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Re:Want To Know How (Not) To Pitch Your Startup? Look No Fur... by maaku on Saturday December 31, 2011 @10:14PM (#3412523)
The truly innovative startups, the ones every investor wishes they were in on the ground floor of (Google, FB, Twitter, ...) could not have been summarized as "the X of Y" before their introduction.
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Re:Want To Know How (Not) To Pitch Your Startup? Look No Fur... by pluies on Saturday December 31, 2011 @10:53PM (#3412551)
Meh. Google was "yahoo search but simpler/better", FB was "myspace but non-customisable". Twitter is arguably more innovative, but could be summarised as "the texting of internetz".
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Re:Want To Know How (Not) To Pitch Your Startup? Look No Fur... by maaku on Sunday January 01, 2012 @04:34AM (#3412787)
Do any of those descriptions really do a good job at selling? If I heard any of those back in the day, I would have said "so what?" The answer to that so-what should be the pitch.
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