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How many is "Lots"?
Apparently the US doesn't keep records of this phenomenon that are easily accessible.
This article^ from 2017 says 1,000 Jewish Americans serve in the IDF.
Of the ~7,000,000 Jewish Americans, that's ~0.0143% of Jewish Americans serving in the IDF.
If 1,000 joined and served each year, and live to an average age of 70, doesn't that mean ~50,000 people? That would mean ~0.714% of Jewish Americans having served in the IDF.
^ https://www.thedailybeast.com/1000-americans-are-serving-in-...
approximate number. 7.153-7.5 million are good estimates.
Have you read The Mom Test? Here's a summary: https://www.slideshare.net/xamde/summary-of-the-mom-test
I recommend reading the book.
Is that a shortage? Kind of. It is in some sense, it is not in others.
Yes. Does this make the previous comment any less true? I'd say it's likely neutral or might even make it more true.
Lucky indeed. Their resources are so valuable. The Mom Test is always worth a re-read, I recommend it so often to people.
I understand the tendency to be broader and speak to more different people (larger target market, more potential buyers), but it makes it harder to effectively communicate your message in the language of the buyer. Also different people have different priorities. The more focus, especially at first, the better.
Do some experiments and see who has the problem in the most pressing way, or who can and is willing to pay enough to solve it to make it work for you and them. Consider size of company, decision maker, potentially industry/sector, location, time since money raised, bootstrapped vs investor funded, anything that makes sense - you never know which niches will be amenable to you.
- Exactly who is your ideal customer, and what do they care about? Veteran CEO of 4 person seed stage start up in FinTech world trying to build an MVP? Mid career hiring manager at a Series B or C company in healthcare looking to expand their team long term? Recruiter at a Series D company with 20,000+ employees trying to meet their quota of leads for the week? Someone else? Drill down here. Once you identify it and validate that through experiments, focus on as few as possible - ideally just one.
- Is it clear to your potential customer what problem you are solving for them?
- Do they think you are the best way for them to solve it? What alternatives do they use currently? What's painful about it? What's better about your solution, so compelling that they should try it?
- Is the problem they think you solve one of their current priorities?
If the issue is with framing or marketing, here's a useful guide: https://www.julian.com/guide/growth/intro
Good luck!
You have to decide how to use your time and energy. They are precious limited resources. That might mean cutting your losses and doing something else now, whatever that is (including resting). It might mean trying more things on this project.
If $100 a month isn't a lot to you, and you're interested in making this project work, learning more, and getting better at creating a business, I'd do more work on it. You can apply what you learn to any other project you do, and some jobs as well.
You are getting some feedback (low sign ups, no paying users). You know alternatives exist that are getting some paid users. So you know something isn't working but you don't know what. It could be all sorts of things. Framing (copy, design), pricing, emails or lacks of emails (their subject line, what they say, etc). So many things and their combination could be the problem.
Have you read the Mom Test? Here's a summary: https://www.slideshare.net/xamde/summary-of-the-mom-test
Here's a great guide about growth, marketing, writing copy,ads, etc: https://www.julian.com/guide/growth/intro
I'd recommend getting more feedback from potential users to figure out what to change, and tinker with the website, pricing, and framing to get some users and paying users. Consider targeting a small niche of users, focusing on a sub-sub-group whose needs aren't being met with current offerings or specific feature that is lacking.
Does she have at least one decent looking publicly accessible project? That can help.
She should consider blogging about technical things to demonstrate she can communicate about technical things. 5-10 posts is all you need. That can help.
She should network. Get referred to jobs. Meet people by participating in organizations doing events (online and or in person), volunteering e.g. Code for America. Do informational interviews. Etc.
Then there's the phone stage, the pair programming stage. Each stage has its skills to work on.
She'll find a job if she engages with the process. Job searching is a grind. Find a support group.
"So, let me be crystal clear: the first genocide of the 20th century is no different. What happened in the Ottoman Empire to the Armenians beginning in 1915 was genocide. The genocide began with the ruling government arresting and executing several hundred Armenian intellectuals. After that, Armenian families were removed from their homes and sent on death marches. The Armenian people were subjected to deportation, expropriation, abduction, torture, massacre and starvation.
What happened to the Armenian people was unequivocally genocide.
We believe that remembering and educating about any genocide – Armenian, the Holocaust, Bosnia, Rwanda, and others is a necessary tool to prevent future tragedies."
https://www.adl.org/blog/adl-on-the-armenian-genocide
"In 2007, Abraham Foxman came under criticism for his stance on the Armenian genocide. ADL had previously described it as a "massacre" and an "atrocity", but not as a "genocide".[134] Foxman had earlier opposed calls for the US Government to recognise it as a "genocide".[135]"
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Anti-Defamation_League#Armenia...
Do anti-BDS laws mean the ADL has an identity crisis? Or they should be having one? They seem related to their mission.
I’m not a lawyer, and I’m not an expert in the first amendment, its case law, or anti-BDS laws. You might be right that some or all anti-BDS laws violate some first amendment right in some way. I don’t know which analogy is the right one to apply to anti-BDS laws, something different legal scholars and lawyers argue about. It seems like reasonable people can disagree about what is constitutional and what is not here. Maybe the supreme court will rule on it specifically, and even then it might still be the case that reasonable people can disagree.
ADL's stated mission is "To stop the defamation of the Jewish people, and to secure justice and fair treatment to all..." It seems like the ADL has legitimate work it can be doing, unless you think Jews and all people are treated fairly. I don't think you're saying that, and I do think you're saying it's not doing the work that it could be doing. Could you say more about that?
"Of the 1,715 victims of anti-religious hate crimes:
60.2 percent were victims of crimes motivated by offenders’ anti-Jewish bias."
Anti-Jewish hate-crimes make up a majority of the anti-religious hate crimes in the US. (You could argue they should be classified as "Racial/ethnicity/ancestry bias" but that's another discussion).
The statistics aren't perfect - not every crime or possible crime is reported to law enforcement, and not every law enforcement agency in the US shares hate crime information with the federal government. A recent law changed that so it's required instead of optional, so likely more will be doing so in the future.
"The Russian-made Kornet anti-tank guided missile, often called ATGM as an acronym, is accurate and effective. It has a range of around 5.5 kilometers and has been used by Hamas and other terrorist groups for years. In 2015, Hezbollah fired several ATGMs against Israeli Humvees on the border."
https://www.jpost.com/arab-israeli-conflict/what-do-hamas-an...
https://www.jpost.com/israel-news/why-anti-tank-missiles-pos...
Generally from the start the word meant hating Jews (not Semitic peoples as in those that speak Semitic languages - Jews specifically). If it didn't originally, it certainly came to mean that over time.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Antisemitism#Etymology
Maybe people that speak Semitic languages are Semitic (I don't know - feels like pseudoscience, though there could be a lot of commonality in different ways). That being said, "Antisemitism" means hating Jews. It's not a special prize or anything. More than anything, the terminology is an unhelpful distraction from the more important things around when it comes up. I wish they stuck with "Judenhass".
Do some observation and learning about how tools your users are used to do what you're trying to do.
Some resources:
https://uxdesign.cc/data-table-for-enterprise-ux-cb48fb9fdf1...
https://uxdesign.cc/enterprise-ux-anything-but-typical-a955d...
Would love to hear more of your thoughts sometime after you vacation.
What's the value of a good "map" of an existing market? What are you willing to pay for one?
Ask good questions. Read The Mom Test. Here's a summary: https://www.slideshare.net/xamde/summary-of-the-mom-test