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We all know that most successful startups got started by "spamming". Not everyone is a Google. For eg. Facebook spammed the Harvard mailing list. Youtube spammed Craiglist for hot girls to post on their site. Tagged got big fast by "spamming" too. See http://www.istokpavlovic.com/blog/?p=5 I'm sure many of plaxo's competitors would love to be in their shoes when everyone start cursing them. At least it's better than…
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I think you really need to make a distinction between targeted announcements to relevant mailing lists and "spam", defined as unsolicited commercial e-mail. Most successful startups don't spam. They identify a few mass-mailing forums and post to them. Linus Torvalds announced the original Linux kernel to comp.os.minix. Tim Berners-Lee posted the original WWW announcement to alt.hypertext. I believe Netscape was annou…
In that case, how often can you post about your site in the targeted mailing list?
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In that case, how often can you post about your site in the targeted mailing list?
Teenwag is a hot growing social networking site that is not funded by YC, so can you support non-YC funded companies or is News YC just a YC Funded pimp