MailChimp was a side-project for 6 years. Todoist was a side-project for 4 years. Basecamp took 2 years before it was paying their salaries. Maybe the rest of us shouldn't be in such a hurry.
-
-
Right, it took 4 years to go from zero to more revenue that a set of people could charge at agency rates. Thats still slow, so a good example, but I mean there are people who have $20k *ARR* after theee years and say “it’s ok bootstrapping is slow.”
-
I understand the backlash against 100 hour weeks. But it’s difficult to find success companies where founders didn’t work 80+ hours and products took longer than 4 years to get to $1M ARR. including your examples.
- Pokaż odpowiedzi
Nowa rozmowa -
Wydaje się, że ładowanie zajmuje dużo czasu.
Twitter jest przeciążony lub wystąpił chwilowy problem. Spróbuj ponownie lub sprawdź status Twittera, aby uzyskać więcej informacji.
building
Sorry, are you saying that a shorter, intense sprint (2 weeks, 1 month, whatever) will return better health gains than slow gains over year and years?
Arguably, MailChimp's "slow gains" over time look pretty impressive now...
I'm not encouraging people to "persistently pursue what's not working" but rather to start small, and steadily grow ideas that have good fundamentals. 