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Currently running around Park City trying to convince various hotels to give me some spoons, despite the fact that I’m not staying there and they have no reason to give me any spoons.

Feels like an early stage startup again.
A later-stage startup is basically calling five extremely busy people and saying, “Who are the five best spoons people you know?” Then trying to hire them
Perhaps not coincidentally the solution was to go to the most expensive hotel in the city, and they don’t really care about their spoons
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There are 229k job openings for "software engineer" in the United States on Indeed.

I wonder what the response/interview rate would be if you had someone with a solid portfolio, no degree, and no experience apply to, say, 10k of them? Just a cold application.

...brb
Let's say you apply to 10k jobs, which is a trivial amount of the total software engineering jobs out there.

If your interview hit rate is 1% (v low) you're talking 100 interviews. Could easily be 500 interviews (!)

if you can land 10% of the interviews that's 10-50 jobs
One human could probably apply to, say, 10 jobs/hr. You'd have to automate or outsource or you're looking 1,000 hrs just submitting applications.

If you have a virtual assistant that was $5/hr *just* manually submitting applications you're looking $.50/application.

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Time for a story, since @gustaf is asking for some stories about talking to users for a YC presentation.

This is how Lambda School was born, and it's way less sexy than everyone assumes.
We started out as an "online code bootcamp," and taught a huge free class to spur interest. We knew it was (and is) a super crowded market. So we just taught a free, month-long class, put up a paid version, and started asking everyone individually why they wouldn't join.
I was literally sending 1,000+ personalized emails per day *by hand*.

Pretty soon we realized literally everyone was saying, "That's awesome, but I can't afford the risk." So we started figuring out how to make it risk free.
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