On: My experiences on a one month startup

[immad]

advertising is a clear and big monetization strategy. A lot of startups use it effectively.

[vaksel → immad]

Yes but it requires you to achieve a huge userbase before you start seeing any significant profit, and honestly I don't see his startup being able to do that, because I'm guessing his niche is very small

[immad → vaksel]

My comment was regarding the statement:

"The one caveat was that each project must have to have a clear and realistic path to monetization (for example: subscription, not advertisement)"

I don't think an advertising monetized startup is unclear or unrealistic and it means that you discount a lot of ideas from the start.

[paul → immad]

Yes, realistically neither subscription nor advertisement is likely to bring in a lot of money. My guess is that they want to do things the "37 signals" way, and that means acting as though advertising isn't "realistic".

[jasonb05 → paul]

yeah, the video of DHH's talk at startup school influenced the team a lot!