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That's not marketing, dude, that's some thin shreds of organic traffic. Perhaps you should listen to tptacek, wheels, jacquesm (and myself) and actually find someone who's competent at building a business, just as you are competent at building technology, and team up with them.

Would Steve Wozniak be considered successful by any metric if only 100 Apple computers had ever been sold? No. A business needs many things, of which a great product is only one. "Make something people want" implies you need people (enough of them) to actually want your product. If they've never heard of it or if they don't buy it because of some other reason, they don't want it. If only very few people buy your product, it's because it sucks on some important metrics.

Harsh reality: until you get your head out of your ass and bring in someone with the skills to turn your technology into a business, you don't even have one founder, because you don't really have a business at all... yet.



That's not marketing, dude, that's some thin shreds of organic traffic.

I'd say it's a thick shred. :-)

One of the benefits of Dropbox's popularity is that there are a very large number of people who google for "dropbox security".




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