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How come all this has to lead to "at IMVU....". I keep seeing this pattern from the company.
by rokhayakebe 18y ago
How come all this has to lead to "at IMVU....". I keep seeing this pattern from the company.
- tonystubblebine 18y agoIn order to sell, offer value first. There's nothing wrong with that. He's doing a good job too, because I went from never having heard of him to having heard about him from four trusted sources in the matter of a month. All the sources were passing on the material he was providing rather than his company.
- TimothyFitz 18y agoThree big reasons: One, we're the oldest company (5yrs) practicing Lean Startup ideals, an off-shoot of Steve Blank's Customer Development strategy. Two, the company chose to be extremely public about their practices and explicit about the financial results, up through 2007. As a Board of Advisors member and Venture Advisor, Eric sees a lot of privileged information. I don't have any specifics, but there are definitely other companies getting it and moving with it. Three, and I apologize for how vague this will sound: things just look different when you're at IMVU. The culture is so hard to describe to an outsider, and so fundamental to the way we do business. I hope Eric writes more about it, because it was an explicit decision on day 0 to have a strong culture. It worked.