Unknown: what differentiates new members who actively start using WIP and participate in the community, and members who join but never seem to get the hang of it.
How to find out: talk to early new members, track how active they are, and try to understand their differences
When I do know: I can help more members to be successful in adopting WIP (if it's something I can control), and/or target my marketing towards people who are the right fit for WIP join (if it's something I cannot control)
Biggest unknown: How hire managers decide which job boards to post to.
How to find out: Ask them. Reach out to a few through LinkedIn/etc and set up calls. Incentivise with gift certificate or something if needed.
When I do know: Decide on next steps to get more hire managers to post on Startup Jobs
Unknown: What makes for the most interesting startups for our audience
How to find out: Look at metrics. See which startups get most engagement
When I do know: Focus our site/newsletter/etc on those startups instead. Increase signal to noise ratio. Increases engagement. Which makes BetaList more valuable to qualifying startups, and advertisers.
I joined very recently and plan to stay very active and engaged :)
My first impression of WIP was through a post on HackerNews about a year (or two?) ago. A successful startup posted their story, and mentioned that they couldn't have done it without the supportive community on WIP.chat. I'm all about supportive communities, so I immediately bookmarked the site and kind of forgot about it for a while.
Fast forward to life in quarantine. I have a ton of extra free time on my hands, so now I'm finally going after the businesses that I've been wanting to create. I remembered WIP.chat from the HackerNews post and immediately signed up. Isolation has been tough, so having like-minded people talking about entrepreneurship has been really helpful.
I'll go first :)
Unknown: what differentiates new members who actively start using WIP and participate in the community, and members who join but never seem to get the hang of it.
How to find out: talk to early new members, track how active they are, and try to understand their differences
When I do know: I can help more members to be successful in adopting WIP (if it's something I can control), and/or target my marketing towards people who are the right fit for WIP join (if it's something I cannot control)
Biggest unknown: How hire managers decide which job boards to post to.
How to find out: Ask them. Reach out to a few through LinkedIn/etc and set up calls. Incentivise with gift certificate or something if needed.
When I do know: Decide on next steps to get more hire managers to post on Startup Jobs
Unknown: What makes for the most interesting startups for our audience
How to find out: Look at metrics. See which startups get most engagement
When I do know: Focus our site/newsletter/etc on those startups instead. Increase signal to noise ratio. Increases engagement. Which makes BetaList more valuable to qualifying startups, and advertisers.
I joined very recently and plan to stay very active and engaged :)
My first impression of WIP was through a post on HackerNews about a year (or two?) ago. A successful startup posted their story, and mentioned that they couldn't have done it without the supportive community on WIP.chat. I'm all about supportive communities, so I immediately bookmarked the site and kind of forgot about it for a while.
Fast forward to life in quarantine. I have a ton of extra free time on my hands, so now I'm finally going after the businesses that I've been wanting to create. I remembered WIP.chat from the HackerNews post and immediately signed up. Isolation has been tough, so having like-minded people talking about entrepreneurship has been really helpful.
Thanks for sharing and glad you remembered us :)
Curious to hear about your "biggest unknown" for Piggybank too by the way.