From Zero to a Million Users - Dropbox and Xobni Lessons Learned

Surprisingly engaging considering that it's just the slides from their talk. Does anyone have a link to a video (or even just audio)?

Slide 57 is a good one (Netflix):<p>Total Lifetime Value of a user: $6/mo x 22 mo. lifetime = $132<p>Acquisition Cost of user: $40 affiliate or advertising<p>Lifetime gross profit of user: $92

Seems like a great complement to Drew's other lessons learned deck: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290303" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290303</a>

How Dropbox is different from hundreds of "storage in the cloud" companies ? All of what I saw in the slideshow I might assume was more or less done by the other companies. General marketing fluff that is quite obvious.( Nothing against Dropbox, since I'm a happy user). Luck played a certain part(big part?). I want to see the slideshows of companies that took years to get to 100,000 users :) Then I might think they had less luck and their lessons would apply to your average startup. Patrick McKenzie for example (no offence), I don't think he was lucky it just lots and lots of work and I get real gems from his talks/blogs...

Interesting to note from a success story how little tech and how much marketing was involved.

Great slideshow. I voted with my wallet for DropBox after buying my iPhone and finding them in the AppStore. I don't really need 50GB worth of storage, but it's an awesome app that I'll make daily use of, so it seemed a shame to stick to the free account and not say thanks by subscribing.

Is this Xobni really comparable to Dropbox? I mean, I hadn't heard of Xobni until just now.

Awesome slides - inspiring stuff!

Funny timing, since I just got spam [1] from Dropbox.<p>[1] It was an email from an address I don't recognize using a first name that no one I know has.

Nice slides.