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Warner: Start as a consultant to get paid for finding software ideas
“If you do it as a consultant, you start to see the problems that people have firsthand, and then who knows, maybe you have just a big consulting company, or maybe you augment it with a little bit of software, and then you have recurring revenue from software. …”
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Warner: Customers will prepay for unbuilt software if the pain is severe
“I think when you find a problem that people have that's a big enough problem, they'll pay you even before the software is built, even before the solution is built, and I think that that's where we're going to see it.”
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Warner: Elaborate chatbot flowcharts are unmaintainable and impossible to delegate
“People have these, like, elaborate flow charts that are too confusing for them, and they'll never maintain it. Or they'll, worse, they'll be the only ones to maintain it, and then they can't hire people to help build on it. You're right. Keep it really short.”
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Warner: Message chat subscribers daily for 2-3 days, then switch to weekly
“Largely because people find it overwhelming to get too many messages via chat from a company, and so if you're coming in daily, your unsubscribes increase, I've been close to the companies that make software that manages this, they're finding the same things t…”
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Warner: Entrepreneurs resist being led and insist on driving conversations
“Entrepreneurs just don't like to go along with anything that someone else does for them. Anything someone else is leading them towards. They want to feel like they're leading it.”
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Warner: Emulate short text messages with friends for chatbot copy
“Don't go long. Keep it short. If you really want to get a sense of how long you should make it or how it should feel, look at your text messages with some of your favorite people.”