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Thanks for your first hand experience input. Your first two points I can agree with, but it's the 3rd that troubles me. Shouldn't a company that means to stay
by zepolen 18y ago
Thanks for your first hand experience input.
Your first two points I can agree with, but it's the 3rd that troubles me.
Shouldn't a company that means to stay in business want to have slow but steady growth, a gradual climb, giving the them time to adapt.
Doesn't a company want to put its money making plan in action before it goes big time?
I know justin.tv has major bandwidth requirements, and from what I can see there is no revenue model apart from adverts in place, which probably can't cover the cost of the bandwidth alone let alone everything else.
Please take no offence but if a company has a cash gap it's usually a bad sign, and throwing money at the problem will only work for so long.
- ojbyrne 18y agoIf you want a "slow but steady growth, a gradual climb, giving them time to adapt" then you shouldn't be financing with VC money. That's not what they do.
- redrobot5050 18y agoOrganic growth models, like you suggest, exist. But most of the time VCs want what 37signals calls a "Hollywood Launch". One day your site isn't live, just a beta to a few select friends/classmates, the next, everyone and their mother is checking out your live site. And you have a product to sell/revenue model.