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Borderline unethical.

• sokoloff 8y ago
  > At YC we use the term "Collison installation" for the technique they invented. More diffident founders ask "Will you try our beta?" and if the answer is yes, they say "Great, we'll send you a link." But the Collison brothers weren't going to wait. When anyone agreed to try Stripe they'd say "Right then, give me your laptop" and set them up on the spot. What could possibly be unethical about that?!
• nostrademons 8y ago
  The Collison technique is that you ask people if they want to use your product, in person, and then set it up for them if they say yes. Nothing unethical about that. I'd heard that one technique another startup used was to go to all the local Apple Stores and set the home page of Safari on each computer to their website. That seems borderline unethical, but that's not what Stripe was doing, nor would it really work for their market.