What Startups Are Really Like

Re:What Startups Are Really Like by gcv on Sunday October 25, 2009 @10:11PM (#902504)

I'd like to (slightly) challenge #8: it seems to me that Dropbox is a counterexample. The Dropbox guys took quite a long time and their first release was quite polished. Not perfect, certainly, but way, way ahead of just minimally functional.

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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by pmjordan on Monday October 26, 2009 @10:16AM (#903224)

I think that's in no small part due to the problem Dropbox solves. Don't forget this problem has been "solved" about a gazillion times before, but the lack of polish made those "solutions" unusable in practice.

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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by netsp on Monday October 26, 2009 @01:58AM (#902705)

I think this is just semantics, the definition of 'launch' for this purpose can be pretty flexible.

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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by snprbob86 on Sunday October 25, 2009 @11:42PM (#902587)

They were also their own target users. I'm sure they ate their own dog food quite a bit.

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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by JoeAltmaier on Monday October 26, 2009 @09:10AM (#903081)

I'll disagree. DropBox is somewhat slick, but has embarrassing flaws. They have some way to go. So I guess they did it right!

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Re:What Startups Are Really Like by breck on Monday October 26, 2009 @04:35AM (#902823)

instead of "counterexample", use "exception to the rule".

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