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What subterfuges did your startup have to resort to in the early days?
What was your secret sauce to get those early users to sign up? Fake accounts talking to each other? Deep discounts for those early adopters? Giveaways?
- aristus 18y agoA friend of mine adopted a persona at gaming conferences to promote his blog, including a big metal robot head. At a satellite ISP I worked at a long time ago, we used the transponder during offpeak hours to stream porn and bootlegs for extra cash. Other stuff... well if you care to poke around, a lot of sites have poor data security. Further deponent sayeth not.
- RobGR 18y agoI heard though word of mouth (i.e., kind of unreliable, so I won't mention any names) that a certain company I had respected "almost died a few months after launching, because craigslist figured out how to stop us from spamming them for a couple of weeks, until we got around it".