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> If we're going to impress people it's going to be with what we say, not with our cards. Good design is important, especially for a website. If your business
by wanorris 18y ago
> If we're going to impress people it's going to be with what we say, not with our cards.
Good design is important, especially for a website. If your business card is ugly, what is your site going to look like?
But exotic materials or obviously expensive printing techniques don't signal frugal, which ought to be an important quality in a startup founder.
- wheels 18y agoThe business cards that I ordered are all just text, black on white, in Times. On the left in bigger print is our name and slogan, on the right is my name, title, email address, phone number and our website. I'd love to have something well designed, but if you stay minimal, you can usually avoid being overtly ugly. Clean design is important, but impressing people with our design skills is less core for us than most news.YC readers since we're providing tools to integrate to other sites (at the data-level) rather than user-accessible components. We just need to look professional, not so much exciting. Plus I think that having a design that makes a notable impression is possible, but to get above the run-of-the-mill nice looking cards, you're going to pay. That's fine if you're Guy Kawasaki. For us, I'm just hoping that the people that would remember me anyway remember me plus have my email address. I couldn't tell you what any of the cards that I collected at my last outing looked like. I copied them into my address book at home, synched to my phone, connected to the folks on LinkedIn / Xing, and threw them in the recycling bin. :-)