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abstractbill on Dec 20, 2010 | parent | context | favorite | on: AOL Acquires Personal Profile Startup About.Me

Or, because of their ability to ... sell it for a huge sum.

Wait, so the founding team is worth a lot because of their ability to sell themselves? Sounds like rather circular reasoning.

lkozma on Dec 21, 2010 | [–]

Or like self-fulfilling prophecy.. Thanks HN, first a post on multilingual Quines, then this line.. My head spins now.. :)

kareemm on Dec 20, 2010 | [–]

sell themselves and "sell" their product (to 400k users) in exchange for time and attention.

as the GP suggests, startups are about a lot more than tech - selling, it turns out, is also valuable.

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