Just don't die - Advice from Last.fm

Posted by whyleyc on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @05:06AM
from the news.bbc.co.uk dept.

http://news.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/technology/6979941.stm

Echos of pg's essay (http://paulgraham.com/die.html) on the importance of staying alive for a startup from one of the Last.fm founders.

Anyone think they ever quit too early with their startup ?

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Re:Just don't die - Advice from Last.fm by carter on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @08:23AM (#53796)

It sounds just like advice from brilliant Paul's essay "How not to die". As for me I was sure that Last.fm's founders will get rich, because you have to if your users love you. It's a law)

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Re:Just don't die - Advice from Last.fm by davidw on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @12:00PM (#53884)

Moderately off topic, but FWIW, I went to visit these guys recently:

http://www.lovelysystems.com/category/home

They're in the western end of Austria, and the firm was founded by one of the Last.fm guys. I don't think YC.news has many readers in this corner of the world, but they're looking for good people, and it seemed like a nice environment.

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Re:Just don't die - Advice from Last.fm by bootload on Thursday September 13, 2007 @06:33AM (#54169)

"...I don't think YC.news has many readers in this corner of the world ..."

yep not many ~ http://hackrtrackr.com/forum.php?region=&country=AT

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Re:Just don't die - Advice from Last.fm by davidw on Thursday September 13, 2007 @06:46AM (#54172)

Those other guys are all from Vienna, which is about as far from Vorarlberg as you can get, and still be in Austria:-)

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Re:Just don't die - Advice from Last.fm by whyleyc on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @08:36AM (#53800)

Yep - a real world example of what pg was talking about at http://paulgraham.com/die.html.

If you have the idea the trick is to hang in there long enough with it to monetize. I think having a good co-founder can help during the crisis points you'll undoubtedly face.

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Re:Just don't die - Advice from Last.fm by carter on Thursday September 13, 2007 @01:14PM (#54296)

This is my problem. I'm from Russia and I'm working on YC application for this winter funding right now. But those co-founders here in Russia I've been counting on are just afraid to start a startup.

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Re:Just don't die - Advice from Last.fm by tojileon on Wednesday September 12, 2007 @11:48AM (#53878)

...and you don't need a good product to make your users love you. Orkut, for example.

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