Tag: Exsila

Call your users

I’ve written about Y Combinator‘s mantra before: Talk to your users! Here is what I have done recently: I’ve written a short email to 100 of the most active Exsila users and asked them if they would like to do a short phone call with me. I asked them to send me their phone number and their availability….

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by Remo Uherek

Talk to users

Y Combinator — a successful start-up incubator — has a mantra: Talk to your users! Here is Y Combinator’s advice from the How to Start a Startup Lecture Series at Stanford (which I highly recommend!): “At YC, we tell founders to work on their product, talk to users, exercise, eat and sleep, and very little else. All the other…

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by Remo Uherek

Focusing on key metrics

I often suffer from statistics paralysis. Too many metrics, too many moving parts, too much stuff to optimize.  Over the years, I’ve learned that it’s helpful to pick just one or two key metrics to focus on. When I joined Exsila, my initial key metric was number of trades. But somehow it just didn’t feel…

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by Remo Uherek

Whatever scares you, go do it

I keep returning to Derek Sivers’s life motto: Whatever scares you, go do it. I’m now ending each shower with a cold shower for several years, but the fear of the cold never goes away. The first 10 seconds are always scary. Sometimes I shower cold-only. It’s incredible how fast the body is able to adjust. Within just 2…

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by Remo Uherek

The going international trap

Back in 2007, when Alain and I were building Trigami, we almost made a terrible mistake. Actually we were in the middle of doing it. To give you some background: Trigami was a B2B advertising network, specialized on blogs and social media, heavily relying on B2B sales (phone calls, proposals, meetings). We were young and…

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by Remo Uherek