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Seeing how this is Ycombinator, I should have expected this to be about a start up; however, I can't help but feel I was slightly mislead by the title. Why was
by iopuy 14y ago
Seeing how this is Ycombinator, I should have expected this to be about a start up; however, I can't help but feel I was slightly mislead by the title.
Why was there no electricity? What about the crimes? Those sound darn interesting and I'm willing to wager that's the reason most people clicked on the link.
- tomasien 14y agoI'm sorry if you feel misled: that story is, in and of itself, pretty damn interesting. It may seem short sighted and even a little crazy, but when I think about all that stuff, I really do think about it in the context of "what did it mean for me as a founder" as much as "what did it tell me about life".
- iopuy 14y agoFair enough, point taken. :-)
- dkersten 14y agoWhy was there no electricity? What about the crimes? Those sound darn interesting I, too, would like to hear about this stuff!
- Retric 14y agoUmm, did we read the same thing? It said in the robbery... his roommate was shot leading to blood on the walls and his apartment becoming a crime scene. no electricity or heat was from having no money.
- tomasien 14y agoretric is largely right. I tried not to just write the sob story and get to the lesson, but maybe I should have included more details. I'll write that whole story out one day, but honestly that would be a book and would take a better writer than me to tell it. The depths of everything that happened in October 2011 to The City Swig guys are just. They are fucking shocking. It was quite a time.
- asciimo 14y agoYeah, I feel let down. There are plenty of stories on HN about struggling start-ups. I hoped that this one--featuring a crime scene!--would be more interesting. But it's just another "keep your chin up" tale despite its potential.