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by tyre 3615 days ago
Short answer: Everything.

Longer answer: you keep building something people need. You spend 100% of your time either acquiring users, talking to users, or building what users need.

You set one metric for the company and work towards that. As an early company, that is usually users. Then it is revenue.

That's really all there is.

If being on product hunt gets you users, that's awesome. If not, it's a waste of time.

If being on HN gets you users or feedback from potential users, that's awesome. Otherwise, it is a waste of time. (I'm going to download this and see if I can spin something up for https://romuluscrm.com, so you got at least 1!)

1) Build something people want. 2) Get it into the hands of those people. 3) Charge them money in proportion to the value you're providing. ... 879412309) IPO

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awesome post, thanks for the detailed reply I'm still deciphering everything. Literally making notes in Evenote.

If you need anything at all, tech assistance etc. please feel free to email me: zahid [at] redbeard.io

I'll be using my twitter too from now on that's @zahid

Will do. I haven't written ObjC in years, but your site does a good job of getting me interested.

If you have questions about running a company, I'm chris [at] seneca.systems