20 VC 017: BETAWORKS WEEK: Kuan Huang, Founder @ Poncho

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🗓️ 16 October 2015

⏱️ 24 minutes

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Kuan Huang, is the Founder of Poncho an internally built company at Betaworks. A simpler weather service with a personality, delivered to you every day. Prior to creating Poncho, Kuan was a Hacker in residence at Betaworks and as he describes the luckiest engineer at Hatch Labs a mobile focused startup incubator funded by IAC.

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In Today's Episode You Will Learn:

1.) How did Kuan get into the world of Betaworks and what was Kuan's aha moment for Poncho?

2.) What was wrong with weather apps when Kuan started Poncho? What made Kuan think there was a gap in the market?

3.) Kuan said in an interview with TechCrunch “The core objective is to have Poncho become a default part of your routine,” How has Kuan gone about to ensure that there are habit forming functions in poncho? What makes the user come back? Does Kuan prefer mass market testing or niche 100 person testing?

4.) What role does Betaworks play in the development of Poncho? What are the main value adds of being a Betaworks company?

5.) Looking back at the Poncho journey so far, what were the breakthrough moments where progress was really made? What were the most challenging elements and how did Kuan overcome them?

6.) What would Kuan advise a founder looking to work with Betaworks? Is there anything they can do to increase their chances of a collaboration?

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Kuan's Fave Reading Material: Medium, Instapaper

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0:00.0	You're listening to the 20-minute VC and the third and final instalment of our feature of one of the world's most successful startup studios, Betaworks, who have invested in the likes of BuzzFeed, Medium and Tumblr.
0:13.0	And for today's very special episode of Founders Friday, we can meet one of Beatow's current internally built startups in the form of Kwan,
0:22.7	the founder of Poncho, a simpler weather service with a personality delivered to you every day.
0:29.3	And prior to creating Poncho, Kwan was a hacker in residence at BetaWorks,
0:34.0	and as he describes, he was an engineer at Hatch Labs and Mobile Focus startup incubator
0:39.9	funded by IAC and Extreme Venture.
0:43.4	However, I would like to direct your attention to one of Beatwork's investments on the West Coast
0:47.7	as well in the amazing Product Hunt, and you must check out Product Hunt's new podcast
0:52.8	session, which for me is the best discovery platform for finding new and amazing podcast episodes.
0:59.2	Also, would you like the chance to win a signed copy of the legendary venture deals by Bradfeld?
1:05.6	Well, all you have to do is click the click-to-tweet link included in the show notes on iTunes
1:10.3	and found on the website
1:11.7	at www.the 20 minute VC.com all in letters and when you do that you'll be entered into the
1:18.4	competition for a chance to win a signed copy of the legendary venture deals by Bradfeld.
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