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Pivoting From Circle.So ( Retrorespective )

Pivoting From Circle.So ( Retrorespective ) Moving out of the circle.so eco system and it takes time to get out,.

Pivoting From Circle.So ( Retrorespective )

Moving out of the circle.so eco system and it takes time to get out,.

Understanding company building does not make sense at early stages

Focus on customer validation and discovery

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Makes sense for Ali

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Too early for Erdem

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Reach the scale before doing any hires!

Use contractors as mentors and lead generation ( 500 + 500 )

Need employees to be able to onboard learners in an active interaction ( cohorts )

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Erdems performance better spend on an online website than a closed platform

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Video is a product in itself > long form video

none organic move does not make sense

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Sales on validation should support the creation stage

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Not having a correct roadmap and trying to give value at all fronts does not make sense

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Save the initial member list

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https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/circle/FMfcgzGtvsdfvVSHVZRfdNKRDznDTXGc

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Focusing on jab jab makes more sense > than the left hook take your time

Cancel aspects to save 30 dollars a month

https://help.circle.so/c/member-billing/how-do-i-manage-my-membership-subscriptions

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https://devopsengineering.circle.so/settings/plans

Alis course the network aspect and the question answers also helps as people need people closer to their level

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Also the circle was for 1000 members

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I used it similar to slack > so whatsapp and upwork makes more sense for the contractors

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I used it more to manage the company not enough on content creating

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Pushing not organic sales does not make sense

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Stripe was not necessary > without the customer validation paid users

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Also Erdem selling his time and committing on a cohort also does not make sense

Circle did not look there a way to save the posts

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https://mail.google.com/mail/u/0/#search/circle/FMfcgzGtvsdfvVSHVZRfdNKRDznDTXGc

All Spaces created

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Even focusing on production problems is more important than company problems

Cameras versus morning meetings at 7

I did not find the main place in circle in 12 months

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images are lost wordpress is better

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Rewrite from the bottom and use it as a retro

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Images needs to be take manually with rescreenshots

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Have to start deleting from the top > pushes to the top

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Issues deleting

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Cached items

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Problem solution fit error as i cant show the current contract but that was expected.

too many post in the rifaterdemsahin.com ?

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Open multiple tabs and tell your story is your goal

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Epic fail Clipboard > Internal Team Emails >> creation and trying to teach people even there is no customers. Use 2 accounts one to share and one to use...that is enough dont over complicate with others emails.

Each cohort is a team effort

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I should have bought it and took it ( time )

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Average person would not be able to make the final table

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Also some who is making it

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Authentic and everyone with different concerns is the devops people you wanna connect?

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Similar people to ILKON as well but the numbers are there customer creation matters.

New Paid joiners has to be so high(customer creation) it should be meaining full to be a company and hire

Erdem cant only push it and be wishfull thinking on the subject. Live sessions makes more sense if the validation stage has passed and you scale for more customers

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Setting up a pay wall like Rob P. does not make sense even the validation has to be passed by paid users on organic traffic. He passed organic traffic without the validation. https://www.codestars.com/

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