Gut feelings are sometimes right and sometimes wrong. Personally, I prefer to make decisions based on data rather than feelings, because this drastically reduces the risk of making a wrong decision. However, the harsh reality is that many times in business person has to make a decision without ha...
Git is the latest and coolest software, and SVN is the outdated old one. When you tell SVN that you want to create a new branch of your code to have some fun, it creates a heavy weight dumb carbon copy for you. But Git is intelligent, it won't create a new copy for you instead it will only keep t...
Simple question: Simple answer. Yes.
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In my experience coaching hundreds of people, anytime you go against your gut (aka intuition) you will lose. Data is important to consider, but your gut often knows the path.
It's absolutely possible to get customers / clients without doing any paid advertising. As you suggested - this can be from word of mouth or from a variety of other sources. Effective marketing plans often utilize a broad spectrum of both inbound and outbound strategies. And some business models...
There's a lot of marketplaces where you could promote the app to avid travelers. I work mostly in the travel space, and building an audience is always the hardest part, especially since there's so much competition. You have two great options, and the first I'd say is to create a press release. ...
Option 1. Before you muddy the waters go to a local bank and see if they can help. They may be able to provide you a short term loan. Option 2. Ask friends and family if they will loan you the money. Option 3. Get a pitch deck together and get on AngelList
I'd ask the customers you do have why they downloaded the app, what they were looking for when they found it, how they heard about it, what they like/don't like about it, and how they think you could reach more people. What pain are you solving, who experiences it the most, and how do you reach t...
It is completely normal to feel stuck in a situation where our intentions had been to help others but we get ourselves in trouble. This kind of experience makes us human and prevent us from future events that might be more damaging to us by teaching us some lesson. However, when you love someone...