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0 pointsavitzurel10y ago0 comments

"Blogging 140 characters at a time" was considered a stupid idea.

I struggle with this all the time

I try to put myself in the shoes of VCs hearing AirBNB, Uber, Twitter and other pitches. I'm pretty sure I wouldn't give them money. (and then, I would post on HN saying "How I missed AirBNB. Including email threads with the founders and beating myself up).

This is indeed the premise of VCs but even with that in mind, some startups being funded are just ridiculous.

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Avshalom10y ago

It's worth remembering that at the time it wasn't "blogging 140 characters at a time" it was "SMS blogging" which is a much easier idea to pitch in that the use case is more obvious (being on the go) and the character limit isn't arbitrary.

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0 pointsavitzurel10y ago0 comments

"Blogging 140 characters at a time" was considered a stupid idea.

I struggle with this all the time

This is indeed the premise of VCs but even with that in mind, some startups being funded are just ridiculous.

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Avshalom10y ago

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