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If you know me, I could really care less about the traffic one article brings. Here's what I do care about: the comment I would have gotten - "Give us examples please" So I gave everyone examples of what we did.
I do know you - you're the type of person that calls people who try to do you favors & curse them out for not being able to get your startup on techcrunch.
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I do know you - you're the type of person that calls people who try to do you favors & curse them out for not being able to get your startup on techcrunch.
Whatever you're talking about I think you've mistaken HN for your inbox. Please take it to email, whatever your beef is. Public mudslinging is to nobody's benefit.
My opinion of him is not one worth discussing here.
Great list, but I don't think you need the detailed spec. Same problem as usual in developoment: the spec will be outdated by the time you're even half done, when you're finished with the first version of the product your detailed spec will be so woefully out of date (or a huge time sink to keep updated) that you'll end up rewriting it. What you do need is a defined documentation of your internal/public API's. If the…
Disclaimer - Ripped off from my favorite Douglas MacArthur Qoute:
"I have always found that plans are useless, but planning is indispensable."
Good real-world stories and inspiration, Jason!
Also, Jason, for an app (padpressed) that promises increased usability, the text on the homepage is awfully hard to read. Here's how it renders in Chrome for OS X:
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500% agree here. You should write something about this. (My newest crusade is to get anyone with any experience to start writing).
Does there exist a library of the "best" startup focused articles written across the net? Kind of a Digg-fashion voting system?
I think this post is great but the period after launch is seriously underexposed in all these 'how to start-up' articles. Typically, if you're a hands-on person with the right attitude sooner or later you'll figure this part out. Posts like this can help you ease the pain a bit but then what? You've just launched, you have a few paying customers (but not enough to be profitable), your initial press powder has been sh…
500% agree here. You should write something about this. (My newest crusade is to get anyone with any experience to start writing).
I can't speak for anyone else but I come to HN to be informed and inspired. There's so much potential here that is lost on pointless debates.
Aren't we all in the same boat here, trying to reach a distant goal?
I think this post is great but the period after launch is seriously underexposed in all these 'how to start-up' articles. Typically, if you're a hands-on person with the right attitude sooner or later you'll figure this part out. Posts like this can help you ease the pain a bit but then what? You've just launched, you have a few paying customers (but not enough to be profitable), your initial press powder has been sh…
I believe your POV is fairly subjective - I've run e-commerce ops with $15k+ in revenue from "month one". It matters how much effort you are putting into marketing - SEO, Blogging, Affiliates, SEM, Display ads, PR, Retargeting, A/B Testing (& direct mail, telemarketing if they're the right fit for your product)... Testing & optimizing these before launch is critical to gaining a steady flow of traffic & customers. If…
Making $15k in revenue from HDTVs might mean you are in trouble. Then you take into consideration costs of direct marketing, telemarketing, display ads, SEM, etc., and you may be in a really tough spot.
However, if you make $15k in the first month for a scalable software product, then you are in a good position to start growing.
I think it's not so much about the launch, but about your first 10 or 100 customers. Regardless of the TC/M!/RRW/HN posts, if you manage to get 100 or even 10 customers, you already have mitigated a lot of the risks that make companies fail: Finding someone that will pay for your product.
I think it was on a steve blank presentation that said something along the lines of:
The reason of why most companies fail, 90% of the time, is not their technology but failure to find paying customers.
Thus, if you launch AND you have paying customers, it means you must be doing something right. Launching alone does not mean anything.
How to masquerade self-publicism as a how to?
No, it's passing experience on to others so they can benefit from it, aka teaching.
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I believe your POV is fairly subjective - I've run e-commerce ops with $15k+ in revenue from "month one". It matters how much effort you are putting into marketing - SEO, Blogging, Affiliates, SEM, Display ads, PR, Retargeting, A/B Testing (& direct mail, telemarketing if they're the right fit for your product)... Testing & optimizing these before launch is critical to gaining a steady flow of traffic & customers. If…
15K of revenue on your first day is absolutely amazing, what site was that?
I've run e-commerce ops with $15k+ in revenue from "month one".
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I believe your POV is fairly subjective - I've run e-commerce ops with $15k+ in revenue from "month one". It matters how much effort you are putting into marketing - SEO, Blogging, Affiliates, SEM, Display ads, PR, Retargeting, A/B Testing (& direct mail, telemarketing if they're the right fit for your product)... Testing & optimizing these before launch is critical to gaining a steady flow of traffic & customers. If…
I think that e-commerce is a bit different if it deals with physical goods. $15k in revenue may or not be significant depending how much you are investing in acquiring the goods, and how expensive they are. Making $15k in revenue from HDTVs might mean you are in trouble. Then you take into consideration costs of direct marketing, telemarketing, display ads, SEM, etc., and you may be in a really tough spot. However, i…
I was talking about low cost goods, like toasters, hand vacs, etc - avg ticket of $75-150
