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That's how I feel reading your comment. What are you trying to say?
by ivankirigin 11y ago
That's how I feel reading your comment. What are you trying to say?
- api 11y agoI just see a lot of... well... the post's title was honest and accurate. I see a lot of "scene" navel gazing the strikes me as just bizarre and defocusing. If I were in the Valley I'd worry that the "scene" would be overwhelming and distracting to the point that I'd run the risk of spending a lot of time pursuing vanity metrics and things that only matter within that scene. The long term risk here is startups building around the startup scene and therefore becoming dependent upon the startup ecosystem itself. This kind of circularity and economic incest made the dot.com crash a lot worse than it might have been and it could happen again.
- ivankirigin 11y agoYeah, the chatter is easy to suck you in. The underlying issues do matter though: where should you spend your time? what is the most effective way to market your startup? Cuban, Sacca, and PG didn't get where they are by tweeting. Sacca sort of did considering how his late stage twitter funds launched him to a new level. Inside baseball isn't baseball. Agreed.