Hope JesusChristSiliconValley has something to say about this. http://jesuschristsiliconvalley.tumblr.com/post/48962035819/...
Quora in the next YC batch
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Re: Quora in the next YC batch
#72This is very exciting. More great companies in YC = more value for the whole YC community!
Thanks for including us!
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Is there a webapp that lets us take/make bets on things like this? Not for money of course, but purely to gauge sentiment.
Or better yet, is there a webapp that lets us ask questions and post answers for others?
jelly app is kinda like that. Except with a focus on pics and maps.
Re: Quora in the next YC batch
#75I'd love to hear more about why. It makes sense for YC (and is probably being treated as a normal investment rather than "Adam filled out a YC application and did a 10 minute interview"), however I feel like it makes Quora seem weak.
Clearly makes a lot of sense for us :) I think the other companies in the batch will get a ton out of this. I'm hopeful Quora will too--as the YC community grows larger, we can help companies in lots of ways, including with things like hiring that are particularly important for later stage companies.
I'm reading this as implying that a potential benefit to Quora is using YC as a hiring filter, presumably from failed startups.
Seems like there could be some potentially misaligned incentives for YC founders there...
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I rarely initialize my use of Quora by visiting the website - I have found immense value in the digest emails they send. They are a mix of things they know I'm explicitly interested in, and generally "interesting" things (presumably defined by popularity). Probably 90% of the time after receive a digest email, I open at least 2 or 3 of the links within. I have tried visiting the site directly and am rarely able to fi…
I've never signed up to the site, but find this quite interesting. Does that mean you only consume the content via email or do you click through? Sounds like a massive headache for Quora in the first case.
Like russell_h said, the email includes just a teaser snippet so you have to click through - and I've never encountered the BWoD (Blurry Wall of Death) after clicking through.
Re: Quora in the next YC batch
#77Hard to imagine what's in it for Quora. - Network connections? Their CEO is the former CTO of Facebook. - Help with fundraising? They raised $80mm at $900mm valuation not more than a month ago. I strongly suspect Quora is planning a huge pivot which they feel is ambitious but doable in 3 months, and YC believes in the value of this pivot; that is the only plausible explanation I can think of.
Direction probably. Quora has floundered for nearly 5 years, burned millions of dollars and still has a questionable product. Meanwhile Stack Exchange has been around only a year longer, a fraction of the funding, and pretty well owns the entire question-answer niche.
Ive not used Quora, what is their struture like? SE is fairly fragemented now, is Quora similiar?
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I've never signed up to the site, but find this quite interesting. Does that mean you only consume the content via email or do you click through? Sounds like a massive headache for Quora in the first case.
You really have to visit the site, the emails only contain snippets of conversation. That being said, the emails are brilliant. I don't know how the content is selected, but almost every time I open one I see something eye-catching enough that I click through.
Yeah - I second that. Quora is one of the few sites that sends me weeklyish emails that I haven't unsubscribed from because the content is fantastic. I always seem to learn something from clicking through it.
It's kind of a bummer that they're needing to pivot and find a way to revenue - from a non-business, purely consumer perspective I find the site really enlightening and valuable.
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But most normal people won't know how to do this.
And the rest of us will forget 10 minutes from now. I really don't understand why people give quora a free pass on this when expertsexchange was nuked by the rest of the online community for inventing these tactics.
With ExpertsExchange you had to pay money.