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Dropbox Startup Lessons Learned

108 点作者 cartab超过 14 年前

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msy超过 14 年前
Ironically it's more grief to get access to a download for the slides than it is to sign up for Dropbox.
hanula超过 14 年前
One and only reason I started using Dropbox was because of their desktop app. It was there, available for Linux, simple and easy to install. One click to create an account and I'am a happy user since then, since the beginning. Dropbox is great.
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bentoner超过 14 年前
Here's the video: <a href="http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510" rel="nofollow">http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/b/262672510</a><p>The rest of the videos from this conference are good too: <a href="http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/videos" rel="nofollow">http://www.justin.tv/startuplessonslearned/videos</a>
staunch超过 14 年前
Previous discussion: <a href="http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290303" rel="nofollow">http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1290303</a>
TeMPOraL超过 14 年前
I learned about Dropbox exactly the way slide 28 shows - heard about it from random source, tested, felt happy and started forcing my friends to use it (ie. to coordinate work for university projects). And the funny thing about those "Dozens and dozens of cloud storage companies" that existed prior to Dropbox (as slides 6 and 7 tell)... personally I don't know anyone who knew about any of those companies. I didn't know any of them untill today and for years I was pretty sure that Dropbox guys were the first ones to get that idea (or at least to get it working). And they did a great job with it.
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blantonl超过 14 年前
<i>search is a way to harvest demand, not create it</i><p>This is indeed an incredibly important lesson learned.
JoeAltmaier超过 14 年前
Hm. I guess it works for Enterprise etc, but not for small groups. I've got a high school club, 12 members. We use(d) Dropbox until we "ran out of space". Its $9.99/mo to "upgrade" and we ALL have to pay it.<p>So the business model (from our point of view) is: pay nothing until you're hooked, then its $1,400/year. Ouch! We have to find a different solution.<p>And what is that money paying for? Of course from Dropbox's point of view its "what the market will bear". But from the customer point of view?<p>They say its to "increase your space". But its MY disk drive, I already bought it. So that seems phoney right off.<p>Maybe for all the network transfer costs? Hm, we have 1Gb, to copy it all every week between all of our computers would annualize to a few dollars, not $1400.00.<p>I know they seem successful, but they're still leaving some folks out in the cold with this business model.
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Nemisis7654超过 14 年前
Cool slides. I definitely enjoyed reading those. The fact that I heard about Dropbox exactly how he explained made it that much better.
chris123超过 14 年前
Great slides and great job extending Hotmail/PayPal viral growth formula.
nodata超过 14 年前
The reason I <i>don't</i> recommend dropbox, is that it's not clear from the homepage how someone can send a big file with it.<p>I can watch a video or sign in to an account. Great, but the people I am recommending this to want to share a file: why is there no file upload widget on the homepage?
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