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Justin.TV seems to have a very interesting startup model. An apparently trivial "outer" application which needs a good deal of innovation "under the covers" to
by plinkplonk 19y ago
Justin.TV seems to have a very interesting startup model. An apparently trivial "outer" application which needs a good deal of innovation "under the covers" to pull off, which is where the real competitive edge comes from. Pulls in a different direction from how most people parse "build what users want".
I wonder how they pitched it to YC (and other investors).
- cstejerean 19y agothey didn't pitch it to yc. IIRC their initial project was a web calendar that died when google did theirs. I think most of the current stuff they figured out when Justin did his initial stunt and it just picked up from there.
- vlad 19y ago>> I wonder how they pitched it to YC (and other investors). AFAIK, Justin and a friend took part in the first YC session with a web calendar called Kiko, which they sold on eBay for 5 or 6 figures to a media company after Google came out with theirs. They started working on Justin.tv to have a product in a market which didn't exist at the time, mobile streaming video, to have a better chance of survival. I believe Justin et al have been working on Justin.tv even before Google purchased YouTube, and are funded by investors closely linked to YCombinator who enjoyed his YCombinator calendar startup.