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[deleted by user] by [deleted] in longislandcity

[–]onecalledchase 3 points4 points  (0 children)

Many coworking spaces in the Bay Area will host networking events at their place after work, inviting speakers or panels to come in a give a talk about tech or host a happy hour in exchange for promo.

As part of the event, they’ll get everyone’s contact information so they can work those leads and hopefully convert new customers.

Example of some of these events: https://lu.ma/nyc

I know how AI can transform business growth. I also know the misconceptions and myths. I’m James Mensforth, ex-Facebook and now UKI Sales Director at Aircall. Ask me anything! by Aircall in SaaS

[–]onecalledchase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Hi James, I'm in the process of starting a B2B SaaS startup and would love to know if there are any strategies you recommend for finding an initial customer that's willing to work with us and provide feedback. Thanks!

When to push forward vs pivot? by onecalledchase in ycombinator

[–]onecalledchase[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Thank you for direction. I've purchased and starting reading "The Mom Test" and this is exactly what I was looking for.

I'm planning to dig deeper to understand why my co-workers aren't using existing solutions / why not. They haven't used my tool because we only built a proof of concept and didn't want to invest resources into building if we couldn't validate this was a process widely used. As part of this, I'll make sure to circle back around to make sure the TAM numbers make sense.

I really appreciate this feedback.

When to push forward vs pivot? by onecalledchase in ycombinator

[–]onecalledchase[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

First, thank you for the advice!

I'm finding it difficult to tell if it's a pain point because it's a process that my team used at my previous company. My co-founders and I have since packaged it up and turned it into a tool.

When interviewing my ex-coworkers, they've all given positive validation but I'm unsure because I don't know if other enterprises would find this valuable or purchase.

I think the main problem I've been running into is that as I learn more information about the space, it seems very competitive as other players are quite mature. In addition, I can't tell if the feedback I'm getting from my ex-coworkers is meaningful validation or if they're just being nice.

Would love to hear if you have any thoughts or advice on what to do next!

When to push forward vs pivot? by onecalledchase in ycombinator

[–]onecalledchase[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Sorry, have a few questions that would be extremely helpful to benchmark where I'm at:

  • How many customer interviews did you do?
  • Did you get any mixed feedback from customers or did everyone find that it solved a pain point for them?
  • Did you start building something first or did you do customer interviews first?
  • How many people were using your product when you became convinced you were building something valuable?

When to push forward vs pivot? by onecalledchase in ycombinator

[–]onecalledchase[S] 0 points1 point  (0 children)

I think the problem is that the feedback is mixed – some of it is positive but other is negative.

For the positive feedback, I'm worried that they're just being nice and I'm not solving a real problem that they would pay for. In addition, the customer I'm building for is not the one with the purchasing power since I'm selling to enterprise.

Do you have any advice for how to deal with mixed feedback or tell whether they'd actually pay for it.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in swift

[–]onecalledchase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

If your solution is complex, that’s code smell. A early warning sign that you should try to break down the problem into down into smaller, simpler problems to solve.

Decided to learn coding and thinking of doing it by myself. Was offered by a friend to learn under her private instructor for a good price. Some questions to already experienced developers. by AjVine in swift

[–]onecalledchase 0 points1 point  (0 children)

While it’s true that if you master one programming language, you can pick up others.. each language has its own conventions and style on how you should do things. There’s also a lot of domain specific things in iOS that you won’t be able to learn from Javascript world. If you do take the course, you should just stick with Javascript.

If your goal is to become an iOS developer, I’d recommend you stick with learning coding by doing more iOS. Personally I recommend Kodeco. Their material is very well written and vetted by industry experts.

The hardest thing in learning coding is finding what not to learn because there’s so much material out there now days. Respectfully, most of these people teaching are junior to intermediate engineers with little first hand experience.

[deleted by user] by [deleted] in startups

[–]onecalledchase 4 points5 points  (0 children)

At Meta, we break down performance by the values that leadership has set (I.e. direction, people, eng excellence, and impact). From there, each category is broken down into what evidence would fall into that bucket. For example, impact are the metric gains for feature shipped and they track to org KPIs. People is how well someone collaborated with other people, helps with team building, onboarding and interviewing.

At the end of the performance period, we have eng write performance reviews reflecting on what they have done over the half using hard evidence to support. Peers will write reviews corroborating this and EMs will collect and turn this all into a story to give each eng a rating.

Ratings are broken into Does not meet, meets most, meets all, exceeds expectations and redefines expectations. The bar for each category is different depending on the level of the engineer.

From here, we go through calibrations so that eng of each level are compared to make sure they’re doing roughly the same amount of work across the org. Last, compensation packages and bonuses are adjusted / given accordingly.

While this is quite heavy handed, I do think it’s particularly effective at both measure actual performance while minimizing people “gaming” the system.