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Ask HN: What are your goals for your startups in 2010?
Everyone has goals, what are your top goals for 2010?
- cperciva 17y agoMy goal for Tarsnap is the same as my goal for life: I plan to end 2010 with 10x as many customers as I start it with.
- ashishk 17y agoRamen profitability. Stat.
- messel 17y agoGood hunting Ashishk. What's your business?
- zackattack 17y agomyzamana.com
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoAre you A/B testing your landing page? Most dating sites have pictures of faces on their landing pages..
- ashishk 17y agoI have a separate landing page that I use for marketing. And yep - A/B testing is critical.
- ashishk 17y agoThanks Zack =) If anyone from HN signs up, let me know and I'll upgrade your account for you.
- wensing 17y agoMonth-over-month traffic growth.
- patio11 17y ago$45k in bingo card sales. $30k in bingo profits. Paying customers for something other than bingo.
- dan_sim 17y ago~100K$
- aschobel 17y agoFaster iterations, better analytics, happier users.
- maxklein 17y agoBy february, want to reach $12000 a month, from about $8000 at the moment. Want to diversify and do something I can be more proud of and actually boast about, while increasing sales to bring in $30.000 a month = $1000 a day. I don't yet know what I can do to reach my target, but will work on it. Also, want to improve my management skills so I am more diplomatic but still get things done in the right way.
- adam_feldman 17y agoI want to launch the first beta of my news aggregator focused on promoting discussion of controversial political topics by February
- zaidf 17y ago1- Hundreds of happy customers. 2- 200K in sales. 3- Two full-time employees. 4- Fewer mood swings!
- christonog 17y agoBest of luck, Zaid!
- zaidf 17y agoThanks Chris! We gotta catch up soon.
- messel 17y ago1) Discovering the value proposition that brings in users by word of mouth to our social/semantic search page. 2) setting up our own rock solid ad network + stats 3) generating revenue from ads/affiliate links 4) hiring our first consultants/freelancers (may shift to employees but we'll let it happen based on relationships with the folks that we work with) 5) making a ton of connections across industries and skyrocketing my businesses chances of massive disruption to the ad and search markets
- nicholasreed 17y agoLaunch at the start of February Expand nationally by the end of the year Ramen profitable by 6 months
- DenisM 17y agoWhen I applied for YC'10 I was told my plans are not sufficiently ambitious. One of my goals, therefore, is to grow ambitiousness of my (other) goals. And yours should be, too. Dare to aim high.
- baran 17y agoI was told by during YC'10 our plans are too ambitious. Want to join forces?
- nkohari 17y agoOther than keeping our customers happy, our goal for 2010 is growth. We just hit sustainability in early December.
- cookiecaper 17y agoActually make enough money to live a comfortable life. I'm sick of being poor.
- uggedal 17y ago50.000 free users: http://wasitup.com/stats/ http://wasitup.com/stats/
- scootklein 17y agopricing structure (please God). also, hands-off approach to marketing and sales with an affiliate force
- callmeed 17y ago- Launch 1 new app in our industry - Launch 2 new apps in other industries - Hit 2M in sales - Get a provisional patent and some prototypes done for a physical product/invention I have in mind
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoI would really like to see my current startup through to the end without getting sucked back into the easy money of consulting.
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoCharge more for consulting, by a lot.
- DanielBMarkham 17y agoThat's the current plan. But starving isn't so much fun either. The trick is to find the right rate as quickly as possible.
- axod 17y agoSpend far less time on hackernews/reddit/facebook/etc and far more time doing productive work.
- spencerfry 17y agoI guess I posted this in the wrong thread. Here are mine: Plans: (1) Add a few more members to the team. (2) Lease our own office instead of sublease. (3) Release the new version of our app. (4) Expand two more verticals. (5) Get more mainstream press. (6) Finish moving our core team to New York City. We're currently 2 of 4 in NYC. (7) Start our newsletter. (8) Do more charity work. (9) Start a meetup. (10) Get involved in local NYC art/design scene more than I already am.
- hkr 17y agoleave my not-so-technical job to discover a real passion
- vinalk 17y agorevolutionize. Everything else will fall in place.
- og1 17y agoMaking my side project a full time project.
- pxlpshr 17y agodisrupt an industry that overcharges their customers because their hardware and infrastructure requirements are out-dated; they haven't innovated since the 1990's.
- sammcd 17y agoGraduate College, Get Married, Launch Second company. Maybe that is too much :(
- PStamatiou 17y agogoals in general: Market and grow to 50,000 users, find way to hire full-time developers. Keep experimenting with monetizing my blog and grow to $3-4k/month. Eat less red meat and jog more. Pay off more student loans. Buy a laptop/netbook for newborn nephew and get him hooked. Find a girlfriend again. Move my money around (read: ditch Bank of America).
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- jarsj 17y agoBuild a product that I (bold I) am happy using as an unbiased user.
- nfnaaron 17y agoBe bold!
- jsz0 17y agoI'd like to just put together an idea and see it through to the end. The success of the project isn't all that important to me really. I'd just like the experience of doing it. Maybe someday I'd have a really good idea and would be prepared to make it happen.
- aaronblohowiak 17y agoDo something small.
- richardburton 17y ago- Taken on two extra staff for my first startup and get it to the point where I just check the numbers once a week whilst providing three people a great income and me with an awesome, passive income. - Create an awesome new SaaS business with a really smart cofounder and see where it takes us. - Live the dream :)
- toisanji 17y agofind a cofounder for my project
- NathanKP 17y agoI think my top goal is to get at least 1000 customers. I currently have about 25, so scaling up will be an exciting process.
- Concours 17y agoActually reach profitability with my News plattform, move the platform oto a reliable VPS , Make my mobile plattform service a standard for bloggers and implement a revenue Model for Bloggers in the plattform. By the end of 2010, the mobile plattform should be a must have for every site out there.
- SAHChandler 17y agoStart my business in some way shape or form. :D
- keefe 17y agolaunch my 3 year old web app to the public and watch the data flow from a pile of people using it. Get the code efficient enough that the pile doesn't break the bank in server costs.
- jparicka 17y agoLaunch this bad boy http://beepl.com http://beepl.com - maybe in few weeks time....
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- rdl 17y agoLaunch one of 3 projects as an actual startup, quit dayjob. 1) infrastructure/platform related to security 2) hardware device with social network features 3) consumer-focused webapp in data aggregation/presentation I've spent the last couple months since getting back from Afghanistan working on all 3 at early stages, finding potential cofounders, clients, funding, etc., and am pretty much at the decision point. Should be going full-time with one of them in January (I need to hit a vesting cliff of 12-31-2009 before doing so, counting down the hours...)
- ct 17y agoMake money by writing an algorithm for trading. I've tried the startup thing for so long now (over 20 yrs), and haven't succeeded and so I think I just don't have what it takes. Time to move on and try something else for a change instead of beating a dead horse.
- dhpmx 17y agoAdd 1000+ new members, find contributors/partners, make site the best it can be ! oh and make a couple of bucks too !
- camperman 17y ago1. Shipping the game 2. 10 000+ people buying it because it's fun
- il 17y agoGet to $1 million in revenues, get an office, start hiring employees.