How A Y Combinator Startup Is Born: The Story Of Strikingly • Hacker News Board

AlexMuir wrote: post #14

This story must have the highest points : relevant comments ratio I've seen. 2 hours, 57 points and only one comment of any relevance.

Now we got two. The ratio is kaputt.

Re: How A Y Combinator Startup Is Born: The Story Of Strikingly

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Post by ronilan » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 8:35 PM UTC

jdludlow wrote: post #10

jes5199 wrote: post #2

startups with names ending in "ly"

Part of your sentence appears to be missing, but I'll fill it in for myself. The "ly" thing is beyond worn out. The odd thing in this case is that they actually chose a real word.

Part.ly missing.

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Post by dfguo » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 8:43 PM UTC

Diamons wrote: post #11

How did you get your post on Forbes?

We reached out through personal network. The writer is interested in our story.

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Post by anonfunction » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 9:35 PM UTC

Really cool behind the scenes story that you for the most part don't get to hear. Everyone's interested in your funding strategy, value prop, etc.. that they forget founders are humans just like us.

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Post by joshdance » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 10:07 PM UTC

minimaxir wrote: post #9

jes5199 wrote: post #2

startups with names ending in "ly"

Which is better than startups with names ending in ".ly"

Did the scare about Libyan internet problems fade away?

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Post by ridruejo » Tue, Mar 19, 2013, 10:25 PM UTC

The product is great, but what I think it is much more important is how the persevered after they were initially rejected. Many others would just have called it a day and gone home to a cushy job. They did not, worked hard for many months without knowing if they would be accepted the second time, and they finally succeeded.