Domain First, Plan Later

from the the-new-way-of-building-online-businesses dept

Thu, Sep 30th 1999 11:36am — Mike Masnick

Internet craziness continues. The guy who spent half a million dollars on computer.com seems to have no real strategy on what to do with it, but thinks he's going to win the world anyway. General rule of thumb in the internet startup world: if someone says "the market is this big, so even if we just get 1% we'll be so big" has absolutely no clue what they're doing and should be avoided at all costs.

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mischa, 1 Oct 1999 @ 5:45pm

the marketing guys at the startup i work at say th
The marketing guys at the startup I work at say that all the time...

that and:

"there is no market leader right now, so its very important that we're first to market"

and a bunch of other marketing things...

i smile and nod.
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Mike (profile), 3 Oct 1999 @ 5:44pm

Re: the marketing guys at the startup i work at sa
The trick is always figuring out which marketing speak is really being used to explain something and which is just being used by the marketing guy to convince *himself* of the idea or concept he/she is pitching...
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