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Re:Why Users Don't (And Shouldn't) Trust Startups by georgemcbay on Friday March 16, 2012 @04:49PM (#3715210)
Charging money just by itself isn't enough to boost my confidence, charging money and reaching a publicly obvious critical mass of users combined would help but then you've still got a chicken and egg problem in creating that critical mass.
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Re:Why Users Don't (And Shouldn't) Trust Startups by freshlog on Friday March 16, 2012 @04:59PM (#3715258)
Good point. I think it helps to learn more about the people behind the app and their motivations.

I made Handpick (http://handpick.me) as a side project and have not taken any outside investment. Hence I have no investor pressure to obtain a critical mass of users in an insane period of time.

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