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As we talked more it became clear that he and his company were following what I’d call the young-man’s business model.
He was basically building a (good) product, then laying it out on the web for all to see and hoping to get a million eyeballs. The viewpoint of the business is to get eyeballs, often from things like Digg or Techcrunch, and then figure out how to keep them. And then amazingly often, this really is the step where entrepreneurs have no clue what happens except they are sure the next step is “and then Profit!”.
It’s a nice to think that everything is a part of you and you of it. But you’re alone. And people don’t change.