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sometimes Founders are afraid of asking the like the dumb question but that's a |
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有时创始人害怕问类似愚蠢的问题,但这是一个 |
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worthwhile question to ask but if you can help your customer make more money |
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这是一个值得问的问题,但您是否可以帮助您的客户赚更多钱 |
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they're probably gonna like you this is Michael cybo with Dalton |
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他们可能会喜欢你 这是 Michael cybo 和 Dalton |
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Caldwell and today we're going to talk about how do you give more than you take |
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考德威尔和今天我们要谈谈如何付出比索取更多 |
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from your users maybe we should start with kind of a business 101 right like |
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从你的用户那里,也许我们应该从某种业务 101 开始,就像 |
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MBA in 30 seconds what do you think okay so the basic idea underpinning all uh |
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30 秒内获得 MBA 你觉得怎么样,所以支撑这一切的基本思想呃 |
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technological progress um very basic stuff is if you sell someone |
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技术进步,嗯,非常基本的事情是,如果你卖掉某人 |
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a tool and if they can use the tool to make more money than the tool cost them |
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一个工具,以及他们是否可以使用该工具赚到比该工具花费更多的钱 |
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boom you're creating value when people like it and so you know some very basic |
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当人们喜欢它时,你就创造了价值,所以你知道一些非常基本的知识 |
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examples Google when they first launched Google ads it was very easy to buy |
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谷歌的例子 当他们第一次推出谷歌广告时,很容易购买 |
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Google ads you you would pay Google per click and you could sell stuff for way |
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谷歌广告你你会支付谷歌每次点击,你可以以某种方式出售东西 |
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more than you paid Google so you would just do that all day long and make tons |
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比你付给谷歌的钱还要多,所以你整天这样做就能赚到很多钱 |
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of money right very straightforward makes sense um talk about Excel and |
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金钱的权利非常简单明了,嗯谈论 Excel 和 |
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Microsoft Office Microsoft Office is a perfect example if you think about word |
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Microsoft Office 如果您想到 Word,Microsoft Office 就是一个完美的例子 |
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or you think about Excel these are products that made normal office workers |
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或者您想到 Excel,这些产品让普通办公室工作人员受益匪浅 |
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and normal kind of Financial workers literally like 10 do 100 times more |
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而普通的金融工作者实际上喜欢 10 次多做 100 次 |
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productive yeah and so if you can make an employee 10 times more productive |
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生产力是的,所以如果你能让员工的生产力提高 10 倍 |
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people probably buy and like that's cool buying a computer back in the 80s was |
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人们可能会在 80 年代购买一台电脑,并认为这很酷 |
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expensive and buying Visa calc or whatever was expensive but it was still |
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昂贵,购买 Visa calc 或其他东西很贵,但仍然很贵 |
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way positive Roi like five grand 10 grand no sweat because spreadsheets made |
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积极的 Roi 就像 5 大 10 大 不费吹灰之力,因为电子表格制作 |
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them better yes okay classic examples so |
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他们更好 是的 好的 经典例子 所以 |
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let's get to the problem there are a lot of Founders out there that are building |
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让我们来解决这个问题,有很多创始人正在建设 |
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products that deliver no or minimum value to the user classic fear is always |
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无法为用户提供任何价值或提供最低价值的产品总是令人恐惧 |
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like well I need to grow right the most important thing is to grow in order to |
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同样,我需要成长,最重要的是成长,以便 |
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raise money and so I'm gonna build something that kind of sucks |
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筹集资金,所以我要建造一些很糟糕的东西 |
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because like or screw that it sucks right because most MVPs suck I'm going |
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因为喜欢或者搞砸了,这很糟糕,因为大多数 MVP 都很糟糕,我要去 |
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to build something that doesn't solve anyone's problem and just try to get |
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建造一些不能解决任何人问题的东西,只是试图得到 |
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money for it so that I can go raise money I think that's yeah it's like it's |
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钱,这样我就可以去筹集资金,我想是的,就像这样 |
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make something VCS want it's like something perverted yes thing that we |
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做一些VCS想要的东西,就像是一些变态的东西,是的,我们 |
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are not fans of yes where you're like well superficially this resembles a |
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不是“是”的粉丝,从表面上看,这就像一个 |
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software product that superficially people pay for yes yes and therefore we |
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表面上人们付费的软件产品是的,因此我们 |
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should charge a similar amount of money for it and like boom boom the specifics |
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应该收取类似金额的费用,并且像繁荣繁荣一样,具体细节 |
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of what it does is details you know we we've got our top folks on that yes but |
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它的作用是细节,你知道我们有我们的高层人员在这方面,是的,但是 |
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we've talked about that before so that's that's an obvious yeah I think there's |
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我们之前已经讨论过这一点,所以这是显而易见的,是的,我认为有 |
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another one which is this fear of being a consultant I think one of the reasons |
