> I would explain that what makes a startup promising, not just in the eyes of investors but in fact, is growth.
Growth is like cancer. Eventually a company will get big enough to bully others for the sake of growth.
Last night I had dinner with a friend who is building a (yet another) language learning app. Simple fact about language learning, or learning in general: You must practice almost every single day. Even if it is only 5-10 minutes.
To me, the best, most sensical way for learning applications to measure success is to delete user accounts with > 3 days of inactivity. This way you can measure the absolute effectiveness of your program. Students who stick through with your application should 100% become fluent. Target the users who actually want to learn, and measure your success by how many users you made successful.
"NO no no", he says. You'll have no users if you do that.
There's a lot of evidence that taking breaks helps with language learning. And there are several other ways to learn languages. I'll sometimes stop using duo lingo but listen to Spanish language podcasts instead for a couple weeks
Growth is like cancer. Eventually a company will get big enough to bully others for the sake of growth.
Last night I had dinner with a friend who is building a (yet another) language learning app. Simple fact about language learning, or learning in general: You must practice almost every single day. Even if it is only 5-10 minutes.
PG himself said, if you don't die (aka give up), you will eventually succeed: http://www.paulgraham.com/die.html
To me, the best, most sensical way for learning applications to measure success is to delete user accounts with > 3 days of inactivity. This way you can measure the absolute effectiveness of your program. Students who stick through with your application should 100% become fluent. Target the users who actually want to learn, and measure your success by how many users you made successful.
"NO no no", he says. You'll have no users if you do that.