Congrats Paras. VWO has been my go-to A/B testing platform ever since everyone else either pivoted upmarket into six-figure “experience management platforms” or shut down (Google Experiments). I hope this won’t change!
Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
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Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#172That's an epic win! 15 years of the startup grind/rollercoaster is impressive, well done!
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#173Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is interesting how many stories in a way involve running or moving away from the lifestyle that ... bought them a new lifestyle.
When something consumes you so rabidly and ferociously for so long, and then is just gone (poof), it leaves you searching. Searching for recovery and meaning. It's 4 years later, and I'm still searching...
My discovery having gone through something similar: If something made you happy and gave you purpose before, it probably will again. So just do it again.
The second time around, you may discover that finding success, getting rich, etc., wasn't actually the reason you were doing it.
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#174Earlier quoted context omitted.
There is a luxury class at both ends of the economic spectrum, as Veblen observed.
*leisure, I suppose. I'd love to read more on that. Is that from "The Theory of the Leisure Class"?
Thank you for correcting. I can no longer edit the parent comment and was sleep deprived while writing it.
But yes!
Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#175@paras - I worked at Optimizely in the early days and led online marketing there from 2012 - 2016. I remember seeing your team copy our SEM strategy, so I added Hindu gods (shiva, vishnu, et al) to the UTM query params in our ads for your guys to dissect / get a laugh from. Congrats on the exit. really nice to see.
wanna join Rezi? we dont have a marketing team but get 4K signups a day
Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#176Why"startup"? It's just a businesses, nothing special
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#177(Co-founder of Optimizely here) Congrats! It was fun competing with you
Why "was"?
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#178Earlier quoted context omitted.
It is interesting how many stories in a way involve running or moving away from the lifestyle that ... bought them a new lifestyle.
When something consumes you so rabidly and ferociously for so long, and then is just gone (poof), it leaves you searching. Searching for recovery and meaning. It's 4 years later, and I'm still searching...
Zuckerberg said something along the lines of if he would have sold facebook, he would have gone on to build another facebook Is that how you feel? Ive spent the past 10 years building my company, I dont feel like another venture could compare (for now)
Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#179Why"startup"? It's just a businesses, nothing special
Eh? Did you really need to comment this?
Re: Thank HN: My bootstrapped startup got acquired today
#180Congratulations! Just curious, usually being purchased by a Private Equity firm spells a death knell for the company. Of course at the right price it makes sense that you wanted to sell it away, but what are your thoughts about what will happen to the company now?
Stylistic note: "knell" is a word for a sound, like the ringing of a solemn type of bell.
So something can't be said to "spell a death knell".