Come for the Ride!

Many web startups and blogs are born each day with the dream that banner advertising will be the answer to solve all of our problems. Unfortunately for this startup, I too was guilty of this when we first hatched the free classifieds idea.

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After talking to entrepreneurs and observing web based startup teams over the last couple of years, it’s becoming easier to spot teams that will succeed vs. teams that may succeed. One notable things about teams that are more likely to succeed, the ones that have been staying on track week-to-week, is that they have diversity on their team – mainly separating the role of business development and technical development into two or more people.

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The topic of 2009 goals was a suggestion made over Skribit and I think it’s a great suggestion and something that every entrepreneur should do as we head into the new year. But before we spell out the master plan for 2009, I’d like to point out a tweet I saw from David Cummings a couple of days ago which I also thought was great. Read more…

Bootstrapping a startup is certainly not all fun and games and unlike a day job, you can’t clock out and you don’t get benefits.  We are coming up on our year one of operations as a team.  What started as an idea over a year ago has now blossomed into a tangible service with over 1.8 million cars serving almost 80,000 users a month.  We basically have 50% of AutoTrader’s inventory right now and looking to grow like Dubai skyscrapers.  What a difference a year makes.

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Things have been super busy here for the EasyAutoSales team – so busy that we skipped our April update. However, the good news is that we’re finally starting to see some fruition from our hours and hours of hard work.

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