Focus. Focus. Focus.

Post by krakensden » Thu, May 03, 2012, 2:14 AM UTC

debacle wrote: post #15

ezl wrote: post #14

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Thanks for the comment, debacle. To be clear, I'm not trying to say this is a good way to run a startup or that anyone should do it. In particular, I am really bad at doing more than one thing. It is one of my personal weaknesses. Some people, like my previous cofounder Andrew, are great at it. But as a result, I HAVE to be focused to get anything done. This isn't true of everyone, its just something that I finally r…

I don't want to make you feel like you've been called out. There are many startups with this vehicle for growth, and it seems to be the YC startup MO. Twitch.tv is possibly the best example of this phenomenon.

Post by garrett_smith » Thu, May 03, 2012, 2:21 AM UTC

whileonebegin wrote: post #17

bmelton wrote: post #10

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I disagree. If you can't link from your blog to your startup however you want, we're all in trouble. That he prefers it to rank for the type of thing that it does vs. its name is absolutely the choice of the author. I don't see anything 'grey hat' about having an understanding of SEO. That you admit that "it's good SEO" then question it is puzzling to me. Is there a reason I the author should prefer to use bad SEO on…

Good SEO is targeted towards computers rather than humans. In the case of this newsletter-style post, potential customers would probably want to click the product name to get more details, rather than clicking a series of words which might lead to the product web site or might lead to a Wikipedia page or something else. Since it was the first instance of the product name, I would have expected it to be linked. Hence,…