Just tried signup and sign up is over http and https... ooops that does not sound good.
Wanelo: The First Million Users
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#152Having to sign in to view a single product flies in the face of everything Ive read about successful ecom sites.
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#153Earlier quoted context omitted.
We're just getting started. Amazon Prime is not a social platform. Slide 5 is all about the web becoming social.
It's a nice assertion you make that "Amazon prime is not social". I find the opposite to be true.
Yeah I wouldn't call it social in the 'growth hacking' sense... but it's certainly social in that it comes up in conversation nearly as often as Facebook or Twitter (in my non-tech circles).
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#154I am Sarvjeet Ahuja, on which this whole thread started. Want to clarify the following: - Me and Deena are known to each other for many years - I did the initial coding without being the co-founder and executed it as a services business - I built the product with Java(Struts2, Hibernate, MySQL) and worked on it single handedly for few years. - Lately, when we started getting some traction, we decided to persue it tog…
Out of curiosity, why did VC firms not like you in India? What were their real objections?
Thanks for the good post and clearing things up.
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#155What would be really cool is if I could use wanelo as a search engine for something I'd like to buy but I don't know where. Like I want to buy a pair of striped shoes with butterflies on for a kid. I put the description somewhere -and I get pictures of the products available. Is it something you are planning to add?
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#156Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's minus half a credibility point for being a lone wolf founder. The reasons to have founders plural are countless.
As are the reasons to not have a cofounder. There is no pure formula for success.
Never said their was.
The wrong cofounder/s is like the wrong spouse.
The right cofounder/s is like the right spouse.
Best to know them previously, it helps a lot.
Further, the biggest point of having other people around is killing off bad ideas quickly because people won't see the entire picture themselves but they will believe their own bullshit. It's harder to delude yourself in the wrong direction of thought if your cofounder/s are there to help you keep you honest.
Re: Wanelo: The First Million Users
#157I am Sarvjeet Ahuja, on which this whole thread started. Want to clarify the following: - Me and Deena are known to each other for many years - I did the initial coding without being the co-founder and executed it as a services business - I built the product with Java(Struts2, Hibernate, MySQL) and worked on it single handedly for few years. - Lately, when we started getting some traction, we decided to persue it tog…
Out of curiosity, why did VC firms not like you in India? What were their real objections? Thanks for the good post and clearing things up.
Probably there were different reasons for different VC Firms. Let it go, let us not talk about them anymore :)
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#158Slide 8: no one cares. Slide 9: not interesting. Slide 10: 30k monthly uniques. What happened there? That is all I really care about.
:) What happened was that we removed the crap that was built before. Only 2 things could not be removed: products and people, so the homepage became a precursor to what it is today: a minimalist grid of products posted by users. I then spent $20 a day on Facebook ads. The goal was simply to get a small stream of people to check out the website and to see if they would use it. I didn't think I could actually grow a co…
Thanks for the reply. I appreciate it. It is amazing that you got the growth you did by only spending 20 bucks a day on FB ads. People must really like the product! Great job.
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#159Earlier quoted context omitted.
It's a nice assertion you make that "Amazon prime is not social". I find the opposite to be true.
Yeah I wouldn't call it social in the 'growth hacking' sense... but it's certainly social in that it comes up in conversation nearly as often as Facebook or Twitter (in my non-tech circles).
It's been around since the 1990s, so it's not "sexy".
Even though Amazon has been an important part of my own business for actually selling stuff, Amazon Prime has revolutionised the ability for small sellers to move volume (and solved the logistics hurdles), and Amazon's cloud computing is critical for tons of other startups to run their infrastructure--not to mention is being chosen by established players.
But, no, it's not "social".
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#160Very interesting, although someone claims the history to be bogus. I currently have a website that gets over 500k Uniques per month and over 5m pageviews a month, so it's interesting to see what the future could hold!
I'm curious. What's the website? How'd you reach that audience? Short story?
A little luck and a little experience. Plus 4 years of community growth.
I prefer not to say the site if you understand.