Doing payments first is the way to avoid the rapid growth problem entirely (and depending on your service, spam problems). I charged a tiny signup fee for Pinboard purely as an anti-spam measure, but it ended up getting me endless free publicity. 2009 was a different time.https://twitter.com/RoamResearch/status/1257849892434669571 …
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To understand the startup economy, you need to look at it as a form of performance art, targeted at a very small market of idiosyncratic art collectors. Part of the culture of this art market is not breaking kayfabe, and pretending that everything has a real world growth story.
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Because you're targeting art collectors, the important thing is to tell them stories about the world that *they* find credible, whether or not they're real. And they want to live in an exciting sci-fi world of tomorrow, or at the very least, be admired for their mental daring
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I’m viscerally offended that a company whose pitch started with “here, drink this, then we’ll talk” somehow only raised $118 million.
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Or that it was not kinkier...
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