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Re:Ask HN: Startup Marketing by dholowiski on Sunday October 30, 2011 @11:05PM (#3176199)
Did you see PG talking to the guys who were doing the 'matchmaking' dating site on this weekend's startup school? He told them that instead of making it into a dating site, find some really good matchmakers, treat them really nice, and reward them, and the masses of users will come later. I don't know how it applies, but if you're having a chicken/egg problem, try changing it around to an egg/chicken problem... Try turning the whole idea on it's head.
Re:Ask HN: Startup Marketing by GroupRefer on Monday October 31, 2011 @07:34PM (#3179686)
this is actually one of the ways we considered. We called it the Tastemakers (interior designers), basically, getting people with good taste to recommend great products to put in your home, so users would be drawn to our website for the content.