to prevent high blood pressure…
keep these stickers in your car’s glove compartment and use accordingly…
This nifty health solution was brought to you by the guys at Skinny Corp, makers of Threadless and other neat projects. They gave an awesome talk on saturday at the community next conference which had a great line up of speakers. We got to present our work too and got lots of good feedback so that was nice.
One thing I noticed about almost all the projects at the conference is that they stemmed from a deep interest or need by the founder(s) so the subsequent community of users were people the founders could easily identify with. (i.e. the dogster guys love dogs and attract a community of dog lovers etc.) But what if you’ve come up with something and the people you thought would use it aren’t, BUT for some reason, you attract a big following among people you didn’t initially expect, identify with, or know that much about?? I don’t think things are quite as simple as just “following your passion.” Or maybe they are. I don’t know yet.
Anyways, Scott Beale has a good write-up and some pics over here.
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Thanks for the good words. Glad it resonated.
Thought I’d chime in any try to answer your question. You see, though we like dogs at Dogster, it’s not a secret that none of the founders have one. My wife and I finally got the landlord to agree we can have one, but, in the end the average user of Dogster is not all that like me.
Early on I had no idea who would be attracted to Dogster. Fortunately many more people then I ever imagined were interested in it. So I did all I could to know why they enjoyed it and what more they wanted to.
What I’ve learned is that though it’s helpful to be right in the middle of your community, if you can understand what your community wants, empathize with their concerns and wishes and do everything you can to make their dreams come true, that can be good enough.
In a way I always thought it was better I didn’t have a dog. That way i could put all our member dogs’ first, as if I was their uncle and not first among many.
Hopefully I don’t blow once we do get our dog. The SPCA called us back for a second meeting tomorrow. Keep your paws crossed for us!
Thanks for the input! that helps a lot :-) good luck with the SPCA and maybe we’ll see you on bernal hill with your new pup!
Our paws are crossed!!
Totally agree about the intention of a lot of the CEOS. Thanks for the write up and hope you had an awesome time!