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I guess that this type of "optimization" happens naturally when someone accidentally commits to a particular way of business deeply. I don't think it is done wi
by namanyayg 9y ago
I guess that this type of "optimization" happens naturally when someone accidentally commits to a particular way of business deeply. I don't think it is done with the goal of lead qualification in mind.
Why do I think so? It's because you're pretty much _never_ going to make a site like this if you're optimizing for immediately qualifying leads. All of this knowledge would be a result of trial & error.
- dredmorbius 9y agoA key point I'm trying to make (post author here) is that it's quite possibleto uconsciously stumble into a successful pattern. And to be blind to that faact. Tim Brady, ex-Yahoo exec, on why success is a losy teacher: When things are going well and you’re in a growth industry, you don’t have to deal with many difficult issues. It’s the old cliche, winning solves everything. It’s really true. It solves everything… or maybe better said, it masks all your mistakes. A lot of the mistakes you make get masked because you receive almost no negative feedback. But then the bottom fell out and the board let Tim Koogle go. The upper ranks of management emptied out pretty quick, except for me and the CTO who stuck around. We got a new CEO and set of peers in upper management. Let me just say, I learned a whole lot more about business on the way down than I did on the way up. http://www.themacro.com/articles/2016/06/tim-brady-interview/ http://www.themacro.com/articles/2016/06/tim-brady-interview...