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Even when you think the other person is a techie, I've seen it generally helps to assume that he is not, to avoid this Curse of knowledge. Also at least in my

Even when you think the other person is a techie, I've seen it generally helps to assume that he is not, to avoid this Curse of knowledge. Also at least in my domain, I've found analogies are a great way to explain super complicated things very easily. Old world physical analogies work great (like a bank, wallmart, etc) but analogies using other startups, i.e. we're the Uber of X, or we're the blablacar for Y not so much. Because sometimes the other person may not know what blablacar is (or for that matter Uber).

IIAOPSW 9y ago
wait is blablacar a thing or did you just make it up? I'm out of the loop and legit can't tell.
- ainar-g 9y ago
  https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlaBlaCar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlaBlaCar
  - nradov 9y ago
    They have 600 employees for a ride sharing app! What are all those people doing?
    - kuschku 9y ago
      Wait until you hear of Uber. That ride sharing and taxi app has 12'000 employees.
- pathsjs 9y ago
  It is a thing, and here where I live (Italy) is pretty popular - I would say more than Uber, for what it's worth. It is a service to arrange long trips from one city to another with other people, so that the driver can share the ride and get compensated from passengers (and also have company) in return
  - paganel 9y ago
    It's also pretty popular in Romania. I have two close- and non-techie friends who have used its services.
- cbcoutinho 9y ago
  When I lived in the states I used to post rideshare availability on Craigslist to share gas and company on long road trips. Now that I live in Europe, I've learned of this new company that is trying to monetize that concept.
  - kaybe 9y ago
    It was different before, there was a free site that got rolled over into this company. The main issue drivers were complaining about with the free version was no shows (=no money) which the company version tries to fix by taking money beforehand. It's a fickle market though since every journey is independent ( so it's not hard to move platform) people are very price-conscious (many students etc) and the social features are not popular.
- skrebbel 9y ago
  You have to give it to them, it's the best company name ever.

IIAOPSW 9y ago

wait is blablacar a thing or did you just make it up? I'm out of the loop and legit can't tell.

ainar-g 9y ago
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlaBlaCar https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/BlaBlaCar
- nradov 9y ago
  They have 600 employees for a ride sharing app! What are all those people doing?
  - kuschku 9y ago
    Wait until you hear of Uber. That ride sharing and taxi app has 12'000 employees.
pathsjs 9y ago
It is a thing, and here where I live (Italy) is pretty popular - I would say more than Uber, for what it's worth. It is a service to arrange long trips from one city to another with other people, so that the driver can share the ride and get compensated from passengers (and also have company) in return
- paganel 9y ago
  It's also pretty popular in Romania. I have two close- and non-techie friends who have used its services.
cbcoutinho 9y ago
When I lived in the states I used to post rideshare availability on Craigslist to share gas and company on long road trips. Now that I live in Europe, I've learned of this new company that is trying to monetize that concept.
- kaybe 9y ago
  It was different before, there was a free site that got rolled over into this company. The main issue drivers were complaining about with the free version was no shows (=no money) which the company version tries to fix by taking money beforehand. It's a fickle market though since every journey is independent ( so it's not hard to move platform) people are very price-conscious (many students etc) and the social features are not popular.
skrebbel 9y ago
You have to give it to them, it's the best company name ever.