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My startup made $300K in the first week.

7 pointsJohnReel20 comments

Hi.

The other day I noticed a post about someone who had a startup that made $10K in the first few weeks or so.

I'm considering blogging about various aspects of my business success and failures, including the marketing behind it. Like the title says, my startup had revenues of $300K within 7 days of launching and totalling $750K so far... and that is with many things going very wrong, and of course some things going quite right early on.

The question is, does anyone here care to hear about my stories? If I blog on this stuff, should I submit links to Hacker News?

Thank you, John.

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I'm suspicious. The number seems off, as does the coy pitch. But I'd be curious to hear more.

http://www.GoTryTHIS.com

Yeah... how about no.

Uh, oh. "Affiliate marketing." I think we have our answer.

See the way it works, is that I sell you the right to sell this book for a small cut, and then you sell that right to other people but you take a cut, so its LIKE a pyramid scheme, but its not actually one ... I swear.

I know that "Explaining a joke is like dissecting a frog: you understand it better, but the frog dies in the process." </quote>, but could you elaborate what are you talking about?

The website for GoTryThis2 looks like a spam e-mail. I am looking at it, and I can't actually figure out what it does. Is it a webapp? A piece of software that I download? Something else? All I see is "affiliate marketing", "increase profits" blah blah blah. I don't mean to sound like I am bitter or something - I am sure you make a lot of money doing whatever it is you are doing, but the feel and presentation of your gotrythis.com site is a major turn-off, the same kind of turn-off I get when I consider the possibility of making a business out of spamming or domain squatting.

http://johnreel.com/blog/

Um, yeah... thanks, but no thanks.

What is this? The Digital Point forums?

Naturally we're interested. Like a fellow commenter mentions, though, the numbers seem off.

Give us a little more to work with here.

$300K revenue in seven days is spectacular for a startup with $100 in funding making a website about cute cat pictures.

It's less spectacular when there's a pile of VC money, the revenue comes from steel trading deals and the profit on the $300K is about $10.

But hey, I'd be interested in reading about it either way. Fire up that blog engine and submit some links!

In general, I think it is better to write your story and ask, than ask then write your story ...unless you want to build anticipation.

I am sure most people here would be very interested to know more and well written, objective, thoughtful, and insightful pieces are always appreciated regardless of where on the internet you submit them (but especially here).

If you have an interesting story to tell, you should tell it. At best you'll help people by recounting your experiences and likely have some interesting conversation in the process. At worst you'll have lost nothing but the 30 minutes it takes to write the post.

only if you have proof/photos of the actual checks for the revs...

peace

If you really have a start up, not a pyramid scheme, definitely.

I think I speak for everyone here when I say that we like those types of things because they adds to our collective intelligence.

Hi John, I'd be interested in hearing your story. Submitting a link here is harmless. If the article doesn't catch on it won't get voted up.

I'm interested in hearing your story. I'd even be interested if your revenues came from porn or gambling.

His "startup" http://www.gotrythis.com

undead,

I think you should better blog about the reason of success of those start up, that would be better !

proof proof proof

absolutely !

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