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Re:Mint’s Founder on Blippy: I Don’t Get It by tlrobinson on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @02:29AM (#1297416)
Hey, UGGs are pretty damn comfortable.

But seriously, who thought it was a good idea to take Facebook's biggest blunder (Beacon) and turn it into a venture backed startup?

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Re:Mint’s Founder on Blippy: I Don’t Get It by billclerico on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @03:19AM (#1297492)
props to blippy for having the balls to try something aggressive, instead of developing just a "me too" sharing site
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Re:Mint’s Founder on Blippy: I Don’t Get It by guit on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @02:55AM (#1297452)
Sequoia Capital, August Capital, Charles River Ventures, Evan Williams, Ron Conway, James Hong, ...
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Re:Mint’s Founder on Blippy: I Don’t Get It by tlrobinson on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @03:29AM (#1297508)
Yes, I'm aware. I guess I should have phrased my question more explicitly as "why?"
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Re:Mint’s Founder on Blippy: I Don’t Get It by guit on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @03:42AM (#1297529)
Perhaps you should tell that group of investors how stupid their investment was. They must have been asleep during the pitch.
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Re:Mint’s Founder on Blippy: I Don’t Get It by tlrobinson on Tuesday April 27, 2010 @04:41AM (#1297618)
I'm sure they're not dumb, but it's not obvious to me why it's a good idea. Would you like to enlighten us? Because no one else here seems to have any idea either.

AFAICT it's not much different than Beacon, which was very quickly abandoned by Facebook after a huge backlash (and lawsuits). If it is different then I'm curious why.

Also, do you work at Blippy? Just curious... most of your comments here have been about Blippy.

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