23 4 / 2012
5 Learnings from 30 days in a Suburban Office Park
Six months ago I was doing cold-calls and out-side sales from a 2nd and Mission office because the VC backed company I co-founded was working to acquire customers for our SMB hiring platform.
Six months later, I have left the company and taken over an small self-help business and am finishing my last day of working in a suburban office park 20 miles north of San Francisco in Terra Linda, CA.
So in 6 months, I went from trying to figure out how SMB owners thought and acted to becoming an SMB owner myself.
This process has been eye opening for me and I wanted to share my learnings so that future startup people can better understand the daily reality of the millions of SMB owners and employees that will determine whether or not the startup’s offerings/product will be adopted.
14 4 / 2012
This is the prototype of the idea #2 - a network of donation network for people with smart phones to give money to the homeless
14 4 / 2012
This is a prototype of idea #1, where you purchase wifi from a homeless person.
14 4 / 2012
Future of Pan Handling
I am attending a Hack-a-Thon / Collaboration Weekend put on by Creative Currency next weekend and wanted to get the ideas flowing.
I am most interested in the theme :
“How can tools like crowdfunding and microcredit be put to work for social service organizations and individuals alike?”
To start I thought about taking that and asking the question :
How to help homeless people get more money?
12 4 / 2012
Bootstrapper Anon V.1
Meeting 1
Goal of meeting to test two hypothesis with prototypes and figure which one resonated more with users (attendees)
1) Content Assumption
2) Accountability Assumption
The result of the meeting was to open a discussion on to what people wanted more / would come back for.
