I published a complete overview tour of the new WooThemes dashboard experience
[http://www.woothemes.com/2011/09/a-tour-of-the-new-woothemes/] earlier today,
and since this project has been my little baby (more like a ten ton gorilla, but
let's leave it at that), I wanted to share some of the thoughts
Obvious answer: we had no money and probably didn't know enough or think far
enough to consider outside funding (not that I think we would've gotten it had
we look for it).
But seeing this post - Ten Highly Successful Bootstrapped Startups
[http://www.softwarebyrob.com/2011/09/01/ten-highly-successful-bootstrapped-startups/
I don't really believe in titles within company context much and to this extent
we've avoided using titles over at WooThemes [http://adii.me/2010/08/907987773/]
. But I recently realized that sometimes a title of sorts does become valuable.
In the last couple of weeks, I've been speaking to
In the last couple of days - more so than ever before - I just realized again
how much I've grown up as a person, entrepreneur and also as the co-founder of
WooThemes (where we're releasing our 100th theme tomorrow
[http://www.woothemes.com/2011/08/teasing-number-100/]). This brings about
On Monday we launched a brand-new user dashboard at WooThemes
[http://www.woothemes.com/2011/08/this-is-the-new-woo/] (which felt like suicide
[http://adii.me/2011/08/committing-startup-suicide/] at the time) and it's not
been without the expected launch bugs
[http://www.woothemes.com/2011/08/the-new-dashboard-growing-pains/].
I've learnt in the
I'm typing this as WooThemes prepares to roll out on of our biggest projects to
date and I can't help to remind myself of all of the articles that suggests
rewriting one's code is like committing startup suicide
[http://steveblank.com/2011/01/25/startup-suicide-–-rewriting-the-code/] (more
here [http://venturebeat.
I hate feeling like things are in limbo; especially in business. I guess this is
a natural consequence of the fact that I'm not the most patient guy you're
likely to ever meet.
At the moment, it feels like we're working on 4 / 5 of the biggest projects ever
at
I recently ran an extensive user survey at WooThemes to get some validation for
ideas that we were toying with for a new marketing strategy. One of the aims of
the new strategy is to increase customer lifetime value (and related metrics
such as user engagement & user retention), and so
I'd like to share a recent exchange I had with a customer:
1. Customer notes to us that he is struggling to achieve something with our
product.
2. We explain that this is currently a limitation, but immediately update &
release a new version of the product to help the customer
I'm limited. My skills are finite. Regardless of how many new things I learn, my
skills set is not limitless. This obviously means that there is only a limited
number of things in my life that I will be truly good at. Some skills I may be
able to enhance