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If one were to bring the concept of Twitter to a VC today, would it be invested in, or turned away?

10th October 2013

My answer to If one were to bring the concept of Twitter to a VC today, would it be invested in, or turned away? on Quora

If someone brought just the concept without any form of actual implementation (of something that is pretty easy to prototype) I don’t think they would get very far.

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