I'm sorry for being a total idiot - what does MVP stand for? :(
DomainPolish: From MVP To Exit In 6 Months
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#42I'm sorry for being a total idiot - what does MVP stand for? :(
Minimum Viable Product.
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#43Re: DomainPolish: From MVP To Exit In 6 Months
#44Ummmm, congrats, but it sold for $3,500 - that's not really an exit imo. It's like selling a decent domain name.
Sweet negativity, bro. An exit is an exit. He made something, and sold it FOR PROFIT in 6 months, while being in college. Pretty impressive.
If you're going to use that definition, then everything becomes an exit... Work 12 months to make $2500, less than you would make in 3 months working part time job at Wal-Mart, must be an exit. Flip a used car for a $300 profit, another exit! Put up a garage sale, exit again!
Seriously, it's a lesson learned, experience gained. Not an exit.
Edit: to the downvoters, when you use the words "hate", "love", "epic" to validate some relatively-minor (to actual meaning) event or emotion, you're taking meaning out of that word ... in some cases just to feed that meaning to your ego.
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#45Care to go more in depth about the pricing strategy? It seems as backwards as it gets. Had you seen it work somewhere else?
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#46Congrats on your first deal, Dan. Sounds like you learned some valuable lessons along the way. They will serve you will in the future. Cheers. PS: Will be interesting to see what new owner does with the site.
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#47Congrats, and thanks for sharing this.
The most interesting part of this post is the guy who wanted to build a service that reviews you online dating profile. That seems like something that has real potential.
In my experience, one of the most frustrating things about being on an online dating site is that it's really hard to get feedback from women about how your profile is perceived by them.
You send messages to a bunch of women and 90%+ never respond, but you have no idea why. I would pay $$$ to find out why they don't respond, and I'm sure that a lot of other people would as well (especially men).
Could this be built into a site like OKCupid? Perhaps some kind of revenue sharing arrangement (between reviewers and the dating site) where users pay to get feedback, and other users get paid to review the profiles of men or women who message them(or maybe even those who don't)...and it's anonymous feedback...or semi-anonymous.
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#48Congrats, and thanks for sharing this. The most interesting part of this post is the guy who wanted to build a service that reviews you online dating profile. That seems like something that has real potential. In my experience, one of the most frustrating things about being on an online dating site is that it's really hard to get feedback from women about how your profile is perceived by them. You send messages to a…
I really like the idea as well! From what I know the site didn't go anywhere because the minimum advertising commitment for dating websites is in the thousands. So I think he dropped the idea.
But definitely it could work for someone with some marketing skills and/or cash to burn. It's something that can be built in a weekend as well. Feel free to reach out to me and I can try to help point you in the right direction if you're interested in pursuing it.
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#49Congrats, and thanks for sharing this. The most interesting part of this post is the guy who wanted to build a service that reviews you online dating profile. That seems like something that has real potential. In my experience, one of the most frustrating things about being on an online dating site is that it's really hard to get feedback from women about how your profile is perceived by them. You send messages to a…
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#50Ummmm, congrats, but it sold for $3,500 - that's not really an exit imo. It's like selling a decent domain name.
Ummmm, congrats, but it sold for $3,500 - that's not really an exit imo. It's like selling a decent domain name.
What's the point of even being on an entrepreneurial site if you can't celebrate someone's first success?
For instance, Dan complains about screwing up the offer he accepted. If I was in his shoes, I'd be very happy to learn this lesson now rather than when looking at five or six-figure sums - let alone anything bigger! ;-)