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		GavinB on March 10, 2011 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Launch What made launching at SXSW a "do or die" situation? Sure, it's free publicity, but is that worth burnout and product that was rushed out the door? I wish you guys all the best, but I wonder if you'll look back at this in a year and think that maybe you should have just taken another month or two to build 1.0.

symptic on March 10, 2011 | [–]

Pride. Sounds to me like everyone knew what they were signing up for and fighting to make the accomplishment goes a long way in building the group.

Terry_B on March 10, 2011 | [–]

I'm guessing that it's the famous kickstart it gave to Twitter that has started this trend.

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