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Hey It’s Alex from oQQur here.

When I started oQQur, doing something different was my goal. After years of experience with start-ups, I came to understand what did and did not work.

There are never two same start-ups. That’s what makes it hard to win multiple times. As vague as it sounds, the true winners don’t learn the mechanics of start-ups, but they learn how to navigate uncertainty and open up for luck.

What have I learned? The top priorities for a founder is to search a path of clarifying the uncertainties around the following:

A customer desire, goal, or need A product or service that fulfill that need A way to get those customers a rate lower than what the customer brings It sounds pretty straightforward, but as usual, it’s way more nuanced.

It’s an art to be able to identify the customer, and their needs well enough to make a difference in their lives. The solution? Really get to know your audience. To be honest, meeting a massive amount of amazing people that care about the same problem is my favourite part. However, it does come at a cost - managing calls, feedback, product features all at the same time gets overwhelming to say the least.

At this point, with oQQur, I have an incredible opportunity. I get to build a community around building my startup, get instant feedback from real people who care, and get to be accessible and transparent about every single step. Every mistake. Every win. Everything.

Join me!

I want to invite you on this journey. Help me as I learn to navigate through the astounding creator economy market, while meeting passionate creators. Here is what you can expect in near future: I’ll be streaming most weekdays for 4-6 hours.

Join me as I: Create my passion - oQQur. Reach out and meet creators who might become part of oQQur. Organize team meetings and behind the scenes development, like the design and decision making process. You can be involved in the process. Randomly stroll around the city and discover Barcelona, which I still haven’t completely explored, even though I’ve lived here for a few years. Watch new streamers appear, and observe them find their voice. I would love to invite you two this journey with me, not as an observer, but as an active participant.

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Learning a language takes a lot of time, effort and strategy, while also being pretty expensive. Most online resources focus on vocabulary and help you pick up a few sentences for particular situations. Which feels good when you first apply it, but leaves gaps in your grammar knowledge which are a pain to find and fill down the road.

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Thanks

Alex & Jake

You are absolutely correct! It is great notion, thanks for that. At the moment we are aiming for those one of 100 who contributes, and will try to reach them to help me shape the product. At the same time some people enter the search terms, further I hand pick "normal" terms and write definition myself, that is the way I am population it.

I just love your presentations) You understand clearly what was missing at keynote and what all of us expected. Apple is becoming average. The iPhone looks like it has been derived from what market wants, it did not break any rules, and showed us we are wrong and that they know a better way. It feels cold (rightly noticed). Please jiggity continue with your posts, its like "the proper apple keynote)