Youtube, facebook, twitter, instagram have all created jobs in my organisation. People are hired to create content and maintain the accounts. They have made/forced the organisation to be more customer facing and friendly.
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The potential for this country to get advanced technology well ahead of it's time getting rejected by bureaucrats because of other priorities (or really it serves none of their short term goals).
The same thing happened with our fibre network in the early 90's.
Only thing I would add is that don't just look for problems but for inefficient workflows as well. A person may have to do some same set of tasks everyday and not realise that they can do it faster or it is a problem at all.
Perhaps go to random meetups or business networking events etc
- Anglo Saxon obsession with property. There is a culture of being obsessed with home ownership in Anglo-Saxon countries. Particularly the UK. This pushes people to pay over the top for property and thus increases prices even further.
- Property prices seem to be increasing particularly sharply around London & Brighton. This is because they are wealth creation centres. Well paid jobs, tourism, industry, culture all cause property prices to go up as people want to live there.
- Weather. This one isn't written about so much. But the hypothesis is that people tend to want to live in the South because of better weather. The weather in Kent is far better than is say Yorkshire in terms of net sunlight and average temperatures.
I would be willing to bet that, in the past, property prices would have still sharply increased in certain areas even without high immigration.
David, if you don't mind answering, what made you decide to call it a day at groupspaces? Was there a certain event or circumstance that made you think "okay lets work on something else now".
☻ But having looked through the thread, I don't believe anyone has asked you to think about Why the app is getting traction.
☻ You can come up with your own hypothesis or you can ask your users.
☻ Once you've understood why, you'll be better placed to take the next step. Whether that involves monetisation, creating clones, developing the app, not developing the app - that is up to you.
☻Tl;dr Find out why users like your app and try to strategise based on that.
It's also an opportunity for you to try and make the change with culture and founders, rather than just giving up and running away.
Making it clear what the costs is and making the set up ridiculously easy.
Exactly the same strategy as they did with A/B testing.
Trello does all the communicating.
1) It tells me whats done and what is not, through the checkboxes
2) On larger projects, the guys leave updates in the activity section every couple of hours or when they hit a milestone or a are stuck with a problem or are unsure of something. Think of these as like facebook style updates but for large projects.
These updates are delivered to me in real time. We can then discuss any problems etc at a suitable time at their convenience or I can pre-emptively direct them to someone who can help. Unless the problem is urgent in which case we discuss it then and there.
This way I know what's what and the guys have an open channel to me.
Why? What's the benefit?
P.S. I have a playbook if you can use examples from that (if it has RTOS)
Also the $50 fee should be conditional upon a developer being successfully picked - at least initially so to boost volume.