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Re:Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve ... by plinkplonk on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @10:36PM (#99615)
Justin.TV seems to have a very interesting startup model. An apparently trivial "outer" application which needs a good deal of innovation "under the covers" to pull off, which is where the real competitive edge comes from. Pulls in a different direction from how most people parse "build what users want".

I wonder how they pitched it to YC (and other investors).

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Re:Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve ... by vlad on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @11:00PM (#99623)
>> I wonder how they pitched it to YC (and other investors).

AFAIK, Justin and a friend took part in the first YC session with a web calendar called Kiko, which they sold on eBay for 5 or 6 figures to a media company after Google came out with theirs. They started working on Justin.tv to have a product in a market which didn't exist at the time, mobile streaming video, to have a better chance of survival.

I believe Justin et al have been working on Justin.tv even before Google purchased YouTube, and are funded by investors closely linked to YCombinator who enjoyed his YCombinator calendar startup.

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Re:Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve ... by aston on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @11:43PM (#99636)
"funded by investors closely linked to YCombinator"

And maybe a little from YC partners, too...

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Re:Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve ... by danielha on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @11:46PM (#99637)
YC is the closest link to YC, smarty.
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Re:Surprise, Justin.TV Builds Own CDN To Cut Costs, Improve ... by cstejerean on Wednesday January 16, 2008 @10:48PM (#99620)
they didn't pitch it to yc. IIRC their initial project was a web calendar that died when google did theirs. I think most of the current stuff they figured out when Justin did his initial stunt and it just picked up from there.
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