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Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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lpellis wrote: post #88

Congrats! It always amazes me that there are still big/old players in a field that I thought I was familiar with.. I have seen many A/B testing tools but somehow never yours, I must be living in a different Google bubble. Guess that shows that there is always room for more players.

Yep, and that's a great learning for us. For us, it's easy to assume that we've saturated our potential after being around ten years into the market but that's not true at all.

Your comment is a great reminder towards that.

Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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mcgrathpm11 wrote: post #24

Congrats, Paras. I've been a huge fan of VWO and fairly recently built somewhat of a competitor - evolv.ai. I've referenced your sales assets, training videos, and I have sent people your direction when they weren't a fit for our offering.

Thank you! We're also inspired by evolv.ai's unique take on website optimization.

Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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Post by paraschopra »

metadata wrote: post #3

Congratulations, Paras! I was one of the very early customers and am so glad you came this far.

Thank you for giving us revenue in those early days. As a bootstrapped company, that was the only source of funding that helped us sustain and grow.

Re: Thank HN: My startup was born here and is now 10 years old

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kalid wrote: post #21

Congrats Paras, it's great seeing far VWO has come!

Thanks Kalid. I remember exchanging messages with you.

Also, love BetterExplained.com - without it, I would have never developed an intuition of exponential and logarithm functions. You do a great job at that.

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Post by paraschopra »

pavlov wrote: post #7

Congratulations on the milestone, and thanks for sharing your story in the blog post. It's great to see a product's evolution over a decade. I want to highlight that it's not as clear-cut as this: "If you are what Paul Graham calls as relentless resourceful, you will build a successful business." I know there are people reading who consider themselves relentless and resourceful, yet are not successful after perhaps a…

Thank you.

I didn't mean it that way. Luck plays a huge role in success. But a back story will help explain why I said what I said.

Even in 2009, VWO wasn't my first attempt at a startup. Eve since I read Founders at Work in high school, I was inspired to do a startup of my own. So when I entered college in 2004, I immediately went about trying to do startups. Over the four years, I did 3 different startups (Kroomsa, MyJugaad.in, Precimark) and all of them failed. Then I launched Wingify (precursor to VWO) and that also didn't fly. Finally, my fifth attempt was VWO which led to this.

So, from my own experience, it seems luck is a function of how many shots you take and how much you learn from those failures.

I absolutely believe that the asymptotic result of being relentlessly resourceful is success (of some reasonable degree).

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