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What startups did Ryan Carson do? All I've seen of his is that little file uploader clone he sold off in like 6 months.

It seems to me like he gave up on trying to build successful webapps and is now just trying to sell "How To Mine Gold" books and conferences to the actual miners.

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The first startup I built was DropSend which did $250,000 of profit a year, which was sold after about 18 months. That's the "little file uploader" you're referring to.

The second startup I've built is our events business. We've grown that to $2m+ in revenue per year.

The third startup I've done is Think Vitamin Membership which is now at $1m in revenue after just 12 months.

Boom. roasted

Most people wouldn't consider conferences or online video lectures to be "startups". Just like most people wouldn't consider a blog a startup. They're also not product based and certainly not webapps.

That raises a really interesting point: what constitutes a "startup"? Does it have to be product based?

Started a new thread for this question http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2642425

I was going to put effort in to responding, but on second thought, it's just not worth the five minutes that would require. Best of luck to you Staunch.

Would just like to say that we are subscibed to the membership, and your videos and content are top notch, and one of the best 50$ I spend a month. Keep doing trainings, dont do webapps. :)

Thanks Shabda - really appreciate that :)

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