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Re:Tell HN: Things I Learned From Meeting an Angel Investor by _pius on Thursday April 21, 2011 @07:11PM (#2472735)
>> ""Why wouldn't I just use [most popular competitor]"?"

Unless you were asking them for $1 billion this is pretty dumb.

I wouldn't say it's necessarily dumb. You fail if you're pitching a search engine and you don't have a compelling answer to "Why wouldn't people just use Google?"

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Re:Tell HN: Things I Learned From Meeting an Angel Investor by itswindy on Thursday April 21, 2011 @07:17PM (#2472749)
A search engine needs $100+ million to $xx billions to create and a very different angle to market since Google is bookmarked and people go there to search for stuff. You see Blekko trying to get some press by saying that they deleted 1 million domains from Serps? As if that makes sense

But yeah, if he wanted to create a web search engine, then he was asked the right question.

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