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What startups did Ryan Carson do? All I've seen of his is that little file uploader clone he sold off in like 6 months. It seems to me like he gave up on tryin
by staunch 15y ago
What startups did Ryan Carson do? All I've seen of his is that little file uploader clone he sold off in like 6 months.
It seems to me like he gave up on trying to build successful webapps and is now just trying to sell "How To Mine Gold" books and conferences to the actual miners.
- ryancarson 15y agoThe first startup I built was DropSend which did $250,000 of profit a year, which was sold after about 18 months. That's the "little file uploader" you're referring to. The second startup I've built is our events business. We've grown that to $2m+ in revenue per year. The third startup I've done is Think Vitamin Membership which is now at $1m in revenue after just 12 months.
- drgath 15y agoBoom. roasted
- staunch 15y agoMost people wouldn't consider conferences or online video lectures to be "startups". Just like most people wouldn't consider a blog a startup. They're also not product based and certainly not webapps.
- turoczy 15y agoThat raises a really interesting point: what constitutes a "startup"? Does it have to be product based?
- turoczy 15y agoStarted a new thread for this question http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2642425 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2642425
- ryancarson 15y agoI was going to put effort in to responding, but on second thought, it's just not worth the five minutes that would require. Best of luck to you Staunch.
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- shabda 15y agoWould just like to say that we are subscibed to the membership, and your videos and content are top notch, and one of the best 50$ I spend a month. Keep doing trainings, dont do webapps. :)
- ryancarson 15y agoThanks Shabda - really appreciate that :)