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Launch it like Google
- swombat 16y agoUninformed. Paypal did not launch in obscurity - see Max Levchin's account in Founders At Work.
- trustfundbaby 16y agoYou should elaborate, so that we don't have to read a whole book just to disagree with you :D
- swombat 16y agoPayPal had a big demo day where they invited the press to demonstrate their cool new technology: PDA-to-PDA money transfer. They made a big case of the fact that their investment was transferred using PayPal's technology. Then, later, they found out that people found the web-based money transfers a lot more interesting than the PDA stuff. But they had their big launch day - before their product was even really completely conceived.
- wslh 16y agoYou're citing one case... probably more. But I am confident that the rate between obscurity/biglaunch is high.