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throwaway1182
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Comment #14233148
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…
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Comment #14233119
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 lo…
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Comment #12372385
> 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 provi…
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Comment #12371812
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 a…
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Comment #12198883
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 pr…
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Comment #12198718
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…
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Comment #12198364
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 si…