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The data is interesting but the quality factor is the most important. I.E. A 20000 dollar web designer may actually cost you money in the long run vs a higher paid one.

Completely agree, but what about understanding who that customer is, connecting the right features with the right group of people with the right marketing. That kind of information has a lot of theory but not a step by step guide guaranteeing success. I suppose this is more idea decisions and direction decisions rather than implementation but I think my point still applies.

Agree that procedural knowledge is important. But I think the critical decisions that make a startup a success or failure don't have a specific procedure as they're unique problems that nobody has every faced before. I also believe that moving out of the box is the only way to truly take what you've built and make it much bigger than it is.

I usually don't try to comment on the ideas. I can frankly never tell the difference between a hit and a miss.

Hmm, is this a problem with techcrunch or these startups PR departments?

It looks like to me like the only asset they have is their list.

July seems to be the hot month. I wonder if anybody has an analysis of raises vs times of the year. Could be pretty interesting if there was a trend.

I've never seen so many positive up-votes before. What do you think of this as a move? Do you think it makes him accesible or will it be seen as pandering?