Is it me or is every YC company coming out with "joy" as the second part of their name?
* ridejoy
* homejoy
* eventjoy
Nice writeup, but what's up with that bottom photo? I'm looking at the redchair in front of the unoccupied MacBook. If I had to work like that, I'd quit so fast I'd create a Superman 1 style reversal of the space time continuum and bump into myself on the way out the door.
I'm just curious about the reason for this, but I notice a lot of startup's (especially from Y Combinator) tagline is 'The easiest/best/fastest way to x'. Should there be more originality here, or has it tested so successfully that it is recommended for everyone? (I am genuinely asking if there is data to support this, and am not being critical of eventjoy)
Non sequitur, but...
Seeing that whiteboard, after constantly feeling ashamed of my whiteboard writing next to that of my team members, I am just overjoyed to see whiteboard writing that looks as messy as mine. In fact it looks exactly like mine, letter shapes and all.
I expected some minor design tweaks but everything changed. Amazing work for 2 weeks.
I like how you guys offloaded as much unnecessary work as possible (e.g. blog hosting, Tumblr theme, email template).
"the .com was owned by a domain broker in South Korea. Within five minutes we emailed the broker asking for a price. A few hours later we had a price and quickly countered, which ultimately resulted in a low four-figure deal we accepted."
-> On an unrelated note, it seems like buying up a bunch of well-named domains 20 years ago would have been a smart thing to do lol (if you just wanted money). But I guess that's like owning real-estate in a way.
I am curious why the focus went to ticketing and registration instead of back office systems, seems ticketing and reg are already solved problems?
Why is your blog in all caps. Too hard to read -_-
Great job on the relaunch and rebranding, and on the blog as well! Thanks for sharing.
Just so you know, I had a few minor issues on the blog:
- None of the images are visible.
- I think a word and period are missing at the end of this line:
> Todd, one of the Eventjoy co-founders, began the design for the new web product and necessary updates to our existing
Thanks a lot. This helps me think I am on the right track with outsourcing the non critical(non dev) aspects of my startup. I was under the false impression before that a startup consisted of doing the all aspects of the work by myself.
Out of curiosity, what CMS did you use for your help center? My startup is hitting exactly the point where we're getting common questions and need an FAQ.
Great story! Amazing what you can achieve in such a short space of time if you're focused and dedicated.
the like and follow buttons in https://www.eventjoy.com/organizing/ overlap each other
Chrome 33 on Mac OS X
Impressive turnaround. Great job and thanks for the write-up.
I guess eventbrite.com wasn't available...
RED ALLCAPS.
Great post! Keep it up!
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> we had to announce our name change in an upcoming edition of a local newspaper. Yes, it’s exactly like it sounds.
I don't think this is out of the ordinary (in the US). My understanding is that printed fictitious name filings are required in most places when you do business as a name other than your personal name or corporate entity name.
If your town has a weekly alt newspaper, it's usually pretty easy to go through them (and usually < $100).