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was the IG campaign pre or post acceptance into YC?

This is a really solid looking app for parents. Curious, how do you differentiate against guys like Netflix doing something similar?

Techstars should see some other big exits over time with SendGrid (couldn't find actual current valuation) and DigitalOcean ($153M Valuation in 3 years) to name a few

yclist has a few errors, so not sure if it's all 100% accurate.

To name a few: xobni - bought by yahoo and now shut down (listed as active) like.fm - dead, but listed as active Exec - listed as active, but was bought by Handybook Bump - listed active, but dead

I think this video by Chamath Palihapitiya about FB growth strategy is super interesting (http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=raIUQP71SBU).

Relentless focus on building the thing the customer wanted vs focus on viral marketing strategies. That said, they had an inherent viral growth strategy by targeting their initial user base to a very sociable/vocal college crowd. That wasn't a growth hack, it was merely solving a problem that most college kids had.

consulting

It's true...can you imagine if the adults have their chance of showing the true valuation of SC in the public markets

Looks like Spiegel didn't pay attention at the bullish attitude Andrew Mason had this early on turning down crazy acquisition offers with Groupon, and we know how that ended.

were you able to get any other early market or customer validation beyond your co-founder's personal problem? Awesome concept!

I added the article here because that is exactly how I felt after someone forwarded it to me. There was no value in the comments on VentureBeat (and the author was commenting at all there anyway) so I figured there would be some worthwhile discussions here on the topic and potential someone with data to backup Michael if they agreed with him.

Without a doubt, SA is the go to resource

Atleast your brain is absorbing knowledge through HN vs facebook, instagram, snapchat, etc. where it adds little to no value

I would completely agree. At the core of it, customer discovery and learning what product your customers want/will pay for (and thus you should build) is the core of subscribing to being a "lean startup." Product does matter, but what matters more is building something someone would pay for

What does that make Compylr?