My name is Dmitri Sarle and I wanted to thank the Hacker News community for helping us save ArcticStarup.
Few years back, it was announced on HN that we are shutting down. Yet, thanks to the visibility (we were the top post for the day), we received hundreds of e-mails of support and eventually kept it alive.
After three hard years - we are a team of thirteen people (in the article it says 12, but I just sent a contract to the thirteenth), growing fast and finding new opportunities.
My first thought when Tarmo came up to us too. But after a while, I realized many things which are very neat about print.
Just the freedom of not caring about traffic for example. That means that traffic does not affect your content at all. No click-bait stories, no content that tries to force users to go somewhere. Just pure journalism.
Thanks so much for the link! The whole day I was trying to remember this book because it was also this exact book that helped me get interested in computing!
Good point about the title. But to answer your question, as far as I know Ukko told me that they want to expand quickly to the US and also countries such as Russia from the Eastern side.
Having visited the offices a few times and met the team, it's definitely not a myth. The cell structure is there and in action. Whether it is a "secret sauce" to success remains to be seen in the long run (Say 5-10 years at least).
That being said, the team is amazing and they definitely seem to know what they are doing. Besides, similar company structures already exist in other successful companies, in the gaming industry the best that comes to mind is that of Valve corporation.
Not a cell structure per say, but very similar work and leadership attitude.
Yeah, good point. The other thought that we had was to help the audience connect through some form of matchmaking. The e-commerce angle was also evaluated, to create a market for start-ups to promote and sell their products. This could also include a market for discounted startup event tickets and offers.
We have some other thoughts as well, but need to value and compare all the currently available options.
My name is Dmitri Sarle and I wanted to thank the Hacker News community for helping us save ArcticStarup.
Few years back, it was announced on HN that we are shutting down. Yet, thanks to the visibility (we were the top post for the day), we received hundreds of e-mails of support and eventually kept it alive.
After three hard years - we are a team of thirteen people (in the article it says 12, but I just sent a contract to the thirteenth), growing fast and finding new opportunities.
Thanks a lot. Feel free to ask me anything.