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Fail fast, for sure. Give yourself one year to prove it. If you can't prove it in a year, move on. There are plenty of other interesting problems to solve.

Thanks!

Agree on all fronts. Right now it is an early adopter product with crappy registration requirements. And that's the founder writing this.

with 12 people $40k/month total burn is like paying each person around $30k/year annual salary when you factor in other expenses like equipment, telecom, travel, etc. So yeah, that…

@Michael -- give it another whirl. We've gone a lot past the initial alpha features. Our repeat usage is very high right now -- about 30% of users returning daily.

Yes, we agree. We are working to get rid of all the registration requirements. It was just a holdover from our alpha.

@augustus -- I encourage you to "dig" a little deeper. socialmedian = social news meets the social graph. Very different from Digg, although our roots are from their foundation. Wh…

Oh, and in case I forgot to mention, it's alpha :) so please send your feedback!

Hey guys. This is Jason Goldberg, from former Jobster. I started working on socialmedian in January. The team is myself and 9 awesome guys/gals in Pune, India. We're going scrappy,…

Michael -- this is from Jason Goldberg, founder of socialmedian in response to your question. First, let me say that this is ALPHA in every way -- there's very little polish and we…

Hey guys. you just need to go to www.socialmedian.com, click on "create an account" and enter the invite code "hacker" We've opened up 100 invites using this code today.

The big question in an iterative agile development model is WHEN is the right time to "ship" the product to the public? Do you stay stealth until you have the product fully baked -…

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