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Re:Lanyrd (YC W11): It's Twitter meets LinkedIn meets IMDB f... by sgrove on Thursday May 12, 2011 @06:01PM (#2542519)
Very interesting insight - could you have gotten around the chicken-and-egg problem pre-twitter? What would your approach have been?
Re:Lanyrd (YC W11): It's Twitter meets LinkedIn meets IMDB f... by simonw on Friday May 13, 2011 @03:42PM (#2545897)
I honestly don't think we could have - other sites had attempted to do this kind of thing for conferences in the past and hadn't really taken off, and I think the lack of a pre-existing social graph was a big factor. The fact that Twitter already had a social graph and a heavy focus on event activity was one of the inspirations for starting the site.