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Ask HN: What are your goals for your startups in 2010?

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Everyone has goals, what are your top goals for 2010?

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Actually make enough money to live a comfortable life. I'm sick of being poor.

$45k in bingo card sales. $30k in bingo profits. Paying customers for something other than bingo.

Ramen profitability. Stat.

Good hunting Ashishk. What's your business?

myzamana.com

Are you A/B testing your landing page? Most dating sites have pictures of faces on their landing pages..

I have a separate landing page that I use for marketing. And yep - A/B testing is critical.

Thanks Zack =)

If anyone from HN signs up, let me know and I'll upgrade your account for you.

My goal for Tarsnap is the same as my goal for life: I plan to end 2010 with 10x as many customers as I start it with.

if you would offer your service to canadians, you would already have 3 more customers ;)

hehe

How does your service compare to dropbox ?

the services are totally unrelated

Faster iterations, better analytics, happier users.

mixpanel.com! =)

Thanks! we use KISSmetrics right now, i need to give mixpanel.com another look

Launch one of 3 projects as an actual startup, quit dayjob.

1) infrastructure/platform related to security 2) hardware device with social network features 3) consumer-focused webapp in data aggregation/presentation

I've spent the last couple months since getting back from Afghanistan working on all 3 at early stages, finding potential cofounders, clients, funding, etc., and am pretty much at the decision point. Should be going full-time with one of them in January (I need to hit a vesting cliff of 12-31-2009 before doing so, counting down the hours...)

When I applied for YC'10 I was told my plans are not sufficiently ambitious. One of my goals, therefore, is to grow ambitiousness of my (other) goals.

And yours should be, too. Dare to aim high.

I was told by during YC'10 our plans are too ambitious. Want to join forces?

I guess I posted this in the wrong thread. Here are mine:

Plans: (1) Add a few more members to the team. (2) Lease our own office instead of sublease. (3) Release the new version of our app. (4) Expand two more verticals. (5) Get more mainstream press. (6) Finish moving our core team to New York City. We're currently 2 of 4 in NYC. (7) Start our newsletter. (8) Do more charity work. (9) Start a meetup. (10) Get involved in local NYC art/design scene more than I already am.

1) Discovering the value proposition that brings in users by word of mouth to our social/semantic search page.

2) setting up our own rock solid ad network + stats

3) generating revenue from ads/affiliate links

4) hiring our first consultants/freelancers (may shift to employees but we'll let it happen based on relationships with the folks that we work with)

5) making a ton of connections across industries and skyrocketing my businesses chances of massive disruption to the ad and search markets

By february, want to reach $12000 a month, from about $8000 at the moment. Want to diversify and do something I can be more proud of and actually boast about, while increasing sales to bring in $30.000 a month = $1000 a day.

I don't yet know what I can do to reach my target, but will work on it. Also, want to improve my management skills so I am more diplomatic but still get things done in the right way.

Actually reach profitability with my News plattform, move the platform oto a reliable VPS , Make my mobile plattform service a standard for bloggers and implement a revenue Model for Bloggers in the plattform. By the end of 2010, the mobile plattform should be a must have for every site out there.

- Taken on two extra staff for my first startup and get it to the point where I just check the numbers once a week whilst providing three people a great income and me with an awesome, passive income.

- Create an awesome new SaaS business with a really smart cofounder and see where it takes us.

- Live the dream :)

50.000 free users: http://wasitup.com/stats/

I'd like to just put together an idea and see it through to the end. The success of the project isn't all that important to me really. I'd just like the experience of doing it. Maybe someday I'd have a really good idea and would be prepared to make it happen.

Do something small.

Make money by writing an algorithm for trading. I've tried the startup thing for so long now (over 20 yrs), and haven't succeeded and so I think I just don't have what it takes. Time to move on and try something else for a change instead of beating a dead horse.

- Launch 1 new app in our industry

- Launch 2 new apps in other industries

- Hit 2M in sales

- Get a provisional patent and some prototypes done for a physical product/invention I have in mind

I want to launch the first beta of my news aggregator focused on promoting discussion of controversial political topics by February

I would really like to see my current startup through to the end without getting sucked back into the easy money of consulting.

Charge more for consulting, by a lot.

That's the current plan.

But starving isn't so much fun either. The trick is to find the right rate as quickly as possible.

I think my top goal is to get at least 1000 customers. I currently have about 25, so scaling up will be an exciting process.

1- Hundreds of happy customers.

2- 200K in sales.

3- Two full-time employees.

4- Fewer mood swings!

Best of luck, Zaid!

Thanks Chris! We gotta catch up soon.

Add 1000+ new members, find contributors/partners, make site the best it can be ! oh and make a couple of bucks too !

Making my side project a full time project.

Other than keeping our customers happy, our goal for 2010 is growth. We just hit sustainability in early December.

Launch this bad boy http://beepl.com - maybe in few weeks time....

Spend far less time on hackernews/reddit/facebook/etc and far more time doing productive work.

Launch at the start of February Expand nationally by the end of the year Ramen profitable by 6 months

Month-over-month traffic growth.

goals in general:

Market and grow to 50,000 users, find way to hire full-time developers.

Keep experimenting with monetizing my blog and grow to $3-4k/month.

Eat less red meat and jog more.

Pay off more student loans.

Buy a laptop/netbook for newborn nephew and get him hooked.

Find a girlfriend again.

Move my money around (read: ditch Bank of America).

Get to $1 million in revenues, get an office, start hiring employees.

launch my 3 year old web app to the public and watch the data flow from a pile of people using it. Get the code efficient enough that the pile doesn't break the bank in server costs.

Build a product that I (bold I) am happy using as an unbiased user.

Be bold!

1. Shipping the game 2. 10 000+ people buying it because it's fun

Graduate College, Get Married, Launch Second company.

Maybe that is too much :(

disrupt an industry that overcharges their customers because their hardware and infrastructure requirements are out-dated; they haven't innovated since the 1990's.

Start my business in some way shape or form. :D

pricing structure (please God). also, hands-off approach to marketing and sales with an affiliate force

leave my not-so-technical job to discover a real passion

revolutionize. Everything else will fall in place.

find a cofounder for my project

~100K$

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