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Well done to Rahul, Martin and Sam! Really interesting details around the timings of launching a demo, getting funded, and seeing competitors (even within YC)
by jedc 16y ago
Well done to Rahul, Martin and Sam! Really interesting details around the timings of launching a demo, getting funded, and seeing competitors (even within YC) pivot.
I love these lines in particular:
"But rather than write him fan mail, they used their own product as bait, portraying McClure as the example user of their original web site. “We plastered his face all over, and then people kept asking him, ‘These Rapportive guys, are they your company?’” After McClure got that question more than once, he was intrigued enough to follow up and commit to investing, and then made copious intros for the rest of the round."
- nzmsv 16y agoThis is an interesting hack. I think most of us hold an implicit assumption that privacy is always good. So many hackers would never even consider doing something like that. I probably wouldn't. But this outcome shows that it pays to question assumptions, even (especially) your own.