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Comment · 3 years ago
Hi HN,
I started this newsletter almost two years ago a side project. I’m fascinated by how products evolve to meet the needs of their customers. So much of startup and tech culture is focused on celebrating launch day. We often forget about all of the hard work that goes into iterating the product after launch to find the proverbial product market fit and sustainable growth. The year following a launch is usually quite challenging, and most products don’t go gangbusters with exponential growth. Instead there are countless tweaks, features developed then abandoned, marketing techniques tested, and long nights spent stressed about the future.
This newsletter is dedicated to that first year.
I've done 31 interviews and have some good ones lined up for the start of 2023. Hope you find them useful. You can read the full archive here: https://www.readoneyearwiser.com/posts
Comment · 4 years ago
I started this newsletter in March of last year. So far, I've done about 20 interviews. You can find all of them here: https://www.readoneyearwiser.com/posts
I decided to start the newsletter because so much of startup and tech culture is focused on celebrating launch day, but the hard part comes after launch!
Let me know what you think.
Comment · 5 years ago
Hey All - I've started to interview founders and product makers one year after their product launch to hear about their journey and what they've learned along the way. A lot of tech focuses on product launches and I think the hard part comes after launching when you are struggling to find product market fit and grow.
For my newsletter, I recently spoke to Phil Libin about his video startup, mmhmm. Let me know what you think.
Comment · 5 years ago
I recently interviewed the co-founder and CEO of Fairstream, a virtual events platform that helps companies recruit and hire candidates from diverse communities.
Some good insights on being a founder, but I especially liked when he walked me through how they realized that the first iteration of the product wasn’t the best one and how after their virtual career fair concept went viral they only had 3 weeks to put the event together.