Remove 2004 Remove Cost Remove Green Remove Viral
article thumbnail

The pioneers of Silicon Valley’s fast culture on how to grow quickly, not recklessly

Reid Hoffman

And, as the industrial revolution showed us, there are some real costs to scale. The implication is that blitzscaling ignores things like “business model innovations that were rooted in a future that the competition didn’t yet understand” in favor of “spending to acquire customers below cost.”. The third is high gross margins.

article thumbnail

What the Past Can Tell Us About the Future of Social Networking

Both Sides of the Table

There was a backlash against the Plaxo spamming yet it paved the way for everybody who came after them to get users to drive viral adoption and we’d throw up our arms and say, “oh boy, here goes another social network that my friends are going to spam me about&# mentality that made it acceptable for everybody who came afterward.

Insiders

Sign Up for our Newsletter

This site is protected by reCAPTCHA and the Google Privacy Policy and Terms of Service apply.

article thumbnail

Transcript And MP3 Of My $180,000 Website Flipping Presentation

Entrepreneurs-Journey.com by Yaro Starak

In 2004 I began blogging. The difference here is the entry-level cost to buying web property, not physical property, is much lower than what it is to buy real-world properties. It made this site very sticky and it grew organically through viral word-of-mouth as a result of doing that. That website gave me money to play with.

article thumbnail

Blitzscaling Creativity with DALL-E

Reid Hoffman

By 1900, the Kodak Brownie could be had for $1, a roll of film with six exposures cost a dime, and photography had shifted from a narrow domain of skilled professionals to a much broader one of amateurs spontaneously documenting the world as they saw it. To see this in action, consider the DALL-E images that go viral on Reddit and Twitter.

Warrant 44
article thumbnail

CEO Friday: Why we don’t hire.NET programmers

blog.expensify.com

Shame on you for spinning your desire for junior developers as being solely related to cost. ” My guess would have more to do with the costs of Windows Server licensing and the Visual Studio IDE than with the capabilities of.NET or C# (of which the above post demonstrates an extremely limited understanding). originalgeek.

Java 107