Great slides! I especially enjoyed the "great decisions"/"bad decisions" part, I catched myself currently doing some of the "bad decisions" - like focusing too much on short term ups and downs.<p>Can you share the PDF? The link on SpeakerDeck doesn't work.
Great deck for those of us working toward a switch from a service model to a product model. It's rare that the lifestyle aspects (marriage, home, children) are covered in decks about startups or bootstrapping, but those are such HUGE considerations if you have (or want) a life outside of your work.<p>I'm not a Sifter user (different needs), but I've gleaned a lot of professional insight from your posts/interviews/presentations in the last few months. Thanks for sharing so openly.
I've been aware of Sifter for a while but it's great to get the inside story.<p>I particularly liked your point about building features that no-one used - I'm sure it was kinda hard to watch all that hard work go to waste.<p>You might have covered this in your talk, but which features did you add that you could have omitted? Without having that usage data early on, is there any way you could have done this differently?<p>Your slides are awesome by the way :)
What made you get into this market in particular? What are your main channels for new customers? What were the biggest lessons on the business and marketing end?