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They've got a terrible, terrible product. Not sure they would have received anything from a Silicon Valley VC.

• jacquesm 5y ago
  That's not how it works. In SV they would have received 10fold the funding that they received in Europe. As a result, most likely they would have had a better product.
  • tormeh 5y ago
    Not so sure. Why compete with Google by trying to do exactly the same thing, but worse? It's a shitty business plan. Might even be too shit for SV.
    • raverbashing 5y ago
      > trying to do exactly the same thing, but worse You mean launching Google when we have Altavista? Launching FB when we have LiveJournal? (I mean at founding/initial version level, of course they became better than their competition, but that took time) The sad part about this is that $8Mi is peanuts.
      • kmlx 5y ago
        > You mean launching Google when we have Altavista? google was miles ahead of altavista. > Launching FB when we have LiveJournal FB was miles ahead of LiveJournal. —- a trend appears…
        • raverbashing 5y ago
          Not at their beginning they weren't. Google wasn't better than AV after their first investment. FB wasn't even public at first, but School/University only.
          • dantheman 5y ago
            They had different ideas / approaches.
• sekh60 5y ago
  Even Juicero raised money.