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I imagine their compete.com graph will look like scribd's after they kill their live sports traffic

• paul9290 17y ago
  Ways to gain traction in the consumer market... 1. Use copyrighted content that is highly sought after. 2. Buy traffic, make it look like ur site is exploding 3. With suspect growth sign partnerships w/copyright Worked well for youtube though don't think they had to buy traffic 1 and 3 worked really well for them. Note: not trying to be negative here, just reviewing/studying the rise of various start-ups. How they got to be successful!
  • startingup 17y ago
    Exactly the same way I have felt about both Scribd and Justin.tv. Here is another "algorithm" to gain traction, last seen at Ning: 1) allow adult content - in their case adult oriented social networks 2) gain traction, 3) jettison the adult content to clean up your image. At least this second algorithm has no legal issues, but third party copyrighted content, I have serious legal/ethical issues with. I have never understood why Y Combinator never saw that as a problem.
    • paul9290 17y ago
      Because it worked for Youtube and some others and it's the way to success and a sale. Just following what others have done - thank god for the DMCA!
  • emmett 17y ago
    Why do you think Justin.tv is buying traffic? It's patently false, so I'm curious where you'd get the impression from.
    • paul9290 17y ago
      Sorry emmett I was not saying #2 applied to Justin.tv
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