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Offering money to encourage participation (hey Neil I'm talking to you!)
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Use Twitter ??
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How does a kid create a $38mm business?
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If you're interested in building long-term, sustainable and profitable software businesses then you should come to Business of Software 2009. Over two and half days in November you'll hear Joel Spolsky, Geoffrey Moore, Donald Norman, Paul Graham and…
I agree with most of what Michael says, but I think there is another element at play here. That is that Neil traditionally offers "$20 for the best reply/post". So I think the $20 is just a token of the recognition of "providing the best/most insigh…
Overall I agree with your thoughts here with one important distinction.
If Neil offered $200 instead of $20 would it make a difference? How about $50?
One of the important things we sometimes forget is how global the Internet audience is. $20 is not…
Michael,
You're absolutely right. The $20 thing was a spur of the moment decision that occurred to me a fraction of a second before I hit the 'post' button. In retrospect, the humping dog toy would have been a better idea.
Ariely's book is awesome…
Not to unfairly pick on our host, but I want to have a discussion on using money to get people to participate.
Neil offered $20 for the best comment on a post he made the other day and it got me thinking if this was counterproductive. For me anyway…
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Probably the best question from the article starts with
You took your business from 0 dollars in revenue to 38.5 million dollars. How did you get your revenue that high and how long did it take you to do that?
Joel details this in Jessica Livingston's great book Founders at Work, but we started Fog Creek Software as a consulting company. In 2000, the market crashed and the demand for consultants dried up in a matter of weeks. All the web design companies…
I realize you aren't looking for a place to publish. I was just telling you the stories from your blog had already popped up on those sites, so in the future if you are looking for the "pulse" of new ideas, etc, that affect programmers, those are tw…
I'd keep my eye on these two websites:
http://news.ycombinator.com/
and
http://stackoverflow.com
if you want to publish info about current news topics or items.
I found out about the computer glasses, and the Google Ajax thing from yCombinator…
For our company it's about 3% of revenue.
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