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另一个是对成为顾问的恐惧,我认为这是原因之一 |
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why people build shitty products that don't solve people's problems is that |
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为什么人们制造出不能解决人们问题的劣质产品是因为 |
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when they start talking to a user and the user starts saying well here's my |
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当他们开始与用户交谈并且用户开始说好这是我的 |
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problem I could really use this this and this the founder starts thinking about |
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问题我真的可以使用这个这个这个创始人开始思考 |
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that and thinking and fearing what if this user is different from every other |
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思考并担心如果这个用户与其他用户不同怎么办 |
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user what if the problem they have is different and so what if I have to build |
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如果用户遇到的问题不同怎么办,如果我必须构建怎么办 |
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something to make them happy I have to build something that no one else wants I |
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一些让他们高兴的东西 我必须建造一些没有人想要的东西 |
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think this is a core fear that happens because I think that every found in the |
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我认为这是一种核心恐惧,因为我认为在 |
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back of their head thank you Reid Hoffman is thinking when can I get to |
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他们的后脑勺谢谢你雷德霍夫曼正在考虑我什么时候可以到达 |
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Blitz scale like when when can I raise the big round and throw this everywhere |
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闪电战规模就像我什么时候可以举起大轮并将其扔得到处都是 |
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and you know have everyone use my thing and every founder knows in their heart |
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你知道让每个人都使用我的东西并且每个创始人心里都知道 |
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that if they're not making a simple thing that everyone's going to use they |
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如果他们不做一个每个人都会使用的简单的东西 |
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can't put scale it so I think this is the core fear |
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无法衡量它,所以我认为这是核心恐惧 |
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I'm fearing being a consultant and It's tricky because like this isn't wrong |
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我害怕成为一名顾问,这很棘手,因为这样并没有错 |
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yeah there's a kernel there's a there is |
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a good idea in there yeah like there's a good there is an insight there is an |
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那里有一个好主意,是的,就像有一个好主意,有一个洞察力,有一个 |
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Insight but I might argue it's exactly wrong when you're early maybe we should |
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有洞察力,但我可能会说,当你还早的时候,这是完全错误的,也许我们应该 |
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talk about that like what's the difference between being early and maybe |
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谈论这个问题,比如早到和也许有什么区别 |
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not even understanding the problem well and being way later on when like |
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甚至没有很好地理解这个问题,并且在像这样的时候才很晚 |
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being consultant is maybe more of a risk I think if you're not a deep expert on |
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我认为,如果你不是这方面的资深专家,担任顾问可能会面临更大的风险 |
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what the customer's problems are and how they make money and how they work most |
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客户的问题是什么以及他们如何赚钱以及他们如何工作最多 |
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Founders you make assumptions about how their business should work which could |
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创始人对他们的业务应该如何运作做出假设,这可能会 |
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be mistaken so again when the founders of Google started Google I would imagine |
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当谷歌的创始人创办谷歌时,我会再次犯这样的错误 |
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they were not experts on Performance Marketing and how basically a lot of the |
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他们不是效果营销方面的专家,而且基本上很多 |
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early Google customers as I recall were mortgage refinance people yeah where |
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我记得早期的 Google 客户是抵押贷款再融资人员 是的,在哪里 |
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they they would buy people searching for mortgage refinancing the advertisers |
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他们会购买那些寻找抵押贷款再融资的人广告商 |
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would buy those clicks and they were worth a lot of money to them there you |
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会购买这些点击,它们对他们来说值很多钱 |
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go and the founders of Google did not need to be experts on that but as they |
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谷歌的创始人不需要是这方面的专家,但他们 |
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as they got users and they built the business model understanding what |
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当他们获得用户并建立商业模型时,他们了解什么 |
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problems the the customers had was super |
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客户遇到的问题非常严重 |
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important yes right I mean what are some other examples of like I mean we've |
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重要的是,是的,我的意思是还有哪些其他例子,就像我的意思是我们已经 |
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we've talked about this before but the classic examples with twitch like we did |
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我们之前已经讨论过这个问题,但是像我们一样的 twitch 的经典例子 |
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not understand what streamers wanted until not only do we talk to them we |
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不明白主播想要什么,直到我们不仅与他们交谈 |
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started building things and so I think that like |
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开始建造东西所以我认为就像 |
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maybe the issue here is that if you be if you're being consultant early |
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也许这里的问题是,如果你是,如果你很早就成为顾问 |
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what you don't end up doing is learning enough about the customer and so the |
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你最终没有做的是充分了解客户,因此 |
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counter and true advice we're giving is basically |
