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The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
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Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#122I don't understand people ridiculing him. This funding is for entrepreneurs and business projects with a particular profile. A project like Pinboard.
When Y combinator started the amount of money was also ridicule.
What you get with his funding is visibility and this is rapidly growing in value because everybody will now look with high curiosity what are the 6 selected projects.
It looks like he is attempting to undercut Y combinator and might succeed. Look how he targets a niche market that is discarded by Y combinator : single founder projet. He applies all the advises given by PG himself.
I'm looking forward to see how he will execute, but this is already a very good start.
If I had a close to finished project and no traction because of no visibility I would apply. Because the visibility will be much bigger than with an article in techcruch.
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#123This is wrong for a variety of reasons. First, you should never accept angel investment from non-accredited investors (i.e., individuals with a net worth of at least one million cents). Second, the real value of the investors is their network. In this case, Maciej Cegłowski's network is a collection of links featured in an indexed, polished, simple-to-use product. Why accept money from him when his network is already…
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Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#124I don't understand all this angel investment speak but the thing I am curios the most is simple.
I apply I make it "big"
Does pin board owns any of my company because they invested $37 a month and provided exposure?
I really don't understand who doesn't have $37 a month to be self-funded but I'm interested on exposure.
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#125I would like to take this moment to announce PICPC-VC, which is an automatic follow-on investment, structured as uncapped convertible notes, of $50 available to any founder accepted into the PICPC program.
Andreessen Horowitz will match your $50 with another $50.
Yuri Milner will match with his usual $150K... because that how they print them US money in Russia
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#126It does seem like cost are negligible today, but on deeper analysis theres a lot of costs beyond simply hosting. Just from memory for my startup (Authy.com), initial costs were: Domain: $1000+ Design: $3000 Video: $3000 Hosting: $400 Depending on your skills this initial costs will vary. An although I agree you don't need external investment to cover them, you should at least plan to invest $10,000US to cover your in…
I agree that getting things done "properly" still costs money. But every single item on your list can be done for at least one order of magnitude less in the MVP stage. * Domain: $9 * Design: $50 (Themeforest) * Video: $5 (Fiverr) * Hosting: $0 (Pick your choice) I've been thinking semi-seriously about this & I came to the conclusion that with $37 you can actually get a LOT done.
Design 0 ( use bootstrap)
Video 0 ( who needs video to get started?)
Seriously, why over complicate things?
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#127It does seem like cost are negligible today, but on deeper analysis theres a lot of costs beyond simply hosting. Just from memory for my startup (Authy.com), initial costs were: Domain: $1000+ Design: $3000 Video: $3000 Hosting: $400 Depending on your skills this initial costs will vary. An although I agree you don't need external investment to cover them, you should at least plan to invest $10,000US to cover your in…
Your logo is very SquareSpace-ish.
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#128If you get rejected, shoot us an email pinboard@funnelpanel.com for a forever free funnel analytics platform.
I will apply twice and get one rejected on purpose. Funnel for free FTW!
Re: The Pinboard Investment Co-Prosperity Cloud
#129I would like to take this moment to announce PICPC-VC, which is an automatic follow-on investment, structured as uncapped convertible notes, of $50 available to any founder accepted into the PICPC program.
I would like to take this moment to announce PICPC-VC-2, which is an automatic follow-on investment, structured as uncapped convertible notes, of $500 available to any founder accepted into the PICPC-VC program.
At this point I'm out.
This much money, I mean... what would I do with it. I think I can build a sustainable business but I fear at this point that the sums involved are forcing me to give up too much control and to grow faster than will be sustainable. I have legitimate concerns that this will ultimately be bad for the company and that it's helping to fuel a salary bubble.