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Most definitely - we love honesty. Can you flesh out your comment a little? I think most businesses have problems getting traction to start out - what specific challenges are you seeing?

Great feedback. You can press esc to exit the nudge dialog - we purposefully made it hard to exit because we wanted people to engage in seemingly silly questions, because in our experience, that's when you have breakthroughs. As an aside, we've also noticed that the tool doesn't work unless you have a legitimate problem that you care about and are trying to solve - made up problems just don't cut it.

I agree that we could do better at communicating progress and more about the process - I think this is one of the major things we need to work on.

We're not thinking about charging for it right now, it's just a proof of concept to answer the question "Can software make someone more creative"?

We're not worried about people leaving and applying the skills elsewhere, since what we've seen in practice is people who've paid thousands of dollars to learn these skills revert to their old habits once real problems pop up.

Thanks a lot for giving it a shot, and for your feedback!

Please, please fix "I am a good writer, the content that I create is quiet good (I think)". That's the first line of your paragraph about gramatical oversights, and you say "quiet" instead of "quite". Also, the "(i think)" makes me feel like you're not a professional.

ALSO, I'm sure you can hire someone on craigslist to give your work a second read for gramatical mistakes, if that's really a blind spot you care about.

But I worry, are you even trying to get better? It sounds like you've accepted your current skill level as a fixed balance that can't improve, when that's probably not the case.

I agree. I can't help but feel that MIT's brand is being terribly tarnished. It certainly wasn't worth it.

I would imagine they would give the digital good away for free, and add it as a separate line-item in checkout, so vat would be 15% of $0.

I think the average InstaCart customer doesn't realize that per-item prices are higher. I didn't.

I noticed you guys used the same form UI as Barack Obama's donation page. I like it!

I agree with most of what you said. Sharing needs to be #1 to have viral growth. Large audiences are required for IAP and Advertising to make sense (I'd also add freemium to that list). An intrinsically leaky funnel needs even heavier viral growth to get to those large audiences. Heavy viral growth is probably going to be at odds with privacy.

But I think you need to pay attention to what others are saying. If you can't get users to complete a series of tasks to get to your value proposition, either the (expected) value you're offering is too low, or the expected probability of getting that value is too low.

In other words, with a high enough value proposition, you should theoretically be able to get someone to do something EXTREMELY difficult.

What stops other investment firms from making identical blanket investments, or how do you guys plan to stop that?

This is patently not true, and a very low-value article. Pay per use has been around just as long as SAAS, and most businesses prefer knowing what they will pay rather than getting variable bills, because

1) they're risk averse and want to know what pricing they're signing up for (pay-per-use is often much more difficult to figure out what you'll wind up paying in the end)

2) most businesses operate within known budgets, and introducing new software on a pay-per-use basis may hurt their ability to accurately plan those budgets.

What's the difference between your site optimizer and cloudflare's optimization?

That's an interesting powerpoint at the bottom of the techcrunch article.

I see your argument that slower page loads leads to less engagement and higher bounce rates, and I'm somewhat skeptical - how do you know that your data isn't saying that more engaging websites are faster because they're more engaging?

If being engaging is correlated with delivering more value, they're likely more profitable and more able to invest in higher quality engineering & infrastructure than other sites. This would likely lead to decreased load times. In other words, how do you know the cause from the effect?

I think the only way to make the argument you're trying to make is to compare each website with itself when loaded slower.