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Re:The Billion-Dollar Startup That Almost Never Was by brandnewlow on Monday June 27, 2011 @03:18PM (#2702588)
Unfortunately, the article never explains what that strategy was. "Getting into YCombinator" is posited as the solution to their problems, yet "getting into YCombinator" is not a user acquisition strategy.
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Re:The Billion-Dollar Startup That Almost Never Was by VladRussian on Monday June 27, 2011 @04:08PM (#2702803)
>the article never explains what that strategy was.

if memory serves me right it was already discussed here. Just google "airbnb craigslist spam". They admitted it themselves :

http://venturebeat.com/2011/06/02/airbnb-admits-gaming-craig...

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