Ask YC: What Are Your Biggest Marketing/PR Problems As A Startup?

Re:Ask YC: What Are Your Biggest Marketing/PR Problems As A ... by vaksel on Monday December 15, 2008 @02:14AM (#398134)

The chicken and the egg is probably the biggest problem. The new users don't want to join/buy because you lack content/users/reputation etc

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Re:Ask YC: What Are Your Biggest Marketing/PR Problems As A ... by nathanburke on Tuesday December 16, 2008 @12:17AM (#399213)

Vaksel- Awesome point. You inspired me to write a post on exactly what you're talking about: http://marketingstartups.com/2008/12/15/10-tips-on-attacking...

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Re:Ask YC: What Are Your Biggest Marketing/PR Problems As A ... by josefresco on Monday December 15, 2008 @07:33AM (#398274)

Tell me about it, my social site relies on heavy user participation (in fact requires it) to be useful to other users. And unlike Digg, my content is worthless 24 hours later meaning I can't 'seed' the site with my own content effectively.

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