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Sure they can roll out new apps to a huge audience now, but they did not start with 80k readers. It took them years to transition from a consultancy to a SaaS m
by cedsav 18y ago
Sure they can roll out new apps to a huge audience now, but they did not start with 80k readers. It took them years to transition from a consultancy to a SaaS model, and years to grow Basecamp and Rails. Getting distribution is not that hard, but it takes a LONG time (talking from experience).
- alaskamiller 18y agopeople seem to miss this aspect of grabbing success. 37signals took 5 years to get here. wikipedia/wiki/crowdsourcing took 8 years. craigslist took more than 13 years. success is a balanced equation, you need equal parts marketing, sales, engineering, product design, pricing, timing, and even a bit of luck to get to what you want.
- mhartl 18y agoI agree, though 'easy things that take a long time' fall into the 'hard' category as far as I'm concerned. But maybe I'm just impatient. :-)