Why a Brit chose to start a business in Berlin

Re:Why a Brit chose to start a business in Berlin by TamDenholm on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:23AM (#12683661)

Genuine question, Whats the business model for The Echo Chamber Club? I've always seen newsletters as a marketing tool for a business, rather than a business itself. Very interested to how you'd make money with it as a standalone business.

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Re:Why a Brit chose to start a business in Berlin by alicelthwaite on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:34AM (#12683748)

Hey Tam - thanks for your question. So my target market don't generally want to hear the topics I'm posting. They have to trust that I'm as liberal as they are before they start taking me seriously.

So it became clear that the most important part of the ECC was to create a trusted brand.

Otherwise, I spent about a year trying to figure out a solution to the filter bubble. I was looking at RSS feeds, new types of algorithms, and it was all very complicated. The idea of a newsletter MVP made sense.

After I get to about 5k subscribers I'll be putting on events - with the aim of creating a B2B qualitative research firm. But that's a long way off - who knows where the journey will take me.

Feel free to add me on twitter so we can discuss more - would love your thoughts! @alicelthwaite

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Re:Why a Brit chose to start a business in Berlin by justinclift on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:39AM (#12684242)

Just to check, you've seen this?

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=12557500

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Re:Why a Brit chose to start a business in Berlin by alicelthwaite on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @09:48AM (#12684314)

Oh dear - I've since moved hosting providers. Are you having issues now?

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Re:Why a Brit chose to start a business in Berlin by justinclift on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @05:33PM (#12688695)

Wasn't me. Just pointing it out in case you wanted to follow up. ;)

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Re:Why a Brit chose to start a business in Berlin by TamDenholm on Tuesday October 11, 2016 @08:45AM (#12683813)

Thanks for the reply, very interesting.

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