Lessons of Y Combinator: Things I’d do differently after 2 startups
I hate to be a downer, but sometimes these things don't sit right with me. "After successfully launching their consumer offering (7% week-over-week growth!)"
Why are the traffic charts essentially flat for the last 6 months, or worse on quantcast.
I think "3. We didn’t spend enough time on marketing" is probably the most important, but then I'm not convinced the idea is "sticky" enough in the first place.
Still an interesting read though :)
Not sure I would ever pay for software to tell me where I am spending my time.
I loved the landing page design. Great layout, big red call to action buttons, multi-column displays... That alone got me to sign up.
I think the group version could be cool, and might be worth paying for... Think as a project manager you can see how exactly everyone is doing - I.E. the designer spending 30% of each day researching design, and 20% in photoshop... just sounds neat, Im trying the personal version for sure!
This is a great post with a lot of good data that oughta be very interesting to people here. Possibly the best kind of post we could have. I'd like to see a lot more of these. Thanks, Tony!
I'm reluctant to have my data stored on their server. If it's software that I run on my PC, why does it need to save its data on their system?
Things we did right: "didn't focus on internet marketing" - Things we did wrong: "didn't do enough marketing"
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