Dane Maxwell
21 statements across 2 episodes · 5 bullish · 0 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Feb 24, 2016 by Dane Maxwell · across every show →
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Feb 24, 2016
Feb 24, 2016
Feb 24, 2016
Maxwell: Founders struggle to find problems when they push personal agendas
“People tend to get stuck for extended periods of time on finding a painful problem to solve. That's this, that's like, so, you know, people are sometimes will take four or five, six months just to find a single painful problem to solve. And the reason it takes…”
Feb 24, 2016 neutral
Feb 24, 2016
Feb 24, 2016 positive
Maxwell: The Foundation plans to launch $99 annual alumni membership program
“Our official alumni program kicks off November first, I believe. And for that, we're just charging all our existing alumni as a thank you for being in. We're just going to charge them 99 dollars for a year. But we're going to be thinking of it in terms of like…”
Feb 24, 2016 positive
Jun 3, 2020
Dane Maxwell: Software succeeds by improving existing behaviors, not modifying habits
“And that if you get the idea really solid and sound, meaning it's not modifying someone's behavior, they're currently looking for a solution, they're currently doing that thing without, without the product itself. And so not like, you know, like a Nordic track…”
Jun 3, 2020 neutral
Dane Maxwell: Adding a PDF hover preview doubled Paperless Pipeline's storage costs
“What happens is I created a feature where if you hovered over the link of the PDF, it would instantly create a preview so they could look at that document without having to click, without having to download. That doubled the cost of our hard drive space becaus…”
Jun 3, 2020
Jun 3, 2020
Jun 3, 2020
Jun 3, 2020 positive
Dane Maxwell advises founders to hire developers directly from open-source communities
“I recommend hiring, for if you're hiring software, you want to hire open source. You want to hire the best open source developers you can find. These guys love coding for the passion of it, and you see, you go to open source communities, and you find these guy…”
Jun 3, 2020
Dane Maxwell validated Paperless Pipeline by asking users what software failed them
“With PayPal's pipeline, the way that I built that and found that idea was I just went into the market. And essentially asked people what's the software product that you've been using or looking for years, but it's just not meeting the needs that you have.”
Jun 3, 2020
Dane Maxwell says beginner entrepreneurs obsess over mechanisms, not customer outcomes
“The fundamentals of a business, as you know, as many know, is a customer that uses a mechanism to get a result. That's really a business in a nutshell. A customer that uses a mechanism to get a result. New people that are looking to start a business obsess abo…”
Jun 3, 2020
Jun 3, 2020
Dane Maxwell advises finding SaaS ideas by asking what software frustrates professionals
“You could send someone cold. It's like, Hey, I'm looking to build software for your industry. And I'm just looking to know what software do you use right now? That makes you want to throw your computer out the window.”
Jun 3, 2020 bullish
Jun 3, 2020 positive
Dane Maxwell positioned Paperless Pipeline as overhead reduction, avoiding feature-based comparisons
“All of my competitors were selling is it's transaction management software. So all of my competitors, they were selling transaction management software. But what I did is I sold how to build a mobile office, how to reduce your overhead.”
Jun 3, 2020