throwaway1182

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by throwaway1182 9y ago
Erm, nope. Unfortunately, I downloaded the iOS app before Apple finally stopped their annoying "growth hack" by introducing a permission for accessing the contact list. To this day, I still have ex-girlfriends, one-time ridesharin
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by throwaway1182 9y ago
Can relate, I failed at the game of academia as well. In the end, on LinkedIn I gave up and ended up just putting in my college, but without listing a degree. Funnily enough, it looks pretty much like I finished to the uninitiated outsider.
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by throwaway1182 10y ago
> Was it everyone agreeing to follow the "main founders" vision, and him being respectful and not ego driven (so that the vision became shared?) Pretty much exactly that plus providing the seed round. In practice, this also def
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by throwaway1182 10y ago
Interesting data point. However, we're happily chugging along with 6 co-founders, bootstrapped to currently 30 mln us$ valuation and we've only just begun. Then again, your point about "visionaries" (with which you proba
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by throwaway1182 10y ago
Can't disclose for obvious reasons, but the potential isn't that hard to understand actually. Still, the first big unexpected hurdle was that VCs were totally "blinded" by their previous expertise. They tried to apply nu
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by throwaway1182 10y ago
Sure. Although we have a rather nonstandard business area (not the usual ecommerce/saas/social/gaming stuff) and have no direct competitors, we could get a good grip at it by going down several routes: talking to industry exp
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by throwaway1182 10y ago
Spot on. We're at a 8 digit dollar valuation here after just 2 years of hard work and nobody knows yet - as we don't hang out on shiny conferences or court "prestigious" VCs but simply put the pedal to the metal from day