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- Startup scene in Seattle right now?
- How to make clients love your tech product (For Tech Entrepreneurs)
- Help regarding setting up a Contingency Plan for a startup
- Big4 vs startup new grad
- Setting up a waitlist?
| Startup scene in Seattle right now? Posted: 02 Mar 2019 11:58 AM PST What up guys! So the startup I work for was just acquired by a marketing technology company in Seattle. They'd like to keep me onboard and have asked me if I'd be cool with moving out to Seattle and working out of their office in Bellevue. I'm mid-twenties, think it's a great career move, and would also really love to be in a city with a strong startup scene so that I could potentially get involved in more projects/ideas (I currently live in a city in Florida that unfortunately doesn't have any real type of startup community just yet). Would love to hear from any folks out that way how they like it + how they feel about the opportunities in that scene right now. Also secretly hoping someone on here has a made a similar move to what I'm considering and can weigh in on their firsthand experience so far. Appreciate any input—thank you! [link] [comments]  |
| How to make clients love your tech product (For Tech Entrepreneurs) Posted: 02 Mar 2019 10:21 PM PST Hello everyone, I have been a silent reader for a while. I would like to contribute my knowledge to this group based on my experience and hence this post. Do read it and let me know your thoughts as I would love to hear from you! How to make clients love your tech product The people that will use your tech product in the client's business, are also those that have little involvement in the decision to use your product. They are used to older systems that are suddenly not available to them, but they need to get their job done anyway. What does this mean for you? It could be hard to get all of the client's team members to adopt your product quickly. It is so easy to be compared with other products, typically the older systems that you replaced, or those of competitors. However, what if some simple actions you take could lead to a happy client, who is delighted to use your product and reverts for additional business? It could save you weeks, or even years and thousands of $$ spent in other efforts such as product support and even marketing. If you know how to get clients to use your products with ease, and quickly, then you will have a huge competitive advantage over everyone else in the space. Today, I will show you a few actions you could take and illustrate what works well and what may not.
a. The Generic Training Company X rolled out a tech product and provided training. They provided training videos on how to initiate workflows, receive approvals and achieve tasks using their product. On the surface, this seems like good exhaustive training. Company X clearly displayed enthusiasm and hard work in creating and providing such training. But let me tell you what is missing in this training. This type of training does not make enough impression. It is not memorable, because it is not specific to the unique needs of different teams within the client's organization. Furthermore, while I may take the trainings and learn about the product, I may not feel fully trained to use the product. Why?
So don't make the client do the work. Don't ask them to spend time figuring out how the product works for their needs. Instead, be the person that proactively comes up with ways to show them how the product will make their life easier. b. The Customized Training Company Y rolled out another tech product for and provided customized trainings to different teams such as finance and HR. They provided illustrations of their product features to each of these teams using scenarios applicable for that team. The teams responded really well, and started using the product enthusiastically. Why?
Company Y stood out by leading with empathy. So how can you stand out to your clients by being a superior training provider? The way to establish a relationship with your client's members is to listen to their unique needs and daily problems. Your product may use the same features across the client organization, but demonstrating how the product fits the needs to each team will compel the client organization to buy in to the decision of using your product. 2. Job aids Here are some more examples of how you can ensure your clients ease into using your product. a. Provide job aids that work really well for users on a daily basis. You can do this by talking to the different teams in your client's organization and identify the tasks for which they will use your product. Incorporate their inputs into the job aids. You could also include screen shots, with explanations provided in comment bubbles whenever possible. Once you give them the job aid, follow up with them to find out about its effectiveness and make modifications as necessary. b. Provide job aids to the client organization's helpdesk. Train other ancillary teams within the client organization that will support your client teams with the product. For example, it may be valuable to train the helpdesk on regular technical problems such as logins and access privileges. Feel free to leave me a comment, as I would love to hear from you! [link] [comments]  |
| Help regarding setting up a Contingency Plan for a startup Posted: 03 Mar 2019 01:30 AM PST I have to present a case study in order to setup an automobile manufacturing company. In this scenario, how do I deal with issues like inadequate forecast of our target market or fluctuations in customer demands? In order to deal with such scenarios how do I come up with a contingency plan? I have been asked to present solutions in the scenario that the business fails. How to deal with such scenarios? I haven't been able to find solutions to such scenarios. Like if customer demands change how do I cater to these demands? If the target market that we aim to capture fluctuates like how to come up with a solution to this? If anyone has any information regarding the automotive sector and knows how the various companies in that sector deal with such problems, it would be of great help. I also wanted to know examples of problems regarding this field, like possible scenarios and contingency plans for the same. The automotive sector is the target market however if the same plan can cater to a similar market, that would work too. Any help would be greatly appreciated. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2019 11:53 AM PST Background: I am quite interested in compilers/formal verification/programming languages in general, and currently do some research on campus related to formal verification. I have taken classes across the spectrum, and I think distributed/operating systems also are quite interesting. I have wanted to work at Google (specifically the search infrastructure or chrome OS or the Golang compiler team) for some time now (this might not be relevant now, but will be as you read along). I also would prefer to be in the Bay Area (nothing against Seattle, it's just a preference I have had for a while now). The offers:
My parents want me to go to MS (mostly for the name), but I think the startup will be more of a learning experience. Some people have told me if I have an offer from MS in my hand right now I can get an offer again - not trying to be overconfident and leave what I have. I could work at Bing for a while and then switch to the visual code team to work on the cpp compiler, so that's something I am also considering. I would really appreciate some insights on this matter. Thanks in advance! EDIT: changed the startup description a bit. [link] [comments]  |
| Posted: 02 Mar 2019 04:43 PM PST I am currently in the process of launching one of my first major projects, and I want to setup a waitlist at the beginning so I can slowly test everything and grow in a controlled way. I currently think I can support 100 users at once, and this should help me validate the idea and figure out any issues in the system. So once I have more than 100 users sign up it will rollover to a waitlist system that gives each user a referral link to invite others that will allow them to move up in the waitlist. However, before the user gets add to the waitlist I want to allow the user to have a short trial run of using the software and then tell them we signed up too many users and we have to add them to a waitlist until further notice. I personally think that after the use it first hand and test it out it would lead to a higher chance of the user understanding what my software does and thus be more inclined to invite others using my referral system. Is my logic flawed? Why or why won't this approach work? Thanks in advance for the advice! [link] [comments]  |
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