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Tom Blomfield
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Tom Blomfield's personal blog at tomblomfield.com covers startups, business and career. Since 2012, 16 different Hacker News readers have linked it 35 times, most often “How we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years”. No feed was found, so read it on the site itself.
Tom Blomfield's blog
Most-linked posts?
- How we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2022-08-01
- The Age of Abundance3 people · 4 mentions · first linked 2025-04-02
- What is "founder mode"?2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-10-07
- Taking Risk2 people · 2 mentions · first linked 2024-05-20
What Hacker News says?
> And yet frame.io seems to be doing very well, it is popping up more and more places. The key is knowing who your target customer is and solve for them [0]. Then, you are in a good place where you either fire ones who aren't [1] or change your solution (rather, start with a burning, hair-on-fire problem your target customer has, not solutions) [2]. Typically in a b2b setting, one starts out by addressing all needs…
Comment linking /post/33506878578/making-something-people-want-the-gocardless
on “Ask HN: How do you validate demand for your side-project?”Submitted When to join a startup as a story · 338 points
HN discussionAnother ad for the YC school of doing these things > ...I’m a follower of Paul Graham and the YC camp of startup wisdom... http://tomblomfield.com/day/2015/12/13 From the CEO/co founder, GoCardless (YC S11) alum
Comment linking /day/2015/12/13
on “Monzo, a U.K. challenger bank, raises £85M Series E”Submitted How to Raise Investment as a story · 212 points
HN discussionI agree - I implemented it using Ruby, Sinatra & TwiML [1], but it should be a couple of clicks on Twilio. Come to think of it, they should really have some simple "If-this-then-that" style rules that non-developers could choose to implement a really simple IVR system. "If it's between 9am and 5pm GMT, then call 077xxxxxx" "If no-one picks up, then call 077xxx" "Else leave a voicemail". Why do I have to support a si…
Comment linking /post/17571449233/home-brew-customer-phone-support
on “Automating Customer Service at a Startup”Submitted Taking Risk as a story · 209 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automate Everything - the hacker way as a story · 146 points
HN discussionSubmitted Customer churn can kill your startup as a story · 108 points
HN discussionSubmitted How we got customers to sign up to Monzo in the early years as a story · 97 points
HN discussionSubmitted What is "founder mode"? as a story · 88 points
HN discussionSubmitted Making something people want - the GoCardless story as a story · 82 points
HN discussionSubmitted A crash course in startup metrics as a story · 72 points
HN discussionSubmitted Apple is propping up a fundamentally broken payments industry as a story · 49 points
HN discussionSubmitted Automating Customer Service at a Startup as a story · 36 points
HN discussionSubmitted Attracting great engineers as a story · 28 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to interview engineers as a startup as a story · 27 points
HN discussionSubmitted Don't write tests - The Hidden Cost of TDD as a story · 24 points
HN discussionSubmitted Technical Interviews at a Startup as a story · 23 points
HN discussionSubmitted When eating an elephant, take one bite at a time as a story · 17 points
HN discussionSubmitted Getting shit done as a story · 9 points
HN discussionSubmitted I hate meetings as a story · 6 points
HN discussionSubmitted Working with development deadlines as a story · 5 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of Abundance as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted Five Unbreakable Rules for Startups as a story · 4 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of Abundance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted The Age of Abundance as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Vibecoding a Production App as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Taking Risk as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted Monzo Growth as a story · 3 points
HN discussionSubmitted How to Raise Investment as a story · 3 points
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