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Everyone uses buzzwords and I don't have a problem with them charging $599. If it is too high, I'm sure the market will tell them. I agree that they're using th

by credo 13y ago

Everyone uses buzzwords and I don't have a problem with them charging $599. If it is too high, I'm sure the market will tell them. I agree that they're using their Microsoft experience for added credibility but that isn't unusual either (though given pg's bias against Microsoft, I'm not sure if it will help them much :) What I find more interesting is something that you haven't mentioned. Yesterday, the same blog post was submitted (https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484234 ) followed by an email request to thousands of people asking for an upvote. That post seems to only have 9 upvotes (and pg's anti-gaming algorithm may have played a role in it) However, today, the post was re-submitted and it already has 23 points in just around an hour. So they've beaten pg's anti-duplicate-submission code (and perhaps his anti-gaming code as well)

ritwikt 13y ago
I had written the post yesterday and submitted it - now the email list is STS [Seattle tech startups] and on that we are fairly active and know personally almost all the active members [seattle has a relatively small startup community] All I said was up-vote if you like – isn’t that what we do anyways. This is an alias for fellow founders/entrepreneurs it would have been stupid to expect I would game the system there using these people -- we genuinely felt we had put in some thought behind the post ... On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Ritwik Tewari <ritwikt@gmail.com> wrote: Given we are in the season of accelerator applications & that there is a perceived disadvantage to Seattle entrepreneurs like us coming from big cos. I thought some of you might find our story helpful. The post is @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484234 – In case you happen to like it please up-vote or re-tweet. [If HN has issues try https://medium.com/p/d639607056f6 https://medium.com/p/d639607056f6] Techstars shares similar attributes hence much of the reasoning applies there too & yes it is amongst the other two I mention in my post.  … Today a friend re-posted the link from my Facebook feed https://www.facebook.com/ritwik.tewari/posts/10152282986459140?notif_t=like https://www.facebook.com/ritwik.tewari/posts/101522829864591... this was a place I could have asked for free upvotes -- please see that I really did not Think of us in some positive light and you might find us with a different take - not one that you may like but different none the less :)

by credo 13y ago

ritwikt 13y ago

I had written the post yesterday and submitted it - now the email list is STS [Seattle tech startups] and on that we are fairly active and know personally almost all the active members [seattle has a relatively small startup community] All I said was up-vote if you like – isn’t that what we do anyways. This is an alias for fellow founders/entrepreneurs it would have been stupid to expect I would game the system there using these people -- we genuinely felt we had put in some thought behind the post ... On Thu, Mar 27, 2014 at 8:19 PM, Ritwik Tewari <ritwikt@gmail.com> wrote: Given we are in the season of accelerator applications & that there is a perceived disadvantage to Seattle entrepreneurs like us coming from big cos. I thought some of you might find our story helpful. The post is @ https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484234 https://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=7484234 – In case you happen to like it please up-vote or re-tweet. [If HN has issues try https://medium.com/p/d639607056f6 https://medium.com/p/d639607056f6] Techstars shares similar attributes hence much of the reasoning applies there too & yes it is amongst the other two I mention in my post.  … Today a friend re-posted the link from my Facebook feed https://www.facebook.com/ritwik.tewari/posts/10152282986459140?notif_t=like https://www.facebook.com/ritwik.tewari/posts/101522829864591... this was a place I could have asked for free upvotes -- please see that I really did not Think of us in some positive light and you might find us with a different take - not one that you may like but different none the less :)