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Solo Founder? I demand you scuttle the acquisition and stop violating pg's pet theories. congrats!!! http://www.paulgraham.com/startupmistakes.html
http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=173759
Apparently they will "take a chance" on you as a solo founder if you have an already-established profitable business you've built up over several years to the point where an M&A event is imminent.
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Great, thanks. Hope you don't mind, but the questions are "gushing" out right now. Your story is very compelling to me (and probably quite a few others, too): 1. Did you have personal savings before you got started? 2. In that 3.5 years, how much time did you spend on other jobs? Employee or contractor? 3. Which month (of the 42) did you see your first revenue? 4. Did you do all of the hacking, hosting, and marketing…
1. Yes but not much. I lived at home at first. Telling people I lived with my parents so I could develop a "fantasy game" elicited some fantastic reactions. 2. I tried to work part-time the first year. It's a bad idea. You can't do two things at once. 3. It's difficult to measure this because the site is seasonal. The first year was OK but I had to wait 8 months to see the improvement. I started making a non-negligib…
11. Can you give us a ballpark on the acquisition price? Even just a "6-figures", "7-figures", "first half of 8-figures", "2nd half of 8-figures" range?
12. How long did it take you to launch?
13. Did you ever have scaling difficulties?
Great job. Doing something for 3.5 years on your own requires a lot of confidence and perseverance. Congratulations!
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Great, thanks. Hope you don't mind, but the questions are "gushing" out right now. Your story is very compelling to me (and probably quite a few others, too): 1. Did you have personal savings before you got started? 2. In that 3.5 years, how much time did you spend on other jobs? Employee or contractor? 3. Which month (of the 42) did you see your first revenue? 4. Did you do all of the hacking, hosting, and marketing…
1. Yes but not much. I lived at home at first. Telling people I lived with my parents so I could develop a "fantasy game" elicited some fantastic reactions. 2. I tried to work part-time the first year. It's a bad idea. You can't do two things at once. 3. It's difficult to measure this because the site is seasonal. The first year was OK but I had to wait 8 months to see the improvement. I started making a non-negligib…
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That's true. Nobody took me up on it. I got one applicant and it went nowhere.
Just for nostalgia, here is the reddit comment thread: http://reddit.com/info/p8nv/comments/
Congrats
Congratulations. You're an inspiration to all of us. If you dont mind me asking, did you take on investment money or was the decision to sell solely yours?
Zero outside investment. Zero other employees (I've been doing this full-time for ~3.5 years). I hired an artist for the illustrations. And used a lot of open source projects.