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Must read for anyone considering hiring a team to build their product.

Entrepreneurs are -- serious ones less so.

...and businesses

Isn't the product the experiment?

This is more geared towards the administrative stuff that adds no value and is an excuse to doing actual work.

How so?? I see no issues with that at all.

Github is unfortunately down right now....

Please give me feedback via email, david@fotary.com. Thank you!

I demanded $40MM a year in compensation and the use of a private jet. I was told no.

Once again, the example given in the post was not an actual test. I was using the idea as an example to guide the article.

The startup idea in the article isn't the focus.

Hahaha

But you still leave open the possibility of not learning the basics of whether or not someone wants the problem solved.

It's the best one I've seen. There is also http://www.instapage.com/ but it's not as good and I've run into problems with pages not loading -- and when you're paying for traffic to hit a page, you want it to load.

Well, the problem with doing that at this stage of the process is you risk getting the initial price completely wrong and nobody clicks it.

Even though, if you had priced it just $20 lower, everyone would have clicked it.

So by putting price in the mix before you even identify a willing market, you risk missing the ball completely.

The quality of the people coming to the site, in my experience has been the same.

I actually have better CTR on adCenter compared to AdWords for the same ads on the same keywords (marginally better).

So it's really come down to cost for me. In my experiences it's consistently double or more for the top keywords in the bunch.

I've personally never run a massive campaign to drive tens of thousands of visitors to a site through either service. My guess is, if you need high volume of people quickly, you need AdWords.

That was just an example, not the basis for the process.

It's back up -- upgraded the server.

It has! It's at Rackspace and I'm working on getting it on the largest server they have.

Didn't expect to hit the front page.

Moniker.com -- simply the best, no jokes.