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Your comment is ignorant on so many different levels I'm not sure where to start so I'll start with the most _______ part: * I didn't realize that anyone still
by melvinram 14y ago
Your comment is ignorant on so many different levels I'm not sure where to start so I'll start with the most _______ part:
* I didn't realize that anyone still considers Alexa to be even slightly accurate.
* You're confusing having a strong opinion as being resentful.
* Doing scalable is exactly what 37s has done for the last approx. 10 years. There are 2 parts to a "scalable business." 1) Can you acquire clients in a scalable way? 2) Can you serve them in a scalable way? Basecamp has thousands of paying customers and I've almost never seen an ad from them so that proves the are able to acquire them without a significant customer acquisition cost. They sell software. Do I have to say more to prove they can serve them in a scalable way.
* "it's not about your current revenues or status, it's always about you future expectation when valuing assets/companies/startups/businesses and that's how you sell"
I have a bridge to sell you that will generate a billion dollars in the future. Interested?
* "is shows one more time in which league 37signals actually plays." They are willing to kill a product that takes very little time to maintain and it generates $18k/month in profit. Think about that.
* I don't think they are going to end up selling it and will likely just shut it down if they will stand by their "sell by x or shut down" claim. Regardless, I think your comment says more about you than about 37signals or DHH.
- sigkill 14y ago>They are willing to kill a product that takes very little time to maintain and it generates $18k/month in profit. This. I didn't and still don't understand why they want to kill it.
- peterjancelis 14y agoIt's about mental bandwidth. The 37Signals way is to ruthlessly (try to) cut down on all the non-essentials for growth.
- gawker 14y agoIf you can potentially generate more than $18k/month by being more focused on your core product, why not? As raganwald mentioned earlier, Jack Welch of GE got out of areas even when they were making money. They only stayed in if they can be #1 or #2.