Getting first 1-10 paying clients is really tough. And with the $12k-$120k/year range, it might have been really tough. Would you be able to share how did you get those first few paid clients? Thanks.
Our first one was intro from a prospective investor. Second sent me an email after we launched on TechCrunch. The third one sent us the following email:
"Hello — we are a Mixpanel customer and evaluating alternatives right now and came across the TC article. We also use RJ metrics, so what you guys are offering is really compelling.
I do have a question about what "custom integration" means on the feature breakdown by tier. Let me know if there is some more information about what that includes that I could review."
After that I can't remember. Ex-Zynga product people were an early sweet spot for us and we're lucky we got on a few of their radars. It was then about finding our way into more similar situations.
That's hilarious -- I worked on Zynga's analytics system in the early days, and we made it (hopefully) very easy to instrument code and get up and running. We created patient zero I guess.
No response to this post can mean many things:
1. Everyone else (just like me) is also drinking from the survival bias success stories firehose.
2. There might not be many authentic referral-worthy failure stories books (there might be individual stories, though)
3. This piece just fell through the HN cracks:)
Can't hurt me was so masochistic that after 50% of the book I started thinking why is he doing "that much". It's a good book no doubt. It makes you feel that limits are just in mind. But I've to give it a break after hearing (audible) 66% and will return to it later :)
good stuff mate. A few other functionalities need to be added like embedding videos, tweets, blogpost etc.
And don't forget that now you are completing with Google stories (http://googleblog.blogspot.in/2014/05/google-stories-and-mov...) so you need to be Awesome.
Agreed!! But still lot of functionality as you mentioned are there. You just need to dig around a bit as you keep exploring this new platform. They have some full fledged components too which could be directly dragged over while creating stories.
Problems with college is not only HIGH college tuition fees but also number of years wasted in the institution. If you are 'self motivated learner' then you can learn on web. This is especially true for software courses. Other courses like electrical and mechanical engineering might -still- need college education as colleges have requisite infrastructure for those fields.
Postgraduate courses like (US) law school and business school are much further gone though; undergraduate ones aren't as bad, yet at least. If Eric Schmidt had said that law school was worth it I think his audience might have been incapacitated with laughter.
