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Ouch. If fnid2 is mistaken isn't it more likely because he has much less information about these startups and their founders than you or the attendees of demo d
by zhyder 17y ago
Ouch. If fnid2 is mistaken isn't it more likely because he has much less information about these startups and their founders than you or the attendees of demo day?
- pg 17y agoIt's certainly true that he knows nothing about most of these companies beyond a brief text description. But that is precisely the situation where someone who understood early stage startups would know to reserve judgment.
- ErrantX 17y agoI think the "problem" is compared to some of the quality ideas in the past (dropbox, reddit etc.) a lot of this round seems a bit trivial. I'm pretty sure a couple of them, too, will bottom out quite quickly because they either don't appear to fit their market or understand it. fnid2 is being silly in latter posts though; interestingly he trivialized/picked holes in the ones I think might do ok and sort of passed over the ones I think have major flaws.
- brlewis 17y agoPeople forget that reddit was widely viewed as a trivial digg clone in its early days. Dropbox also seemed trivial to some early on: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=9224