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How many schools allow you to recontinue your education again if you drop out to start a company but it fails? Seems like if I had this option I would have dropped out at least once.
Some remote universities, I guess. I'm studying a MCompSci for 7 years now and it only costs me 11€ when I don't do any courses in a semester. I got all courses done, just need time for the thesis, hehe
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Just curious, what do you mean by growth hacking in this case?
Can't speak for the parent comment. However I can relate. Today I installed Dropbox for my grandfather and their default entry-level free account comes with 2GB, but as soon as you create your account and install the software, they offer to give you 25GB of free space if you add 1 file to your account and you install Dropbox on your mobile. Not sure if that helps them artificially boost their numbers (by claiming mor…
You could call it growth hacking I guess. I think it's an interesting alternative to idk, a weekly "did you know that?" e-mail (e.g. Evernote) or a tooltips-driven tutorial, or Clippy.
When Google Drive and iCloud and One Drive all cropped up, copying the same service with the addition of deeper integration into different devices and software, I was worried Dropbox would be unable to compete. But they've hung in there, and I remain a happy customer.
- It's good enough
- It just works
It solves the problem of sharing files across different devices and does it with no fuss.
I have tried alternatives such as Google Drive and Onedrive and changing terms (looking at you Microsoft), incompatibilities, clunky interfaces always made me drop them.
I noticed the word "profit" doesn't appear anywhere in the article. Will Dropbox ever make money?
Exactly. It kills me that the definition of a successful company is rarely - being able to deliver a product profitably.
Losses last three years are: ~300m, ~200m, ~100m.
They are going to be profitable by 2020 and their margin is growing, so I don't get this negativity.
> ...as he sat down in his seat, Mr Houston realised that he had forgotten the memory stick that contained all the files. "I was so frustrated because I felt like this kept happening," he says. "I never wanted to have the problem again, so having nothing else to do... I started writing some code [to find a solution], having no idea what it would become." What Mr Houston came up with was the idea for Dropbox - remote…
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And that’s exactly why they’re billionaires and you probably aren’t. It isn’t about functionality, it’s about ease of use. It’s the same argument used when MS-DOS was being replaced by the GUI. Explain FTP to your Aunt Edna. Get FTP working where everything on all devices is in sync automatically. Comment on a file via FTP. Send a link to a file they can consume on a mobile device — including playing audio or video w…
Oh boy, someone believes in the startup myth. A massive part of the success of such startups are connections, connections, connections. The product itself doesn't matter that much, considering all the pivoting. Nor does making a profit, considering all the startups still burning VC money. Yes, there is certainly an amount of skill necessary, but the scrappy startup that suceeds against all odds is a fairytale. Luck,…
It was a scrappy start up with a good product.
Did anyone ever figure out what came of bringing a Bush cabinet member on board? Contract for mining data for NSA/FBI?
I'm surprised she's still there: https://www.dropbox.com/about
and this page still exists: http://www.drop-dropbox.com
I have to say, I've not heard any mention of her in relation to dropbox since she was appointed tho'.
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That's probably done to prevent people from creating many free accounts and sharing folders with each other to simulate having more storage space.
I have a big archive of family photos (130 GB and growing) that I’d like to share with my wife in read-only mode. She only needs Dropbox for a bunch of documents, so paying an extra €10 per month is not something we can do. Dropbox is a fairly expensive service. I’ve used it for years however I can no longer defend my choice. Extended versioning is gone. Expiring sharing links are gone from Plus, so I have to pay €20…
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What is wrong about it? Would you prefer to have 2 GB shared quota, or separate quota of 1 GB each? With shared quota you have more flexibility as to what service you prefer to use more.
Email is a critical service. Loosing emails because a misclick or uploaded a too big of file is not acceptable UX.