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Welcome to Startup Strategist by stratup.ai. It's Tuesday, and today we have two news stories, one article, and 5 resources for you.
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News: (1) Perform raises (TechCrunch), (2) Tesla workforce (WSJ)
Startup insights from founder of Amplitude
Resources: startup list, program schedule, startup blog
StratupAI Idea: Crop harvesting
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News
1. ‘Paraform raises $3.6M seed round to connect startups with recruiter networks’(TechCrunch)
Paraform, a recruitment platform, raised $3.6 million in seed funding to connect startups with these independent recruiters, focusing on providing a two-way marketplace for job listings and talent sourcing. (TechCrunch)
2. ‘Tesla to cut 10% of global workforce’ (WSJ)
“Tesla’s once-enviable profit margins have also narrowed in recent quarters as the company has resorted to deep price cuts to stimulate sales.” (WSJ
Startup insights from the founder of Amplitude
Spenser Skates is the founder of Amplitude, a billion-dollar-plus company started about a decade ago. He recently gave an interview on the EO channel, and these are my takeaways.
Before Amplitude, he started a voice recognition startup. Although it garnered many users, the level of churn meant it wasn't profitable. In other words, they didn't have a product-market fit. This relates to the interview on growth hacking reviewed in Friday's edition.
With this experience, they developed an analytics tool to understand why customers were leaving. He eventually realized he could form a company around this. This relates to the idea of solving your problem to create a successful startup.
Spenser says one of their biggest mistakes was not talking enough to customers in the earlier stages of the company.
A good way of determining if you have product-market-fit, and whether you are solving the right problems (for the right customers) is asking for money. Spenser notes how in the early stage, it can be unnerving to ask for money because the product is incomplete. This reminds me of Noah Kagan's new book, where a key message is to ask for money, not necessarily because you need that money (indeed if you intend on refunding if things don't work out, it shouldn't be spent unless agreed upon beforehand), but as a signal for what to work on, and who your customers are.
"No's are OK" - Spenser Skates
Regarding competition, Spenser says although it was a crowded space, they differentiated themselves by doing more in-depth insights and analytics, whereas competitors were primarily "surface level".
3 Resources
3) Startup blog (A Smart Bear)
“Having ideas is among the most important qualities for a startup founder to have—you will need to generate lots of new ideas in the course of running a startup.”
“Harvesting crops efficiently and effectively is a critical aspect of farming, but it can be labor-intensive and time-consuming, especially for smaller farms. A startup idea that combines the auto and farming industries could be an autonomous crop harvesting system. This system would utilize robotic technology to autonomously navigate fields, identify ripe crops, and harvest them with precision. By automating the harvesting process, farmers could save time, reduce labor costs, and potentially increase overall crop yield. The startup could offer different models of autonomous harvesters tailored to various crop types and farm sizes, providing farmers with a convenient and efficient solution to improve their harvesting operations.”
Disclaimer: The startup ideas shared in this forum are offered for general consideration and discussion, and are non-rigorously curated via the Stratup.ai idea generator. Individuals utilizing these concepts are encouraged to exercise independent judgment and undertake due diligence per legal and regulatory requirements.
That’s all for today, thanks for reading. See you on Friday.
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