Eric Migicovsky
22 statements across 3 episodes · 3 bullish · 5 bearish · 1 people on the record · first statement Oct 12, 2018 by Eric Migicovsky · said 2 times in 1 episodes since 2019 · across every show →
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Oct 12, 2018 neutral
Migicovsky: WhatsApp first launched on the FlyerTalk travel forums in 2009
“You know where the WhatsApp guy posted his app first in back in 2009?
[2266] Adora Cheung: No.
[2266] Eric Migicovsky: He posted it on FlyerTalk.
[2268] Eric Migicovsky: Forums, which is, like, a whole bunch of, like, geeky business people who fly a lot.
[22…”
Oct 12, 2018 negative
Migicovsky: Hardware startups should hack existing products instead of hiring design firms
“Don't hire, like, An industrial design firm to build you some new design. Don't hire, like, an engineering firm that promises to do a custom design for you, because that'll cost hundreds of thousands of dollars, and it probably will be the wrong product, versu…”
Oct 12, 2018 positive
Migicovsky: A Medical Device MVP Requires Peer-Reviewed Science and Clearance Roadmap
“For medical devices, I think the MVP is successfully peer-reviewed science that supports what you're working on, that, that there's an, that there's some sort of opportunity here, and a kind of understanding of what your path to clearance is.”
Oct 12, 2018 positive
Oct 12, 2018 negative
Migicovsky: Early hardware startups cannot pay contractors enough to care like founders
“Some of the most painful moments of my early career were, ah, not having full-time co-founders, and having to work with contractors or consultants who, honestly, like, you can't pay someone enough to care. I mean, firstly because you probably don't have that m…”
Oct 12, 2018
Migicovsky: Pebble Recruited Seven College Friends in Days Post-Kickstarter
“Right after we kind of hit on Kickstarter, we were only two people at the company. Two full-time people and two interns, and so we had, like, nobody, and all of a sudden we needed to hire people, and we could have spent, you know, three to six months hiring a …”
Oct 12, 2018
Oct 12, 2018 neutral
Migicovsky: Early scooter startups began by gluing modems onto Alibaba Xiaomi scooters
“A good example of this would be kind of the scooter companies. They took Xiaomi scooters, you know, nine-bought scooters, and they just glued on cell modems. That's it. That, that's how scooter sharing started. It's like cell modems in GPS plus scooter. They d…”
Oct 12, 2018 negative
Oct 12, 2018 neutral
Jul 25, 2019 negative
Migicovsky: Asking users hypothetical feature questions yields bad data
“Second mistake that we pretty much all make is we talk about hypotheticals. We talk about what our product could be. We talk about features that we want to build. We ask questions like we ask questions like, if we built this Feature. Would you be interested in…”
Jul 25, 2019
Migicovsky: Customers Not Seeking Solutions Won't Care About New Products
“If customers, if potential customers are not already exploring potential solutions to their problem, it's possible that the problem that you're trying to solve is not a burning enough problem for customers for them to be even interested in your better solution…”
Jul 25, 2019
Eric Migicovsky pitched Pebble at CES in coffee shops without a booth
“I remember that when I was working on Pebble we actually went to CES, which is this large consumer electronics show in Vegas. We didn't have a booth. We just went in gorilla style. We just like randomly started setting up in setting up meetings with potential …”
Jul 25, 2019 positive
Migicovsky: User interviews must extract data, not pitch or sell
“The goal of a great user interview is to extract information from the person that you're talking to extract data that will help you improve the product, or improve your marketing, or improve your positioning. It is not to sell them on using your product.”
Jan 24, 2020
Migicovsky: Startups should test hypotheses by layering MVPs on existing products
“One of the hacks that I like to use at this stage is to actually layer the MVP onto the existing product. So for example, if there's already some software that your users, not your users, like the people in the community are already using to track their compet…”
Jan 24, 2020 negative
Migicovsky: Patents are not a critical initial step for startups
“This is, like, one of those things that people who are not in the startup world think is a critical piece of starting a business, because they may have heard of, like, someone else who got screwed out of their idea or something like that. But if you're startin…”
Jan 24, 2020
Migicovsky: Developers prematurely shoot down ideas before evaluating potential upside
“I think too often, especially, like, developers, we're already internalizing the, like, How difficult things are going to be to build when we might not have understood, like, the potential benefit from building this, and it's always a trade-off. So, like, go b…”
Jan 24, 2020
Migicovsky: Early startups need unscalable feedback because founders do not know what questions to ask
“The reason in this case is actually you don't know the questions to ask yet, and so you want a really high bandwidth A really wide, broad way of collecting feedback, because you don't know the questions that you want to ask yet”
Jan 24, 2020
Migicovsky: Target problems customers are already actively attempting to solve
“Those are usually the problems that I like to start with because Like the person's already trying to find a solution. So they're primed when you come to talk to them, like to be excited and to try it versus you having to like pitch them hard and like changing …”
Jan 24, 2020 neutral
Jan 24, 2020
Migicovsky: Startup one-liners should explain current product rather than all-encompassing visions
“Here's actually a problem that a lot of founders run into, is they think that their one-liner or their short description has to encompass, like, everything that they'll ever do under the ends of the earth, because they think that, like, investors only will get…”
Jan 24, 2020
Migicovsky: Build MVPs around the smallest action with outsized impact
“The way that I would start building an MVP is kind of like what we mentioned at the beginning. It's taking what you already do on a regular basis, like maybe you go to meetups, maybe you, like, are on Reddit for the subreddit of that city, and, like, think cle…”