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

https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1014108

by vaksel • 17 years ago

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

cperciva• 17 years ago

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.

dan_sim2• 17 years ago

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

messel3• 17 years ago

hehe

sid-• 17 years ago

How does your service compare to dropbox ?

toisanji2• 17 years ago

the services are totally unrelated

ashishk3• 17 years ago

Ramen profitability. Stat.

messel3• 17 years ago

Good hunting Ashishk. What's your business?

zackattack• 17 years ago

myzamana.com

wensing• 17 years ago

Month-over-month traffic growth.

patio11• 17 years ago

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

dan_sim2• 17 years ago

~100K$

aschobel2• 17 years ago

Faster iterations, better analytics, happier users.

suhail• 17 years ago

mixpanel.com! =)

aschobel2• 17 years ago

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

maxklein• 17 years ago

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.

adam_feldman• 17 years ago

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

zaidf2• 17 years ago

1- Hundreds of happy customers.

2- 200K in sales.

3- Two full-time employees.

4- Fewer mood swings!

christonog• 17 years ago

Best of luck, Zaid!

zaidf2• 17 years ago

Thanks Chris! We gotta catch up soon.

messel3• 17 years ago

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

nicholasreed• 17 years ago

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

DenisM• 17 years ago

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.

baran• 17 years ago

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

nkohari• 17 years ago

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

cookiecaper• 17 years ago

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

uggedal• 17 years ago

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

scootklein• 17 years ago

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

callmeed• 17 years ago

- 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

DanielBMarkham2• 17 years ago

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

aaronblohowiak3• 17 years ago

Charge more for consulting, by a lot.

DanielBMarkham2• 17 years ago

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.

axod• 17 years ago

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

spencerfry• 17 years ago

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.

hkr• 17 years ago

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

vinalk• 17 years ago

revolutionize. Everything else will fall in place.

og1• 17 years ago

Making my side project a full time project.

pxlpshr• 17 years ago

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

sammcd• 17 years ago

Graduate College, Get Married, Launch Second company.

Maybe that is too much :(

PStamatiou• 17 years ago

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).

jarsj• 17 years ago

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

nfnaaron• 17 years ago

Be bold!

jsz0• 17 years ago

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.

aaronblohowiak3• 17 years ago

Do something small.

richardburton• 17 years ago

- 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 :)

toisanji2• 17 years ago

find a cofounder for my project

NathanKP• 17 years ago

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.

Concours• 17 years ago

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.

SAHChandler• 17 years ago

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

keefe• 17 years ago

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.

jparicka• 17 years ago

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

rdl• 17 years ago

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...)

ct• 17 years ago

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.

dhpmx• 17 years ago

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

camperman• 17 years ago

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

il• 17 years ago

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

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