That being said, I always assumed that it was because it would create conversational tension, that it encouraged people to keep engaging in conversations. It seemed to work well in that regard in my experience.
I'll ping the organizer and see if there was any deep significance here or if it was just "I don't know, how about 7?" kind of thing.
The place has fancy red velvet furniture, oil portraits on the wall, and a dark feel. It's sometimes full of older women who seem to be looking for younger men. We don't fill that bill anymore, but sometimes someone younger friends can be suckered^H^H^H^H^H^H^H^Hconvinced into coming along. Good times, good times.
Decent scotch selection. Not great, but workable.
> We took our $400 travel reimbursement check from YC and
> used that as seed capital for Grouper
I once returned a book to Amazon. If I used that money to fund a startup, it'd be rather disingenuous to call that Amazon-funded. Makes for a good headline though.That aside, it sounds like a fantastic idea.
> Co-founders Jerry Guo and Michael Waxman like to joke
> that Grouper is a Y Combinator-funded startup.
They're not actually claiming to be funded by Y Combinator. Betabeat's headline didn't mention YC either.I would be okay if they don't. Privacy matters aside, it lets everyone present themselves at the meet-up as they want to, and not be judged by some small sampling of pictures or posts on their profile.
In this case, I can see how not sharing that info would make for a more exciting experience. e.g some magical algorithm paired me and my friends up with random other folks. I'd go along just to see how well it worked.
If it is a date but for whatever reason they don't want to say so (I'm guessing because of the social stigma around online dating in some circles -- check out the description of Blendr: it's exactly like Grindr but it's totally different), what about gay people?
Because when the average person wants to have fun, he or she usually is looking for a gender balanced group with attractiveness levels similar to him/her. Even a tangential experience with greek life or the party scene while in college gives you a pretty good feel for why this is the case. There's actually significant strategy and human capital that gets devoted to achieving a gender balance for your average college event.
is this really the case? I mean, it's hard enough for me to find other gay guys, but if even heterosexuals are established in a forced equal balance solely based on gender... what hope have I?
Their big problem is where they're going to find all of those girls. Only going to get close to those ratios in the Northeast around college towns.
What has happened to journalism.
... That is the ex that I don't want to see.
What exactly is this if it's not a date? Or kinda a date? Or "something that might be possibly misconstrued as a date"?
But then thinking back to the dating sites I've tried where the match was poor anyway I thought maybe I'll give it a chance.
Most dating sites don't live up to the promise of a perfect match so you might as well opt for a quick one ;<).
We applied to YC with paperbuff.com. In the 36 hours before
our interview, we ditched paperbuff and built qomments.com,
were rejected, then decided to build a product people would
actually want
I am sorry, but this is ridiculous. This is not only a waste of everyone's time in YC, but it also takes away an opportunity from other people who could have pitched in their place. There is really nothing "LOL" about it.You don't have a right to a YC interview.
http://thenextweb.com/apps/2011/09/08/just-launched-grouper-...