A Few Good Men.Credit: Sony Pictures
The guys over at knowabout.it recently did a blog post where they gave Straight Answers to Tough Questions. Apparently they received these questions from a friend/Angel Investor who they don’t name. (To bad, I’d love to link back the original source of the questions.)
We’ve given most of these answers before in previous blog posts.
So, just in case any Angel Investors are out there looking at Bscopes and we don’t know it… here are our answers to these six questions:
1. What problem are you solving?
It’s the frustration from the eventual overload from too many sources of information to keep up with.
Bscopes addresses this problem of overload by picturing the massive information so that you can tell what things are hot at a glance for both general topics and your specific set of info.
2. Who is your target audience to use the product?
The most overloaded folks struggling to keep up with the fire hose of information coming at them all the time. Like who? Well, some folks recognized this early and have been complaining about this for quite a while. The rest of us will continue to feel this more and more in the future. Eventually, everyone will be on this list along with these folks at the front of the curve:
- Farhad Manjoo
- Horatio Nelson
- Ben Parr
- Steven Cahill
- Christophe Deschamps
- Erick Schonfeld
- Tris Hussey
- Ryan Spoon
- Mark Krynsky
- Ian Kennedy
- Rachel Lovinger
- Sarah Perez
3. How are you going to get it in their hands?
It’s ironic, the very people who most could use Bscopes to solve their information overload are too busy to being overloaded to find out about Bscopes. For a while now, we’ve written blog posts… We’ve coded features… We’ve commented on other people’s blogs… We’ve tweeted… So we are going to continue to try and tell anyone and everyone we can that there are tools out there to help with the overload. We’ve always thought of ourselves as a Purple Cow
4. Who is going to pay you money and what value are they going to garner (even if it’s a guess today)?
Who? The most overloaded of all those trying to keep up with the many blogs and changing content on the internet. The ones who don’t just want, but need, to keep up with more and more information every day. That’s why we are going with a Freemium model for now, right Fred?
What will they get?
- Relief from the pain of overload, and
- The right information, not just the ability to consume more information, and
- Guilt free use of the mark all read button.
And are those are things worth paying for? @lysglimt certainly thinks so.
5. Why are you better than the competition?
Bscopes is unique. It’s a picture, not just more text. A visualization, not simply filtering. We cut through the clutter by visualizing the blogosphere.
6. How can I help?
Well, if you are the mysterious Angel Investor, then you are welcome to help us quit our day jobs so we can focus on Bscopes full-time.
Everyone should come and participate in the Bscopes community
The biggest thing you can do right now is to tell someone that there is hope and point them to tools like Bscopes. Spread the word so we can continue to innovate.
And if you have something you’d like to tell us, the comment button is right below.
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