My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor

Posted by bernieyoo on Thursday December 19, 2013 @12:02PM
from the self-post dept.

You encounter lots of crazy people while fundraising for your startup. The results can be entertaining. Here's my favorite:

https://medium.com/p/872e3afdec9f

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Re:My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor by ColinWright on Thursday December 19, 2013 @12:07PM (#6935947)

Is there any particular reason why you didn't do the usual thing and submit the actual link, including your "descriptive" text in the actual article?

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Re:My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor by bernieyoo on Thursday December 19, 2013 @12:12PM (#6935980)

No particular reason, just giving a 2-sentence context to why I posted the link.

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Re:My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor by ColinWright on Thursday December 19, 2013 @12:15PM (#6936018)

Seems particularly obvious given this audience. You do know that submissions without URLs are punished in the rankings, making it less likely to reach the front page, and hence less likely to get much attention, yes?

It's also less likely to get readers, because it isn't a clickable link.

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Re:My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor by bernieyoo on Thursday December 19, 2013 @12:20PM (#6936068)

ahh that would be because I"m an idiot. Thanks for the heads up.

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Re:My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor by mindcrime on Thursday December 19, 2013 @01:21PM (#6936542)

Clickable:

https://medium.com/p/872e3afdec9f

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Re:My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor by bernieyoo on Thursday December 19, 2013 @01:30PM (#6936614)

Thanks :)

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Re:My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor by CrossWired on Saturday December 21, 2013 @08:29PM (#6948906)

Good job dodging these guys.

BTW, I'm an active client of yours and love what you have going.

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Re:My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor by rajacombinator on Sunday December 22, 2013 @03:08AM (#6949734)

Why edit out their names? You should expose these morons so others don't waste time with them. Also your reply email was way too polite.

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Re:My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor by _pius on Thursday December 19, 2013 @12:20PM (#6936070)

Good post, just wish you'd name the "investor."

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Re:My close encounter with a pay-to-pitch investor by bernieyoo on Thursday December 19, 2013 @12:26PM (#6936127)

Email me. bernie[at]bombfell[dot]com

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