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Mint CEO on how to build a startup
- wyday 18y agoThat was a nice set of slides, but was there a video (or audio) to go along with it?
- ed 18y ago(throws voice) ooo, is that a new slideshow mode?
- pclark 18y agothe "unlike this" "like this" button toggle is exceptionally confusing. Why do you put a really dark gradient through all your buttons, rendering the bottom line of text very hard to read?
- aditya 18y agoInteresting recommendation to hire a PR firm. I guess if you have $17M in cash and an audience that still pays attention to traditional PR, that's a justifiable expense...
- pxlpshr 18y agoA good PR firm works to maintain a very personal and trusting relationship with major news outlets, including the popular blogs and web presences. While there are a lot of bad PR firms out there you should avoid, a good firm is extremely valuable and should be included in your marketing strategy once the product has shown life. However, most likely your first year (or two) you'll be able to handle a fair amount of the basic PR work yourself. Here's a good blog post from Josh Dilworth who works with a lot of tech startups. http://joshdilworth.com/post/68998214/what-the-heck-is-pr-anyway http://joshdilworth.com/post/68998214/what-the-heck-is-pr-an...
- alain94040 18y agoWe just had a discussion on PR firms that pretty much settles it in my opinion (http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462493 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=462493). How can I include it in this thread? Hyperlinks are just not as efficient as some cute Ajax inlining...
- sireat 18y agoYou don't need 17M in cash to use a PR firm. If you haven't read it yet: http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html http://www.paulgraham.com/submarine.html Question remains how does one find a good PR firm, these days a bad(read overzealous) PR firm could do a quite a bit of damage.
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- sobriquet 18y agoAaron's speaking on a panel next week, "Tales of Young Entrepeneurs" at Stanford. Anyone going? http://www.vlab.org/article.html?aid=253 http://www.vlab.org/article.html?aid=253
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- betterlabs 18y agoThanks for sharing - I might go. Sounds interesting.
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- jmtame 18y agothe video is really good. did he say landlords in silicon valley will accept equity for rent price reductions? where does this happen?
- thomaspaine 18y agoThe landlord of my old apartment in Palo Alto told me that some previous tenants had tried to pay their month's rent in equity, because they were broke. He turned them down and the company turned out to be very successful. I'm pretty sure he said it was one of the PayPal founders, but I don't remember.
- bettyfly 18y agoalmost sounds like an urban myth
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