement rates will continue is asinine - easy pickings of core users have already been had and incremental users will only lower engagement, not increase engagement. plus, at some point the fad nature will run its course and fatigue will sink in for many (e.g. groupons to omgpop - who the fk still plays that game).
i hope i'm proven wrong, but i wished the lemming investors and fb was a bit more level-headed instead of putting the entire start-up industry in jeopardy.
thoughts?
i almost shit in my pants laughing reading this review.
