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jpdoctor on Dec 20, 2011 | parent | context | favorite | on: Why your startup should never release numbers

> make you trustworthy

Only for those that believe marketing, ie the gullible.

GFischer on Dec 20, 2011 [–]

That's a lot of us.

Social proof is important, see joshfraser upthread mentioning Sendgrid's numbers give him confidence: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=3371877

They do nudge me too.

See also: http://techcrunch.com/2011/11/27/social-proof-why-people-lik...

jpdoctor on Dec 20, 2011 | [–]

> That's a lot of us.

Proof by assertion, again, which is what the numbers-advertising game is all about.

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