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Our goal is to create a large independent company, and are quite far from the bootstrap startup you describe. What you are describing is http://www.slideshare.n

Our goal is to create a large independent company, and are quite far from the bootstrap startup you describe. What you are describing is http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/why-fighter-pilots-run-startups-4557023/10 http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/why-fighter-pilots-run-star... and what I'm after is http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/why-fighter-pilots-run-startups-4557023/16 http://www.slideshare.net/sblank/why-fighter-pilots-run-star... Both models are valid, and both models require different approaches. Steve Blank will be talking about this soon at Wealthfront and you should feel free to join. As for the self-serving recruiting post... we're not recruiting anyone this year!

tastybites 16y ago
Hmm, is that a small bit of condescension I detect in your response? Our goal is also to create a large independent company, not build a $500k/year online TODO list company or whatever it is you have in mind (our revenues surpassed that in year 1). I'm not really sure what you mean by 'independent', though, because all companies depend on their customers.... (QED?) Here are some large, independent companies in our space: RAX, TMRK (well, not anymore I guess), peer1.com, he.net, IBM From what I can tell your competitors are the large mutual funds, ETFs, and retail wealth management, so I'm sure you will achieve success, as it's a large and proven market. And as far as not recruiting this year - web content doesn't disappear after a year.