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I have been proven wrong far too many times to believe that I am still in any way a decent judge of what may be a good idea or viable startup. The best example
by dmitri1981 13y ago
I have been proven wrong far too many times to believe that I am still in any way a decent judge of what may be a good idea or viable startup.
The best example I can give here is from a few years ago when I was chatting online with some startup folks. One of them was building a Twitter based app where you would enter your tweets and it would post them at an interval you specify. I believe my thoughts at the time were that it must be the lamest idea I ever came across. Fast forward a few years and that startup, now known to the world as Buffer, is making over a million dollars a year and growing at a crazy rate.
- sillysaurus 13y agoA million a year, just from that? How?
- iconfinder 13y agoSubscriptions.
- sillysaurus 13y agoAre you sure? They don't seem to mention subscription pricing on http://bufferapp.com/ http://bufferapp.com/ I can't verify that myself since I don't want to link their app to my linkedin.
- omd 13y agoI don't believe ideas are inherently good or bad. A lot also depends on timing and execution. Twitter turned out to be a great idea, but I don't think there are many people who could have pulled it off the way Jack Dorsey and his cohorts did.