How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction

Posted by ikeboy on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:09PM
from the medium.com dept.

https://medium.com/platform-thinking/how-paypal-and-reddit-faked-their-way-to-traction-9411fb583205

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Re:How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction by Oatseller on Friday April 17, 2015 @04:24PM (#9396988)

When Paypal was still part of X.com (1999 or 2000?) they paid new users to sign up ($10 added to your new account).

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Re:How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction by explosion on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:23PM (#9396604)

I'd be interested to hear more stories like this about seeding sites successfully without appearing fake. I've seen a lot of startups seed their sites in ways that just look too obvious.

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Re:How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction by ikeboy on Friday April 17, 2015 @03:30PM (#9396642)

The terms "two sided market seeding" seem to yield good search results if you want to explore further.

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Re:How Paypal and Reddit faked their way to traction by explosion on Friday April 17, 2015 @09:17PM (#9398001)

That phrase is new to me. ikeboy, thanks for the tip.

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