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Coincidentally, I was just reading this rather insightful essay on press releases http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html ye
by wamatt 14y ago
Coincidentally, I was just reading this rather insightful essay on press releases
http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://paulgraham.com/submarine.html yesterday, and remember a line that stood out:
>'why he's writing about this subject at all.'
Makes one wonder what PG today, would say in response to PG (2005) :p
- timpeterson 14y ago@wamatt, agree regardless of the "why" PG's email feels petty, YCombinator and its way too many startups are jumping the shark
- SkyMarshal 14y agoWith their business model, the more startups the more likely they are to get a homeruns and base hits, as long as they can maintain a minimum standard that's strongly correlated to outcome (which PG seems to have figured out). It's an odds and numbers game.
- timpeterson 14y agoYC is billed like the yankees, but singles more likely, how did the Seattle Mariners do with Ichiro all these years?
- rapind 14y agoYou started me of on a trail that ended up here (so far): http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/business/venture-capital-firms-once-discreet-learn-the-promotional-game.html?pagewanted=all&_moc.semityn.www http://www.nytimes.com/2012/07/23/business/venture-capital-f... Pretty interesting stuff, possibly even inspiring some ideas.