Re:Y Combinator presents 26 new startups
by jmtame on Tuesday March 23, 2010 @04:36PM
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if it helps, farmville was a near duplicate rip-off of farm town, and it's now one of the most successful facebook apps. you don't always need to have 100% unique ideas. zynga spent more money advertising, and is now profitable with something like 100+ million players.
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But they had to spend boatloads of cash to acquire users. I don't think YC startups have lots of money to spend on advertising.
If COCA is less than first months earnings you have nigh infinite cash until you run out of channel. If Google found me ten million dollars worth of ads I'd have a stressful month doing daily credit card payments and calls to bank, but it would end with fifteen million in pocket and more miles than I want to think about.