hellokhoaphan

Last year it was all revenue, but we'll be approaching the 7-figure profit mark this year.

First off, I wanted to say congratulations to your fast growth and determination to succeed. I've personally decided to skip college myself and have never looked back. I'm going to share my thoughts with you, feel free to let me know what you think:

Three years have past and I've gone from having a $700 limit on my credit card to a 7-figure/yr marketing business. I'm not saying this to show off, but to show you that it doesn't take a college education to become "successful" in this lifetime. However, I'm not saying that you can sit pretty without a degree and still become a success; you've seriously gotta work your ass off. It's probably a lot harder for us, since we're not accepted in society as a person with a Bachelor's would be, but this is where resourcefulness and persistence kicks in.

There's a certain stigma around dropping out, as I've seen the past three years. People look at you differently and treat you differently, until you prove to them otherwise. I suppose it could be due to the fact that we've been encouraged and pushed to do well in school and to graduate; it's the "normal" way of doing things. I look at all of the YC founders and most are graduates or undergraduates of prestigious universities like Stanford or MIT. This didn't faze me one bit. I'm used to this kind of competition and I'm ready to prove to PG that I'm worth his attention. Come with this attitude and you can't lose, most people don't expect this from someone who has dropped out. Be unexpected.

Good luck to you and your ventures, looking forward to seeing some more good things from you soon, Josh.

Real awesome tool, great job Steve.

On a side note though, anyone who seriously uses this tool to play 'Draw Something' is missing out on the concept of the game, which is to use your creativity to draw up something that users can then guess.

If you're using a tool to help you guess a word the correct word, then you're doing the "drawer" a disservice by basically saying to them that their drawing is good enough, when it really isn't... seeing as you couldn't guess what it was.

It's like funding a start up that you know is destined to fail and you keep telling them to keep on keeping on with the doomed idea; or in this case, their crappy drawings that you can't guess!

I truly believe in taking the core concept of an idea and making it better -- if companies and start ups lag behind and leave room for innovation, why not capitalize on it?

If a company is always progressing and improving upon it's product or service, then this leaves less room for people to come in and steal their idea and "improve" upon it. Even if there are copycats that come into the market and try to improve upon the core concept, the fact that you're working to build upon your business inspires loyalty and reach among your base of users. I think it's these types of companies that are the hardest to compete with, making stealing their idea even tougher to execute.

For while you're waiting: http://mashable.com/2012/03/23/instagram-alternatives/

I think I've clicked that re-submit button more times than I have clicked a "like" button on Facebook!