Conference Presentation
Office Hours at Startup School NY 2014
- The platform aims to first establish an efficient job market for salary pricing before evolving into a "stock market for jobs," with initial focus on employer tools that display predicted salaries to inform offers.
- Growth strategy involves building viral features like friend invitations and early acquisition targeting 1,000 users via college campuses using student representatives and catering partnerships, acknowledging that channels like Hacker News and Reddit do not scale indefinitely.
- User acquisition will leverage immediate friend networks for weekly feedback and validation within the first few weeks, supplemented by App Store submission to smooth distribution despite limited traction.
- Mobile app development is scheduled for release within two to three weeks, featuring alerts, location-based search, and simplified focus on specific user segments to prevent data quality issues from web testing.
- Long-term roadmap includes expanding prediction granularity over a two-year period to allow users to crowdsource salary data from peers at specific companies and roles.
- Product evolution plans to communicate environmental impact data, such as "five and a half dollars of inputs behind that [food waste]," to vendors and users in the future.
- Success validation depends on users achieving tangible results, such as securing a 20% raise, before expanding to areas beyond core employee value determination.