Backpage Why We’re Rejecting Freemium and Building a Sustainable Business Instead Startup pricing’s a touchy subject. Nobody’s quite sure how to do it best [https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=13840282]. And at the end of the day it’s very dependent on your exact situation. But the general consensus is to just double your prices. > Marc Andreessen
Backpage How We Developed Integrations to Kickstart our Early Stage Growth As soon as we beamed our product down to customers we were on a race. A race to grow from nothing to something. Starting at $0 is painful. We knew we'd have to work incredibly hard to get anything and figuring out how to grow is just part
Backpage How We Gained 2 Hours a Day by Experimenting With a New Startup Work Schedule Getting in the zone with work has always been tough for us. Like many other startup founders, getting the most out of each day is crucial. It’s not about the number of hours either—it’s about getting the right work done and doing it to the best of
Backpage How We Took Our Startup from Idea to Paying Customers in 4 Weeks Since we launched HelpDocs 5 months ago I can safely say I’ve learned more than ever before. We’ve taken our fledgling idea from nothing to profitable with over 100 users on paying teams. Getting to this stage, though, has been one of the hardest things I’ve ever
Backpage Why Sharing Your Startup Ideas Online is Usually a Good Thing Back when I was working on my very first startup, I was terrified about sharing my ideas online. We did the whole stealth mode thing. We tried to shroud our idea in secrecy. > In business, stealth mode is a company's temporary state of secretiveness, usually undertaken to
Backpage How Sacrificing Your View Can Boost Your Productivity For a long while, I thought being a productive founder involved having a stunning view. One that inspired me to get stuff done. It makes sense, right? It's totally sensible to think that a good view will help you come up with amazing ideas. It'll help
Backpage Don’t Be Afraid to Make a Good Product With literally hundreds of new ventures being born each day, it’s easy to think that building a startup’s just about slinging together some code and hoping. Throw enough ideas at the wall, and some of them’ll stick. > If you are not embarrassed by the first version