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Re:Why your startup should never release numbers by GFischer on Monday December 19, 2011 @09:09PM (#3371992)
That's a lot of us.

Social proof is important, see joshfraser upthread mentioning Sendgrid's numbers give him confidence: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3371877

They do nudge me too.

See also: http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/27/social-proof-why-people-lik...

Re:Why your startup should never release numbers by jpdoctor on Monday December 19, 2011 @10:04PM (#3372124)
> That's a lot of us.

Proof by assertion, again, which is what the numbers-advertising game is all about.