Guy seems to know a lot about analytics, CTR, and such for someone who only works 1 hour a week. Just writing that blog post surely took up at least 1/3 of his total work allotment for this week.
It is prudent to create a sufficiently interesting image to attract media attention. The I'm rich and don't give a fuck image seems to play pretty well.
Where are you getting the idea that someone who spends n hours a week on their business should be completely ignorant of things that affect the business the other 168-n? Furthermore, how is that idea actually relevant to this submission aside from being an attack on the author?
From your link: Markus Frind works one hour a day. Not week, day. You didn't even get the figure you were criticizimg accurate, in spite of taking the time to find a link to it. Is your point to inform, educate, enlighten, discuss, or just to revile someone for being successful?
It's a snide and pointless criticism and it's embarassing that this kind of thing gets upvoted so often here.
In reality, I believe that Frind probably works at least as much as any of us, otherwise I doubt his startup would be successful at all. However, at some point he realized that he could garner a lot of free press by pretending to be lazy.
My point was to revile someone who consciously puts out the image that running a startup involves just being lazy and cashing checks. I think it continues to perpetuate a very false but popular view of what startup life is like. People here at HN upvote this because they know that running a startup involves hard work and meager rewards.
at some point he realized that he could garner a lot of free press by pretending to be lazy.
See, this is your opinion, not fact. If you have facts, please cite them. Otherwise you're just smearing, as I said.
being lazy
Working less is not laziness when there is less work to be done. If Frind (or anyone) feels like they're meeting their goals in a certain amount of working time, how are they being lazy? What is being slacked-off on? Should they invent some new work to do just to meet some arbitrary time devotion quota? Nonsense.
I think it continues to perpetuate a very false but popular view of what startup life is like.
Frind himself has written about how he worked his ass off in the beginning. But 2009 is not the beginning. PlentyOfFish has been around since 2003. Are we still calling that a startup? I think it would be insane to perpetuate the notion that "startup life" should be something you maintain over six years, even after your company becomes wildly successful.
People here at HN upvote this because they know that running a startup involves hard work and meager rewards.
I sincrely wish I could believe people here were that conscious of the rationale behind their voting.
http://www.inc.com/magazine/20090101/and-the-money-comes-rol...