paskster

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Ask HN: Simple provider to prototype Webapps?
1 points by paskster 2y ago|1 comments
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by paskster 3y ago
Thanks. But we do not need to raise any money. As I said, we make single digit millions (in Euro) per year in profit. Do you have any other ideas? Or did I misunderstood you?
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Ask HN: Additional vesting period after 5 years
2 points by paskster 3y ago|4 comments
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by paskster 9y ago
It seems that folks at HN look down on so called "CRUD" apps. But the truth for most CRUD apps is, that a lot of thought went into building these apps and they have a lot of important parts, whose construction cannot easily be aut
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Sendgrid is down but status page not updated(sendgrid.com)
1 points by paskster 9y ago|0 comments
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by paskster 9y ago
Interesting that the chatbots learned to show "fake" interest in an item, just to conceide it later in the negotiation process. But I think what is missing, is the time component when negotiating with humans. A negotiation pro
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by paskster 10y ago
I like this quote so much and I love that it stands out: “You all can defeat Trump next time, but not if you keep mocking us, refusing to listen to us, and cutting us out. It’s Republicans, not Democrats, who will take Trump down.” I belie
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by paskster 10y ago
It's funny, just two weeks ago we bought a simple mircrowave with just two knobs for our office: https://www.amazon.de/Severin-MW-7874-Mikrowelle-kombinierba... I explicitely chose that mircrowave because it only had t
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by paskster 10y ago
I Like your idea a lot especially your last paragraph. I don't think providing these information alone is a viable business model. But it could be used as a "lead generater" to support another business model. Basically it wou
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by paskster 10y ago
I am looking for a "Daily Operations Management Software". Let me explain. Problem I am facing: We have a lot tasks that need to be done on a daily, biweekly, monthly or whatever Basis. For example: checking new profile images, cu
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by paskster 10y ago
Yes! I think trying to make revenue as early as possible and making side gigs if necessary, is a valid way to bootstrap. But this is just my opinion and this topic should require its own thread, if you want to go into details.
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by paskster 10y ago
Don't feel defeated. Embrace the fact that you can make it on your own ;)
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by paskster 10y ago
It makes a lot of sense for people with Social Proof.
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by paskster 10y ago
> Then work on that. I disagree. If you don't already have Social Proof, then it takes a big investment to try getting it. I believe for 99% of all startup teams, the time is better spent by working on your product or acquiring cust
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by paskster 10y ago
see my reply here, I hope it answers your question: https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13634338
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by paskster 10y ago
If you have Social Proof, you know you have it. If you are not sure, then you don't have it. Social Proof could mean: - You are a Serial Entrepreneur - A famous Business Angel invested in your company - You graduated from a University
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by paskster 10y ago
There are a lot of Investors in Berlin. But without Social Proof, it would probably be a waste of time trying to approach them. If you make about 100k revenue (or if you have otherwise significant traction), you can not only approach invest
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by paskster 10y ago
Please don't waste your time pitching to investors in this position in Berlin. If you make X < 100.000 EUR monthly revenue, then any "investor" in Berlin will probably tell you: "Very interesting. Let's keep in t
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by paskster 10y ago
We tried raising money for 5 months last year and we talked to partners from about 20 European VC, but we were not successful. We got no or low-balling offers at best. I guess we were missing what people call "social proof". This
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by paskster 10y ago
Thanks ;)
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by paskster 10y ago
We charge a markup (between 21 % to 43 %) on top of the employees wage. Example: You book a promoter for 3 days. The promoters works 7 hours per day and earns 10 EUR per hour. Then his total gross wage is 210 EUR and our markup is 90,30 EUR
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by paskster 10y ago
There is a lot of content on the internet about proper call-to-action buttons (short: CTA). But I will try to give you my experience: 1.) The first CTA should be above-the-fold, visible to users right away without scrolling. 2.) If it is a
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by paskster 10y ago
We don't do cooperation with other companies, since we want to be focused 100 % on our business model. But I wish you all the best with your platform and I can recommend you to also create highly targeted landingpages. For example (jus
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by paskster 10y ago
We are mainly targeting short term jobs for exhibition, events and promotion right now. 80 % of the time, customers book young females for these jobs. So your are right, that we show "young attractive women" on a lot of landing pa
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by paskster 10y ago
We are creating an online marketplace for short term work in Germany ( https://www.instaff.jobs ). Businesses can publish their jobs on our platform, jobbers apply with their profile and then these businesses can book the jobbers
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by paskster 10y ago
Europe is not a single market at all. Simple thinks like making sure your invoice is paid from a customer who is based in another european country is practically impossible. I know because I am the CEO of a staffing company in Germany: nati
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Ask HN: Good alternatives to Twilio for SMS delivery?
3 points by paskster 10y ago|0 comments
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by paskster 11y ago
1) If you expect a certain refund quota, lets say 20 % within 6 months, then you should already account for it: only account 80 % of the actual revenue and adjust this number after 6 months when you now the actual refund quota. This makes i
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by paskster 11y ago
1.) Refund: Yes, I would adjust the revenue in the month it was recognized. 2.) Monthly growth: It is actually really simple, you just caculate: (16/1)to the power of (1/6) which equals: 1.58 This means the average growth rate was
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by paskster 11y ago
I really like the fact that this post first distinguishes "#1 Bookings vs. Revenue". I hear it almost everyday among startups, where they talk about bookings, revenue and incoming payments interchangeably. And sometimes even in th

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