Alan Schaaf Quotes

Crowdfunding as an idea itself isn't new - bands have been doing it since the dawn of time.

Search engine marketing and search engine optimization are critically important to online businesses. You can spend every penny you have on a website, but it will all be for nothing if nobody knows your site is there.

Founded in August 2003, MySpace would go on to be the most-visited social networking site in the world from 2005 until early 2008.

The Social Wishlist on Facebook is a great example of everything right about social media.

I believe Facebook is going all the way. They're going to reach a billion members and will be the biggest company in the world. It will be a platform everyone goes on the Internet through.

Myspace alone has just over 80 million users and ranks as the sixth most popular English language website and the eighth most popular site in the world.

We want to open digg up to just about anyone and everyone that wants to express their interest in any type of news story or Web content.

My dream was to set up my own e-commerce company. In 1999, I gathered 18 people in my apartment and spoke to them for two hours about my vision. Everyone put their money on the table, and that got us $60,000 to start Alibaba. I wanted to have a global company, so I chose a global name.

Kickstarter isn't a profit center, it's an organizer and an instigator.

One of the things we urge Y-Combinator companies to do is to have profitability in grasp. If you need to get profitable before your A round of money, you ought to be able to do that.

4chan gets almost one million posts per day, hundreds of thousands of which are images.

When I set up my Web site, I made a guestbook so kids can write to me there, and that's become one of the most popular parts of the site.

While some debate its helpfulness at generating monetizable traffic, when Digg points to a story, huge audience spikes quickly follow.

Craigslist is not only gigantic in scale and totally resistant to business cooperation, it is also mostly free.

Reddit strives to be a community-oriented link-sharing and news site, which means that all our content is submitted and voted on by members of our community. We don't interfere with that process at all, either in an editorial or curation capacity.

Whackobird

The myth of the peachfuzz billionaire has emerged. This new Horatio Alger typically launches his first start-up in middle school, and somewhere between the campus computer-science lab and a move to Palo Alto hacks up a Web site where users provide fun or useful content.

I am consistently impressed by reddit. I'd say on a near weekly basis, by little things. Whether it's - I absolutely love seeing the Photoshop jobs that people do. Not of silly cats, but of redditors who are like, 'I have this photo of like my mom. This is the last photo I took with her. She was in the hospital. Can any of you clean this photo up?'

When you think of a Vine video, it's like thinking about an experience you've had, which people can relate to.

Reddit has attracted a lefty, libertarian audience since the beginning.

We want to be like a YouTube for viral images.

TikTok is the app that Vine should have been.

Wikipedia is the #5 site on the Web and serves 450 million different people every month - with billions of page views.

Whatever we get from the government or other people - even one rupee we get, we give it to the poor. Completely free service.

The number of people who have either gotten married or had kids or started dating or just made great friends over Instagram is countless. I think we're the only platform that continues to be successful in bringing people together in real life for these real relationships.