YouTube: How Evernote user saved company w/$500k at last possible second

jc.is

21 points·jasonmcalacanis··9 comments

Great story.

This is exactly what Angel investors should be doing. It's a relatively small amount of money, delivered with extreme speed and a willingness to take a punt. Angels may want to step up the the VC plate, but the risk is that the documents and deals are get thicker and slower. Isn't it better to give smaller amounts and more often?

I love stories like this. There are times when it seems there is no hope and the world is against you, but if you continue to push forward in the face of that adversity you just might find the help you need from an entirely unexpected source.

Is that the opposite of a "black swan" event? Maybe call it the golden swan haha.

Man I know this feeling ... would have loved to have had an angel fly in last second on my second company. :) On the other hand, that was when I wrote my first novel which probably would not have happened otherwise, so ... :)

What's the logic of putting 'YouTube: ' in the title yet using a URL shortener for the link?

That's the title of the page.

Jason probably used the HN bookmarklet

I don't think so, as YouTube URLs use ' - ' rather than ': '.

Either way, I think having YouTube in the HN title is a good idea, however all submissions ought to have the actual URL, not going through a shortener.

JC.is appears to be Calacanis's personal URL shortener.

What crazy luck! Would have sucked to not have Evernote around!

But you wouldn't know it sucked. There are lots of great companies that aren't around because they lacked the stroke of luck that saved Evernote. And we don't miss them precisely because they never were.

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