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by kickme444 8y ago
Gilman was a huge part of my life and I played various roles in participating and helping to manage it over the year, though I don't want to take ANY credit for this, it's not my place and no person should. But, the experience I
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by kickme444 9y ago
We were actually a company just shy of 2 years.
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by kickme444 9y ago
No I hadn't considered this, thanks for the suggestion.
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by kickme444 9y ago
TL;DR - we over built. We were too close to the problem from our experiences at reddit and built WAY too much stuff that only really matters if you are operating at scale. If we had done better with this, we could have gone to market quick
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by kickme444 9y ago
Whoops, I accidentally a word. Thanks!
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by kickme444 9y ago
No, there wasn't. We never had enough volume to worry about that.
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by kickme444 9y ago
TBH we never got to the point of monetization.
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by kickme444 9y ago
To clarify, growth of users.
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by kickme444 9y ago
We were unable to find growth in any cohort.
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by kickme444 9y ago
We're in SLC and still have the majority of that money left.
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by kickme444 9y ago
Hi, I'm the founder of Imzy. It's a hard day but I want to make myself available, especially to entrepreneurs who may have questions. This last 2 years has been fun, and hard and I've learned a lot. You can reply here or e
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How can I as a startup CEO encourage people to vote?(imzy.com)
6 points by kickme444 10y ago|0 comments
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by kickme444 10y ago
Well, there's a lot to it and the more you use it the more you understand it. I think we need to get a lot better at getting the real value prop to new users in a better way, so thanks for highlighting this. For now though, there&#x27
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by kickme444 10y ago
Happy to answer any questions about the fundraising process.
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How one little community helped us raise $8M(imzy.com)
28 points by kickme444 10y ago|13 comments
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Imzy raises $8M Series A round, opens communities platform to everyone(techcrunch.com)
12 points by kickme444 10y ago|0 comments
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by kickme444 10y ago
I'm available here to answer any questions!
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Our journey building Imzy in the first year(medium.com)
9 points by kickme444 10y ago|1 comments
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by kickme444 10y ago
Happy to discuss anything here, also happy to give any and all HN users early access if you request it at https://www.imzy.com/imzy !
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Imzy private beta update, looking to the future(medium.com)
1 points by kickme444 10y ago|1 comments
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by kickme444 10y ago
Crap sorry, I was offline all night being with my family and didn't see this soon enough. In short, Imzy is attempting to find a way to align the company as best as we can with the communities. We recognize that there is no one-size-f
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by kickme444 10y ago
I'm not, and I don't appreciate the accusation.
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by kickme444 10y ago
I was not a source.
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by kickme444 10y ago
I have a thesis that is basically identical to yours about unmanaged expectations and community being the main root of the problem that reddit/twitter/etc are facing, which is part of the reason why we started Imzy https:/&#
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Conviction in the Winter(medium.com)
2 points by kickme444 10y ago|0 comments
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by kickme444 10y ago
Happy to answer questions here or give people invitations. If you request an invitation to https://www.imzy.com/imzy it's much easier for me to get people in than the front page!
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An article about Imzy that actually talked to the company(beehivestartups.com)
9 points by kickme444 10y ago|1 comments
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by kickme444 10y ago
I said we didn't say warm and fuzzy. You don't understand that?
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by kickme444 10y ago
I have spent a good amount of my last 6 years or so trying to be happy and helping others online to be happy. What we wanted with our mascot was something that evoked happiness. Admittedly it's a fine line to walk between cute/ha
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by kickme444 10y ago
Just to put it out there, we never said anything about warmer or fuzzier. We had no intention of having any press coverage for a few months, perhaps that was a mistake for this reason exactly.

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