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我们给出的反驳和真实建议基本上是 |
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forget your fear about it being consultant early |
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尽早忘记对成为顾问的恐惧 |
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dig in with some customers actually solve their problem and in the process |
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与一些客户深入交流,真正解决他们的问题,并在此过程中 |
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maybe you're building some stuff that's went off yeah but you're going to learn |
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也许你正在构建一些失败的东西,是的,但你会学到东西 |
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a ton about the actual problem and then you'll have some insights on okay what's |
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more generalizable what can I do that I can give to everyone and ideally |
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更概括地说,我能做些什么,我可以为每个人提供最好的帮助 |
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understand the levers in their business that derives economic value like |
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了解其业务中产生经济价值的杠杆,例如 |
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basically like don't make assumptions that you think you know how they make |
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基本上就像不要做出你认为你知道他们是如何做的假设 |
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money or should make money yes kind of test those assumptions and once you have |
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钱或应该赚钱是的,测试这些假设,一旦你有了 |
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a better mental model that it's much it's much more clear how you drive |
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更好的心理模型,让你的驾驶方式更加清晰 |
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economic value and what's funny is you can even ask them like you can even say |
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经济价值,有趣的是你甚至可以像你可以说的那样问他们 |
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like how can this help you make more money like you can literally you |
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就像这如何能帮助你赚更多的钱,就像你真的可以赚更多的钱一样 |
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sometimes Founders are afraid of asking the like the dumb question but that's a |
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有时创始人害怕问类似愚蠢的问题,但这是一个 |
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worthwhile question to ask if you can help your customer make more money |
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是否可以帮助客户赚更多钱是一个值得问的问题 |
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they're probably gonna like you I think one other area this applies that's |
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他们可能会喜欢你我认为这适用于另一个领域 |
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counterintuitive is even in your customer Outreach because I think that a |
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甚至在你的客户外展中也是违反直觉的,因为我认为 |
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lot of times Founders when they're reaching out to |
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customers even in that moment they're asking for more than they're giving |
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客户即使在那一刻他们要求的比他们给予的还要多 |
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right we see these emails all the time where you know hey I'm building X Y and |
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是的,我们一直看到这些电子邮件,你知道嘿我正在构建 X Y 并且 |
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Z software do you have 20 minutes to jump on the phone with me to talk about |
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Z软件你有20分钟的时间跳电话跟我聊聊吗 |
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it you know is that not the definition of asking |
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你知道这不是询问的定义 |
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well I just want feedback yeah give me feedback your time customer Discovery |
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好吧,我只是想要反馈,是的,给我反馈你的时间客户发现 |
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yeah your time is clearly worth nothing like and I need you to help me and I |
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是的,你的时间显然一文不值,我需要你帮助我,我 |
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think one of the things I've seen that works so much better in the initial |
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想想我见过的一件事在最初的时候效果更好 |
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Outreach is when you actually offer something you should give value up front |
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外展是指当你真正提供一些东西时,你应该预先给予价值 |
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now we had one company in the current batch that basically was helping with |
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现在我们当前批次中有一家公司基本上正在帮助 |
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customer onboarding and they did this in |
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客户入职,他们这样做是在 |
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the most simple way they actually took a video of the customer's onboarding flow |
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他们实际拍摄客户入职流程视频的最简单方法 |
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of the company's onboarding flow and then provided their advice and feedback |
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了解公司的入职流程,然后提供建议和反馈 |
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on what they could do to make it better now one that's the definition of |
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他们现在可以做些什么来让它变得更好,这就是 |
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Consulting right two absolutely doesn't scale but when they started sending |
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咨询右边的两个绝对无法扩展,但是当他们开始发送时 |
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emails with that content in there when they started giving us the first step |
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当他们开始向我们提供第一步时包含该内容的电子邮件 |
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with a customer started replying saying thank you I can use that like yeah I'm |
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一位顾客开始回复说谢谢,我可以使用它,就像是的,我是 |
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happy to talk to you about how you're thinking make this even better so I |
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很高兴与您谈论您的想法如何让这变得更好,所以我 |
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think in Outreach and in building your first products and dealing with your |
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思考外展、构建你的第一个产品以及处理你的问题 |
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first 10 customers you can give more than you receive let's |
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您可以给予的前 10 位客户比您收到的更多 |
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put this in historical context though because this giving before you receive |
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is not new yeah this is a whole broad topic but just quick crash course the |
