Solving your startup's cold start problem... or not.

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by TWSS • 15 years ago

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FredBrach• 15 years ago

Ouch.. was writing a looonng post here when my computer crashed... Rrrr murphy's law...

So well, haha, was writing I was not impressed by the article but the topic interest me a lot. And I was trying to figure out how facebook did? because imagine you come on facebook and there is nobody you know... It should have happened a lot at the beginning... Did the idea itself of facebook kept the people in it? Some kind of: "this site could be great" Really?

I also imagined that all first facebook's users were its own sales force. After a party: "Hey do you have a facebook account?" On a piece of paper: "Here is my facebook number cute boy"

EDIT: and also since facebook is very group-oriented, a member of a "group" (family, sport team...) would invite its mates to go on facebook.

Do you have any other suggestion to solve what is called here "the cold start problem"?

Solving your startup's cold start problem... or not.

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