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 died

    design 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

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