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Red Herring awards (scam) started major campaign today soliciting startups
Warning: Red Herring awards (total scam) are trolling SF/Valley startups to submit to their bogus awards. I know of at least 4 top startups who got the pitch today. (see this thread for context http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=4538950 )
The only way to stop these guys is for no one to submit for their pay-for-play BS awards.
- dmor 14y agoThis is a really annoying scam, and sadly I have had several companies coming to me asking if we'd ever done their event at Twilio (we never did) and if it was a good idea. Stuff like this can be a huge time suck for founders, and if they don't find out it isn't legit then it can be a big money drain as well. Does anyone know what people behind Red Herring? I have wanted to know for some time, so I can avoid anything else they are doing.
- _delirium 14y agoAs far as I can tell, the brand of the old Red Herring magazine was bought by a company called DASAR, which appears to be owned/run by this guy: http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1972998,00.html http://www.time.com/time/magazine/article/0,9171,1972998,00....