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My hunch is the answer is: "it depends". How do you measure the growth of your site? Is it based on page views, subscribed paying customers, registered customers, ad clicks? I know the obvious question may be revenue growth, but what about before the revenue starts to roll in? What metric is the most important for a certain situation?

I'd love to hear a whole spectrum of thoughts.

In a previous post and many similar posts, the community has talked about the characteristics of an entrepreneur. What about people skills? Let's be honest - hackers aren't known for having great people skills either.

This also reminds me of a chapter in Founders at Work. One interview highlighted changing the culture of hackers to be more professional, but this interviewee gave up that idea.

Thoughts? Anecdotes? How do hackers and co-founders develop people skills?