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Re:Selling Kiko: How Justin Kan sold his first YC startup on... by paulitex on Monday February 21, 2011 @06:03PM (#2247701)
Great story, but I wonder if this is a situation where you 'only hear about the winners'? I'd love to know if anyone has tried something similar on eBay? I suppose the question is this: is eBay really a good market for fledging startups looking to liquidize or was this story one of those million-dollar homepage things?
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Re:Selling Kiko: How Justin Kan sold his first YC startup on... by d_r on Monday February 21, 2011 @08:08PM (#2248133)
From the post: We posted the auction on Reddit and, with the help of a few friends, got to the front page. ... Pretty quickly the story was picked up by Techcrunch ...

This part has got to be important. Getting significant visibility for the auction likely helped quite a bit, and eBay is just a medium that made the auction possible.

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