The theory laid out is that early childhood trauma gets stored in the body, and that there has to be a bottom-up approach to dealing with the afteraffects of this. A top-down approach that is purely cognitive won't suffice. I'm not yet at the treatment portion of the book, but it seems to exactly line up with this study and might be interesting for you.
Before reading it, I discovered that a regular sauna practice (alternating cold hot cycles) had major benefits on my trauma symptoms, both developmental and acute PTSD from a near death experience. Then I read the book and was gratified to find this approach studied/explained/validated. These days I recommend it to anyone with mental health concerns, which is basically everyone these days as far as I can tell.
This book on developmental trauma looks good as well, thanks for sharing.
I also hear that it's protection against a founder quitting. Though this to me seems dubious as I would guess that sole founders are much less likely to quit prematurely (for obvious reasons) than a co-founder.
What does it mean to be a $32M company? Based on whose valuation? I don't get why this number is such a prominent feature, and then is never explained. And is $32M a big number? Compared to who? This all seems strange to me.
Hanes Brands does $6.4 billion in sales for example (obviously including all of their business).
$32.6 million in sales is a small company in the underwear business. Men's underwear (boxers, boxer briefs, briefs) in just the US + Canada is a $5.x billion annual business at retail.
Sometimes some of these industries, not hyped like every tech companies and don't get much media attention from Business magazine, are just mind blogging big. And that is just Man! Which I assume spend comparatively VERY little money as compared to woman underwear.
P.S - From wiki "The premise is that men's underwear are a necessity in normal economic times and sales remain stable. " Am I the only one who don't think of it as necessity? Or is this a US thing?
I partnered with a Youtube teacher to create my video-based German language learning app.
She has a unique format of asking native Germans topical questions on the street and mixing in some grammar videos. And she is seriously beloved by language learners here in Berlin! We can barely walk down the street with her and her husband being recognized:
Im gonna guess here that shes not the founder of "easy german" so shes just part of that format, she didnt come up with it.
The "easy langauge" is simply a bigger brand/ org and they offer many languages with many "teachers".
I checked out you app and its pretty generic flashcard learning and video lectures which is what every language learning app is doing (zero innovation on your part). And you demand 12 or 15 eur for "advanced features". Makes me depressed if you earn any money on that.
I am 90% done developing a really good language app which is better then duolingo (which is the Marktleader) and my goal is to integrate it with actual language classes by cooperating with language schools.
The work is hard but I believe in increasing efficiency of learning by a factor of 10x - then people like you pump out these apps that dont even do anything new and demand 12 eur for it.
Posted a Prototype on reddit, and I plan on posting it on HN in a month or two.
I learned programming to build that platform, I have a job and I had to do it in parallel to my university. I hope some day I can work full time for it.
But to respond to you, I already showed it to real people, who took a dump on it, and the redesigns are partly what I am working on right now. After that is finished I will try to do a cooperation with my universities language department and do a test roll out.
There is a woman who did multiple Kickstarter campaigns for a language learning app and she raised like 100k, but 5 years later the app is horrible.
My goal is not the money but to build a perfect learning platform, so critique is welcome.
Your comment comes across as quite bitter, why not share your app and let your work speak for itself rather than degrading someone else’s efforts. If it’s as good as you say you won’t struggle to find users
https://www.amazon.com/dp/B007QMZ7Z8/ref=dp-kindle-redirect?...
The theory laid out is that early childhood trauma gets stored in the body, and that there has to be a bottom-up approach to dealing with the afteraffects of this. A top-down approach that is purely cognitive won't suffice. I'm not yet at the treatment portion of the book, but it seems to exactly line up with this study and might be interesting for you.