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Alternatively, perhaps exit applied Occam's Razor and concluded that maxklein is either a fiction or a fraud, and calling him out in public seems like an apt way to expose the lie?
I'm not a fraud, a fair number of people have seen the numbers directly and know the business, I've just tried to keep the number low for now.
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I'm not a fraud, a fair number of people have seen the numbers directly and know the business, I've just tried to keep the number low for now.
Why the secrecy then? Why the vague anecdotes? To what end?
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i've asked him twice in the comment threads http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1171696 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=1344398 his blog posts are great. more over, particularly after a very xkcd-ish comic he made about starting out, i associated him with success stories like patio11 (whose recent mixergy interview really inspires me). but i just can't seem to figure out what exactly he does (whereas patio11 is i…
sounds like a mixergy interview is in order...
Why don't you just email me if you are so curious? My business model is easy to duplicate and posting something like this is not good for me, I would prefer it if you would just do this privately.
I respect your request to keep your business private. It's just that when you write post after post, comment after comment, which I enjoy often, about your startup experiences without actually touching upon what exactly it is you do, it gets rather irritating. It's like someone telling you stories about how some product has helped their lives dramatically with tips on how to use it, without actually telling you what…
Why don't you just email me if you are so curious? My business model is easy to duplicate and posting something like this is not good for me, I would prefer it if you would just do this privately.
I'm hoping for the best here - your blog posts are great. But it does seem a little suspicious that you can't talk about your business in public. I can't think of a single legit business where talking about it openly didn't benefit the business (especially once the product is launched).
It's getting late now and I want to sleep, I don't want to stay awake and be nervously watching this question all night, so just email me if you have any questions for me.
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I respect your request to keep your business private. It's just that when you write post after post, comment after comment, which I enjoy often, about your startup experiences without actually touching upon what exactly it is you do, it gets rather irritating. It's like someone telling you stories about how some product has helped their lives dramatically with tips on how to use it, without actually telling you what…
I am going to make it public, I just was waiting till august, as that's how my startup plan is constructed. Now would be premature and have no benefit, but in august I would have a clear benefit.
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sounds like a mixergy interview is in order...
What would a Mixergy interview accomplish? Max doesn't want to talk about what he makes on a forum, why would he want to do it on video?
as far as long term, he mentioned that he is using the blog for cred building, so that when he moves to stage 2 with a "real" product, he'll be able to get more coverage/buzz, and worst case scenario he'll have his own blog audience to spam.
it's like Arrington and tablets, on it's own noone cared about it, once Arrington started pushing the idea, suddenly everyone thought it was the second coming of jesus.