How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $6.5m for My Startup (2011)

Re:How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $6.5... by skurry on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @04:42PM (#6728778)

"I sent out a few celebratory tweets but mainly kept the news to myself."

How does that work? Are there private tweets? Like the ones that Anthony Weiner sent out?

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Re:How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $6.5... by blazespin on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @04:51PM (#6728843)

"Woohoo, great news, been accepted into an awesome incubator". Or perhaps something more vague.

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Re:How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $6.5... by steveklabnik on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @06:57PM (#6729516)

If you don't have a lot of followers, twitter is private-ish. There's a difference between a founder tweeting something and a posting on the official company blog, for example.

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Re:How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $6.5... by SiVal on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @07:09PM (#6729579)

My twitter feed is so private I only have three followers: me, myself, and I. My wife doesn't even follow me. I don't think she even knows I have a twitter account. It's all very hush-hush.

I should send out more private celebratory tweets....

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Re:How I Got Kicked Out of Y Combinator and Then Raised $6.5... by babuskov on Wednesday November 13, 2013 @07:21PM (#6729640)

Unless approximately the same number of people read the official company blog. Which shouldn't be far from truth.

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