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Re:Should You Pay to Pitch Your Startup? by whenisayUH on Monday December 12, 2011 @06:14PM (#3345477)
How is anyone being exploited? You have a choice to pitch or not. It's not blackmail. It may be foolish to pitch at these events, but as far as I know, nobody is being forced into pitching or being told "you can't research this event and our track record before signing up."
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Re:Should You Pay to Pitch Your Startup? by duhoang on Monday December 12, 2011 @06:19PM (#3345503)
It's like a scam...no one is forcing you to be a victim of a scam, you just don't know better. reply
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Re:Should You Pay to Pitch Your Startup? by whenisayUH on Monday December 12, 2011 @07:33PM (#3345753)
"You don't know better." If an entrepreneur is that helpless, paying-to-pitch is the least of their problems.
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Re:Should You Pay to Pitch Your Startup? by evgen on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @12:52AM (#3346506)
So it's better that you get your hand in their pocket before someone smarter comes along the relieve them of that burdensome wad of seed capital?
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Re:Should You Pay to Pitch Your Startup? by rmc on Tuesday December 13, 2011 @05:48AM (#3347154)
It's entirely possible to exploit people without holding a gun to their head (literally or figuratively).
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