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robfitz

4,331 karma · joined February 26, 2007

Before: went through YC in s07, loved the journey, and been running little bootstrapped businesses ever since.

Now: chipping away usefulbooks.com to support indie authors and maybe solve some pet peeves with the industry.

Also wrote three books about stuff I've learned along the way:

1// The Mom Test about how to talk to customers and learn what they care about when everyone is lying to you (momtestbook.com)

2// The Workshop Survival Guide about designing and delivering better educational workshops (workshopsurvival.com)

3// Write Useful Books about how to design and test nonfiction books as if they were a problem-solving products built for back catalog recommendability (usefulbooks.com)

X// Book-in-progress is about Outcome-Oriented Communities (early ideas on that at robfitz.com)

rob@robfitz.com

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In Praise of the Side Project

daveduarte.co.za·3 pts·robfitz·
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Investing in a personal toolbox

blog.thestartuptoolkit.com·5 pts·robfitz·
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What could convince a developer to invest their time in your platform?

blog.thestartuptoolkit.com·13 pts·robfitz·
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My dad taught me cashflow with a soda machine

blog.thestartuptoolkit.com·1060 pts·robfitz·
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Solo founder or small team? Fix your life with a real-life non-virtual assistant

blog.thestartuptoolkit.com·57 pts·robfitz·
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You can’t strategize your way past the hard stuff - on getting that first sale

blog.thestartuptoolkit.com·36 pts·robfitz·
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It’s the founding CEO’s job to personally email the first 1000 users

blog.thestartuptoolkit.com·259 pts·robfitz·
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Adding a picture of me to your site will improve conversions by 788%

blog.thestartuptoolkit.com·168 pts·robfitz·
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The coffeeshop fallacy

thestartuptoolkit.com·233 pts·robfitz·
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How to date a supermodel (or get dealflow or find cofounders)

thestartuptoolkit.com·6 pts·robfitz·
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The mom test for good customer feedback

thestartuptoolkit.com·4 pts·robfitz·
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The elevator pitch of failure (how and why I simplify when asked why we failed)

thestartuptoolkit.com·9 pts·robfitz·
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Hard work and high skills - notch and the value of the individual hacker

thestartuptoolkit.com·74 pts·robfitz·
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Suggest HN: earn karma for each flag after your own?

10 pts·robfitz·
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Startup Developers – Make sure you think about the business too…

devblog.seomoz.org·17 pts·robfitz·
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Game Development: You Need $100,000

whatgamesare.com·111 pts·robfitz·
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Quick thoughts on Edge (Adobe's html5 keyframe animator) workflow & practicality

7 pts·robfitz·
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All Revenue is not Equal - getting better stock value judgements than 10x P/R

abovethecrowd.com·4 pts·robfitz·
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Ask HN: practical git process for teams with frequent deploy?

2 pts·robfitz·
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Just realized 4 years @ 50 hrs/wk on startups is 10k hours practice. There yet?

1 pts·robfitz·
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The permanent pivot (and other pivot problems)

thestartuptoolkit.com·5 pts·robfitz·
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How to use Twitter for B2B & enterprise startup sales

blog.habitindustries.com·6 pts·robfitz·
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Ask HN: Showing off customer feedback useful to you? (new from YC 07)

habitstream.com·38 pts·robfitz·
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Ten underexposed games w/ something to say/teach (pdf slides)

omicronpie.com·2 pts·robfitz·
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