Explain to a non-designer - web success
Explain to a non-designer - web success
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- grafician2
Pinterest is VC backed
ffffound was an agency side project, couldn't be monetized (or won't) and dieddesign had nothing to do with it
- design could have been used to get backing. It helps.monospaced
- ffffound was NSFW, so no VC would touch it, also it was .jp not American - if you're not in SF you don't exist for VC basicallygrafician
- but it was successful because it was pre-instagram, pre-behance, pre-dribbble etc.grafician
- One time I remember I had over 600 ffffound tabs open in Firefox back in 2008 lolgrafician
- "you don't exist for VC basically" lol
@grafician VC money exists outside the United States.sted - @mono you can't say Tha.jp lack design skills, that studio is one of the most innovative in the world, ffffound stripped-down aesthetic was a choice, for suregrafician
- designspiration is well designed. but it's still too nichehans_glib
- @sted Sure it exists, but not for projects like Facebook, Google, Amazon, etc. Try to open a Facebook 2.0 in europe lolgrafician
- @sted also you can't grow/scale like the in US, this is a long discussion about VC and startups, next time...grafician
- Slick decks. The only skill needed to secure millions in SV was keynote. (Jokes)jtb26
- @jtb you'd be surprised how often this happens lol no jokegrafician