I am Ben Lerer - co-founder of Thrillist.com and Lerer Ventures - AMA

BenJLerer · 1 month

love it...

BenJLerer · 1 month

Hate to hate but tell Paul sloppy job with the sign up flow. No autocomplete for location! You will have parcing nightmares...

BenJLerer · 1 month

o shit .... instead of investing in a social + travel site you guys basically built one in house... Paul Berry was the one doing tech due-diligence for you guys right...

BenJLerer · 1 month

you guys thinking about putting another bet down in the space, or one is enough...

BenJLerer · 1 month

BTW I will certainly do a AMA soon... do you work in tech or travel?

BenJLerer · 1 month

Ok good stuff. Met with Reece last week.... good people...

BenJLerer · 1 month

Thanks pummer, super excited to start releasing new product including a new web app, iOS app, and API for devs. Hit up wouter at tripl.com and he will get you into our inside user group so you can start testing in the next day....

BenJLerer · 1 month

Tripl- social travel

No idea how we missed but following your tweets it seems like we'd hit off (no homo)

HPVP and Quotidian did a convertible round with us. Now relaunching at TNW alongside Shelby.tv and doing Dreamit this summer. I'm a NYer who built the business overseas but finally brining it back to the best city in the world.

BenJLerer · 1 month

I've had the awesome opportunity to meet with basically the entire Lerer Team including your dad. You guys took a pass at us, but lead us to another VC who solidified the round.

How the hell do I get the chance to grab a beer with you?

ohnodapopo · 4 months

Are you from OnSwipe?

Benzona · 4 months

here are a bunch more https://www.google.com/search?q=snowflake+under+microscope&um=1&ie=UTF-8&hl=en&tbm=isch&source=og&sa=N&tab=wi&ei=T5z-TsGYJYTY0QG_r9SIAg&biw=1066&bih=530&sei=U5z-TpKhKOP40gGj8si2CA

CamWeSee · 4 months

First of all if you decide to take them on with you set up a vesting agreement right away. One with a 4 year period, 1 year cliff, monthly vesting after that. The buyback should be based on historical price and not current market value.

To be honest with you try to get rid of them now before you move forward and get it in writing.

pjsullivan3 · 5 months

No its couchsurfing without the weirdness of having to stay at peoples places. And it finds people that are connected to you, like friends of friends.

pjsullivan3 · 5 months

1) The purpose wasn't just to drive traffic to our site. I wanted to explain to other startups that there is another way to drive traffic to your site during your early stages of development.

2) We didn't insult them. We just showed the facts. We did however say we were upset with the way the article was written but I specifically wrote "Although we were grateful to be published" which we were and still are. We just wish they would have focused more on the technology we had built, which on an engineering stand point is hard.

3) I know very well traffic isn't a goal. If you read the post you should see that traffic leads you to the ability to test different theories about your product and find out what works.

4) I also just wrote in a comment above about the credibility its gives you

Secondly,

pjsullivan3 · 5 months

100% you are right with the credibility.... what do you mean by "spending a few hours pumping stuff through my social media accounts" - any tips?

pjsullivan3 · 5 months

how do you read it as a ego thing?

payyme · 5 months

who did your video?

compson1 · 5 months

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pjsullivan3 · 5 months

TheNextWeb is a great European tech based publication. Does anyone know another good one for the EU?

pjsullivan3 · 5 months

You incorrect. We can use all your friends current locations and checkins to make those connections. Please provide some examples of failures so we can try to learn from their mistakes. We have been working in the social travel space since 2009. We have failed at products, but there is no company who has been able to do this from an engineering point yet.

pjsullivan3 · 5 months

We are trying to utilize all the connections your friends have around the world, thereby limiting your need for your friends to actually be there. If you were going to Chicago, we can show you all of your friends who know someone there. We also utilize your check in data to find out where your friends are traveling and how you can connect them.

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