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But....10->400 over 5 years is quite close to being the same raw rate of growth as 400->1000 over 1 year? And given the challenges of the initial stage of growt
by wly_cdgr 5y ago
But....10->400 over 5 years is quite close to being the same raw rate of growth as 400->1000 over 1 year? And given the challenges of the initial stage of growth, it arguably translates to a significantly higher stage-adjusted growth rate? On these numbers alone the best we can probably say for Meetup is that it performed about as well as your self hosted site
- caseysoftware 5y agoValid point.. I should have put it in terms of the effort/ROI of each approach: In that first five years, it was entirely word of mouth. The only people who found us did because they met someone in the core group or knew someone who met someone in the core group. It required us to talk about it regularly everywhere in addition to organizing the actual meetings, etc. In the next year on Meetup, they only had to organize meetings. Fundamentally, it's not all that different than any early stage startup except that we were driven by passion, not pay.