dkoston

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   by dkoston 13y ago

   "traffic" is a really ambiguous word. If I take it at face value, it's really easy to drive traffic to a site: - recruit a bunch of affiliates to post pages with links back to your site (be discriminating on quality and fr
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   by dkoston 13y ago

   Cloud services provide great help but blindly relying on their security doesn't make sense. If you built the system ground up, you'd take time on security so you should do so with your data no matter where its located. Tools like
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   by dkoston 14y ago

   Sorry to add to my rant but I get really tired of hearing the "X methodology killed my business" story. There have been hundreds of thousands of successful businesses created and operated by people without formal training in any strategy s
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   by dkoston 14y ago

   It's not enough to simply survey people on whether or not they have a problem and then go build. Building good software means building something that people want to use. If you fail to properly dive into customer development and learn about
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   by dkoston 14y ago

   So, in essence, the problem is that KickStarter is noisy at scale and you're essentially selling a filter. Maybe the title of the post should have been "KickStarter Sucks, Long Live KickStarter"