You know you're a scrappy entrepreneur if you've just emailed all of your friends asking them to try out your new site -- guilty!
This is exactly what I did last week Thursday. I messaged all of my friends on Facebook (which may have been many of you) asking to try out my new website and provide some feedback on it.
Some of you may have found this annoying or asked yourself, "why is he spamming me?", or both. However, when you're a scrappy entrepreneur, you've got to be able to do anything and everything to make something happen. And, one of the first tests that a scrappy entrepreneur should pass is to be able to message all of their friends and ask them to try out their new product.
In my case, Viewpointr is a consumer-oriented startup that is not particularly targeted to anyone specific yet. So, my friends feedback can really be helpful especially in terms of: determining who we should be targeting, and also, providing thought processes through every step of using the site, commenting on the user interface and functionalities of the site.
This point was recently re-enforced by Dan Martell, Co-Founder of Flowtown at an event a few weeks ago organized by Tracy Lee at LiveUmbrella.com entitled "How to Run a Scrappy Startup." Dan mentioned the #1 test to see if you are a scrappy entrepreneur is if you have the guts to email all of your friends asking them to try out your site and beg them to give you feedback on it.
I would like to put you in touch with a particular type of person that you want to connect with... in return for your feedback on Viewpointr.
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Go to http://viewpointr.com:
1. Fill in your request.
2. Sign in through Facebook, Twitter, LinkedIn, Gmail, Yahoo, or Hotmail.
3. Invite me: andre@viewpointr.com, so I can easily point your request to the people you've requested.
In return, all I ask is for you to please share your feedback (i.e. bugs, suggestions, likes, dislikes, etc.) -- http://feedback.viewpointr.com
I appreciate your help in advance.
If you dig Viewpointr:
Fan us on Facebook (http://facebook.com/
Follow us on Twitter (http://twitter.com/viewpointr
I really appreciate your support!
Cheers,
Andre
http://twitter.com/acharoo
P.S. Have you spammed your friends for your startup? What was the response? Did you get any good feedback?
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