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发帖数: 12469 | 1 Posted By crranky ~ 21st August 2012
Back in 2007 I started a free Blogspot web site in the gaming space. Within
6 months, via Google Adsense (and a couple other rev sources) it was bring
in $3,800 a month. (CORRECTION: the 3,800 was not Google Adsense alone).
A year later the site was receiving 110,000 uniques, 1.5 million page views
and over $10,000 a month (with multiple rev sources). This juggernaut was a
simple blog of mostly daily posts about a certain game and in most cases
those blog posts were simple reposts from the game’s own blog.
Impressed with what I had done, or more accurately, shocked at what had
happened to me. I mended this at a startup conference to someone.
But what was I told by a certain successful startup guy?
“That’s not a startup. That’s just a website.”
Sure, falling bass-ackwards into a revenue stream does not make a startup a
startup. Tons of unique visitors and page impressions don’t either.
So what does?
Would anyone consider the front page of this site, Crranky.com a startup? It
’s a simple idea simply executed by me, a non-techical guy with no
programming help. No?
Moving on from this I’ve attempted a “real” startup this time. Now with a
little cash in my pocket, hiring a programmer, spending a year in
development of a profile-type platform for tweens and teens. Think of it as
About.me for virtual world profiles, called Funhouse.
Several thousand dollars poorer, no revenue and about 6,000 members later
can I now consider myself a start up guy? A real startup guy? What about a
serial entrepreneur?
My list goes on but I’ll spare you the clicks. I haven’t had the kind of
“startup success” I did back when I had a free website, ad revenue and
lots of traffic.
If the definition of startup is (and from what I read on Hacker News at
times seems to be) being broke taking a great idea to a well executed
functional MVP with the hope of someday being acquired, then no thanks.
I’ll take just a big revenue generating “website” any day.
Why? Because I am not interested in making a dent in the universe, at least
right now.
I just need to pay some bills. | D******y
发帖数: 3780 | 2 技术不算什么。我觉得你看重技术这东西了。技术只是实现某个想法或者模式的手段而
已。
而且我怀疑你没看懂原文。
hao123有什么特别的技术吗？算不算startup?
no | s*********e
发帖数: 4475 | 3 同意， 原文的意思是如果那不算start up, 他也不想做start up.
那个网站当然可以说是startup, 收入也不能说是accident income. 写博客的人多了，
能一个月挣一万的， 一万个里也没有一个。
【在 D******y 的大作中提到】
: 技术不算什么。我觉得你看重技术这东西了。技术只是实现某个想法或者模式的手段而
: 已。
: 而且我怀疑你没看懂原文。
: hao123有什么特别的技术吗？算不算startup?
:
: no
| b******y
发帖数: 9224 | 4 Anyway, thanks, it is a good article and marked. | M*****a
发帖数: 7122 | 5 我想知道hao123是怎么赚钱的？
【在 D******y 的大作中提到】
: 技术不算什么。我觉得你看重技术这东西了。技术只是实现某个想法或者模式的手段而
: 已。
: 而且我怀疑你没看懂原文。
: hao123有什么特别的技术吗？算不算startup?
:
: no
| n******e
发帖数: 708 | 6 apparently you have to pay to be there..
【在 M*****a 的大作中提到】
: 我想知道hao123是怎么赚钱的？
| j******f
发帖数: 825 | 7 startup也许人人理解不同，但是其重要特点就是scalable, 就是说，将来的business
可以扩大很多倍。这个写博客可以吗？ | l**x
发帖数: 100 | 8 我认为start up就是能自己解决自己的就业问题就行了。 | s******m
发帖数: 2310 | 9 写到自己有强大数量的粉丝群就可以了吧
startup也许人人理解不同，但是其重要特点就是scalable, 就是说，将来的business
可以扩大很多倍。这个写博客可以吗？
【在 j******f 的大作中提到】
: startup也许人人理解不同，但是其重要特点就是scalable, 就是说，将来的business
: 可以扩大很多倍。这个写博客可以吗？
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