What I learned validating my first product idea on an email list of 268 people while living in Paris
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Last summer I was living in a tiny, 16-square meter apartment in Paris near Strasbourg-Saint Denis. The weather in July was HOT. I’d stick my chair on the desk and work at a makeshift standing desk with the window open. As inner-city Paris goes, Strasbourg-Saint Denis is pretty damn ghetto, so all sorts of streets … Continued