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不是新的,是的,这是一个广泛的话题,但只是快速速成课程 |
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the history of computers involves giving away a lot of value for free |
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计算机的历史涉及免费赠送大量价值 |
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specifically the original business models of computer companies were to |
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具体来说,计算机公司最初的商业模式是 |
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sell hardware and software was like a thing you had to give the customer to to |
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销售硬件和软件就像你必须交给客户的一件事 |
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run the hardware to get value from it yes and so historically software was |
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运行硬件以从中获取价值是的,所以历史上软件是 |
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just free and not really proprietary and this is beyond the scope of this talk |
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只是免费的而不是真正专有的,这超出了本次演讲的范围 |
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here but if you research the history of Microsoft people in the audience Bill |
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在这里,但是如果你研究一下观众比尔中微软人的历史 |
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Gates kind of pioneered the guilt trip to get people to pay for things I don't |
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盖茨开创了内疚之旅,让人们为我不为之付出代价 |
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know go read his letter I'm not going to do a justice but the the the idea of |
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知道去读他的信我不会伸张正义,但这个想法 |
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proprietary software and charging for it was like maybe the late 70s |
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专有软件和收费就像 70 年代末 |
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um and you know before that there was the free software movement which equated |
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嗯,你之前知道有自由软件运动,它等同于 |
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software and code to Freedom many of the tools the power all everything to this |
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软件和代码的自由许多工具为这一切提供动力 |
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day were created by hippies created by people with big ideals created by people |
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日子是由嬉皮士创造的,由有远大理想的人们创造的 |
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that wanted to give more value than they |
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想要提供比他们更多的价值 |
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receive so if you look at the history of GCC of all the compilers if you look at |
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如果你查看所有编译器的 GCC 历史,就会收到这样的信息 |
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Linux the Linux kernel if anyone runs an Android phone |
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Linux Linux 内核(如果有人运行 Android 手机) |
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that's all free software there'd be no Google there'd be no YouTube without |
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这都是免费软件,没有 Google 就没有 YouTube |
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Linux powering all the stuff yep um the same would get like every web browser |
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Linux 为所有东西提供动力,是的,就像每个网络浏览器一样 |
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gecko cage ttml you can research this thing also um sqlite is this free |
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壁虎笼 ttml 你也可以研究这个东西 嗯 sqlite 是免费的 |
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database that's in everything like I'll bet to just watch this video stream |
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数据库无所不在,就像我打赌只看这个视频流一样 |
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sqlite is involved like 50 different ways how many free products do you |
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sqlite 涉及 50 种不同的方式,您有多少免费产品 |
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actually need and so this is part of the history of software and Computing and |
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实际需要,所以这是软件和计算历史的一部分 |
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technology is to give out all this value and realize the value that it's created |
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技术就是要给出所有这些价值并实现它所创造的价值 |
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can create enough economic value for the creators for the people that make this |
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可以为创造者、为创造这个的人们创造足够的经济价值 |
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stuff yes and also just unlock more value in the world than what |
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是的,而且还可以释放世界上更多的价值 |
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they charge yes right and this is why this is why the graph of how |
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他们收费是对的,这就是为什么这就是为什么图表如何 |
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technological progress is accelerating so fast is this factor of giving more |
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技术进步速度如此之快,这就是给予更多的因素 |
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than you receive yes and if you take some of their inspiration when you're |
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比你收到的是,如果你接受他们的一些灵感,当你 |
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building your products Maybe you can have some wild success yeah I |
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打造你的产品也许你可以取得一些巨大的成功是的我 |
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think like if you leave a lot of the value on the table for your customers |
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想想如果你为你的客户留下很多价值 |
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instead of trying to take it all yes then you're in the game and and the key |
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而不是试图接受一切,是的,那么你就在游戏中,而且关键 |
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let's be clear is your product actually has to solve the |
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让我们明确的是你的产品实际上必须解决 |
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customer's problem like it all comes back to like all those free products all |
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客户的问题就像所有这些都回到了喜欢所有这些免费产品 |
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the products people pay for they actually solve the customer's problem |
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人们付费购买的产品实际上解决了客户的问题 |
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and so if you can do that in the early stage instead of being afraid of |
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所以如果你能在早期阶段做到这一点而不是害怕 |
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consulting or afraid of fundraising bam you have an advantage all right man |
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咨询或害怕筹款,嗯,你有优势,好吧,伙计 |
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