15 points to reveal the “Launching a Startup is easy” myth. (2/15) - Make money to be able to make more money

July 26 I wrote the first part of a series of posts that will reveal that saying “launching a startup is easy” is just a myth. Some media covered this posts and I was extremely happy to see that my site’s monthly bandwidth exceed within 48 hours. Today let me tell you about another key [...]

It is not the money spent on marketing that makes a startup successful

After weeks without writing any posts I have decided to share with you some ideas about startups that might be insightful especially to those of you who are planning to launch the fifth youtube-like site.
1. there is no clear correlation between investments in marketing and long term website profitability
The idea behind it, is that in [...]

Startup failure despite media coverage and good ideas. A story to keep in mind.

Last year I have heard thousands of people saying we have got the new big thing on the net. What I said in October 2006 was: “guys calm down, it’s not gonna last forever”. A year later I am here to say that I was right, AlumWire is completely down.
What makes me really laugh [...]

Big mistake launching a startup: make users pay for beta

A beta version is not something you should charge money for. What I found extremely surprising is that more and more companies are making users pay to use versions of their products that are not working perfectly.
One of them is Powerset, a piece of a search engine that is said to be willing to replace [...]

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