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Dropbox is really awesome. I'm very impressed with how well they execute. Lots of companies big and small have offered the same basic service, but nobody has built a product nearly as good.
Any Dropbox folks here who could comment on what those tools might be?
Dropbox is hands down the best piece of software I've installed in the past few years. It's the first product I've ever been able to recommend to both friends (geeks) and family (categorically not geeks whatsoever) without having to change my explanation of why it's so awesome. Congrats guys!
Dropbox is really awesome. I'm very impressed with how well they execute. Lots of companies big and small have offered the same basic service, but nobody has built a product nearly as good.
What about Live Mesh? (When assumed that all your computers run windows). As I see it, there is basically all the functionality of Dropbox, plus 5GB free space, ability to sync several folders, and remote desktop functionality.
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Its not as hard as you might think. I'm sure Patrick (patio11/bingocardcreator.com) knows the cost of acquisition for 1 customer. If you're good with AdWords, its pretty doable. Anecdotally, I've heard Amazon shoots for $23. Thus they'll put basically unlimited money into any system bringing in customers for You can run into a problem of volume though, i.e., you overfish the pond. Then you'll need to find new sources…
Sure. With adwords you can know the COC. But not with referrals.
http://20bits.com/articles/almost-viral-a-hybrid-acquisition...
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$7m to optimise for more referrals? BTW, my original comment was not 'what idiots' it was, 'I wonder what they need all that money for?' If they are going to spend it all on split testing their 'refer a friend' system, well that is something of a wonder.
While I'm sure buying online ads will be a large part of their strategy, they may be using this money to start experimenting with other forms of advertising: magazine, radio, etc. I'd assume they are also ramping up to a more aggressive corporate sales strategy.
- adwords
- Advertising experiments
- a/b teting ($7m in split testing. Wow!)
- Engineering. Go past just file syncing (uuilly)
- corporate sales
Each one of these is interesting in a way. I honestly don't think that the first three are likely. The last 2 are a strategic change of direction.
Dropbox is hands down the best piece of software I've installed in the past few years. It's the first product I've ever been able to recommend to both friends (geeks) and family (categorically not geeks whatsoever) without having to change my explanation of why it's so awesome. Congrats guys!
I agree and congratulations to the whole team. I have been a huge fan and loved their free service. However, as soon as I moved to the paid service and increased my backed up data to 10GB my computer became extremely slow. Dropbox is using 98% of CPU both on windows XP and Mac. It has been a week and not everything is backed up yet. Moreover, if I move a directory within my dropbox folder, it takes it as a new folder…
In the end I just signed up for a $9.99 a year hosting plan with 20 gig of storage and WebDAV. Cheaper, faster, and no funky software to crash my boxen.
Honestly I'm not even really sure how Dropbox ever became so popular.