Erica Joy
erica.biz · Personal blog · on HN since 2010
Erica Joy, a founder who sold her first tech company, writes about startups, pricing, failure, and Silicon Valley.
What HN saysHN commenters cite it for pricing strategy advice and as an example of a blog earning income from ads and affiliate commissions.
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Most-shared posts
- 1Sounding the Alarm: Now Is the Time to Be a Cockroach2 people · 188 points · first shared 2018 · 135 comments on HN
- 2Why I Feel Like A Failure, Even Though On the Outside, I'm A Success2 people · 14 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
- 3How to Price Your Product or Service-To Avoid Killing Your Business2 people · 11 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 4Dear California: I'm leaving you. Here's why...2 people · 9 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 5When The Sh*t Hits the Fan With Your Startup2 people · 7 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 6Need an idea for your business?2 people · 2 points · first shared 2013 · discussion on HN
- 7My Experience at YC Hacks1 people · 132 points · first shared 2014 · 16 comments on HN
- 8Silicon Valley is Broken. Should We Even Bother to Fix It?1 people · 85 points · first shared 2011 · 44 comments on HN
- 9Dear Investors, My Company Failed and We Lost All Your Money.1 people · 22 points · first shared 2014 · 13 comments on HN
- 10Tips on Hiring Employees1 people · 17 points · first shared 2010 · 13 comments on HN
- 11Why You Should Talk To Investors (Even If You’re Not Raising Money)1 people · 13 points · first shared 2012 · 7 comments on HN
- 12Turn Off the Noise and Start Creating (An Entrepreneur's Manifesto)1 people · 11 points · first shared 2011 · 1 comments on HN
- 13Can You Build A Successful Company "Outside the Bubble"?1 people · 10 points · first shared 2012 · 1 comments on HN
- 14“Hustle Porn” Is Making Us Sad and Suicidal1 people · 7 points · first shared 2018 · discussion on HN
- 15The Nastiest Habit - Comparing Ourselves to Others1 people · 5 points · first shared 2012 · discussion on HN
What HN people wrote when they linked it
ericabiz · 2013-12-10
My blog at http://erica.biz makes more than $1,000/mo in advertising and affiliate commissions.
I built the blog after I bootstrapped and sold my first tech company. I talk a lot about growing your business/startup, and especially about all the failures I had while building my businesses. It became popular (1.2 million unique visitors last year alone.)
I've now been blogging there for just over 6 years. Today I'm more focused on my startup, so my blog isn't bringing in as much income as it used to (though it's still over $1,000/mo.) My best month was over $24,000 in income.
chermanowicz · 2012-08-14
Someone shared a couple links on this topic before but I didn't see them here
http://www.erica.biz/2012/pricing-strategies/
http://conversionxl.com/pricing-experiments-you-might-not-know-but-can…
kyledrake · 2018-07-22
> Part of being an adult is owning a home and gaining all the advantages, both financial and psychological, that home ownership offers.
Becoming intensely in debt (thereby forcing myself to work more) by buying into a ridiculously overpriced housing market, locking me to a single physical location that is destroying itself through disgustingly selfish infrastructure planning is not my idea of an advantage, financially or psychologically. I've never lived or visited anywhere in my life that has screwed itself up as much as the Bay Area has - they'll be lucky to be growing as well as Gary, Indiana at the rate things are going. The prices are not justified by wage increases (wages aren't matching price increases) or increasing population (the bay area is now starting to lose population), and combined with the idiotic local and federal politics + trade war economics, have nowhere to go but down.
On the contrary, I contend anyone that depends on the current prices for survival is a bag holder making an extremely risky bet. The evidence is already there that the bet is not going to pay off. My advice: unless you're very wealthy and don't care, or your plan is to go underwater in the world's most expensive retirement community, get out, now. If things go south, liquidity will be far more important for your financial and psychological soundness than debt on a sinking asset in a shrinking regional economy will be.
http://www.erica.biz/2018/cockroach/