b2rock

14 years agodiscuss

wouldn't that be nice.

14 years agodiscuss

Are there any best practices for launch day email announcements? Good ways to build a list, or take advantage of one you already have?

b2rock

14 years agodiscuss

When looking at it from a start up point of view...isn't is possible to emulate most (all?) of the lessons you learn from grad school in the start up environment?

b2rock

14 years agodiscuss

I was actually thinking the other day. What would happen if Instagram applied for YC ? (May be they even did :)) Some of the characteristics don't look so good. Shall we see….

- A single founder…at least to begin with (they had a 80/20 split because Kevin apparently committed earlier) http://articles.latimes.com/2012/apr/11/business/la-fi-insta... - A non-technical founder: http://thenextweb.com/2012/04/10/instagrams-ceo-had-no-forma... - And the idea is for an app to share pictures in 2010. Even Facebook and Twitter had a really good mobile app by then.

I say their chances did not look very good. That said, they probably would have benefited much from being in YC.

b2rock

14 years agodiscuss

Oh, but the things you can do without a monitor, a mouse and keyboard :)

b2rock

14 years agodiscuss

It is always a fine line. It will be interesting and telling in how Kickstarter will respond to this. You remember the Air BnB set of events...

b2rock

14 years agodiscuss

Some bigger schools now teach with their own set of materials that the professors put together. I think it might be precisely because of this reason.

b2rock

14 years agodiscuss

Here is a new standard. If the Instagram people asked the same questions, would they have a billion dollar company today?

b2rock

14 years agodiscuss

It sounds promising, but it is hard to see how this would be useful on something that is anything above basic.

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