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Count me as one of the guys miffed at everybody calling every little hacked out Rails website as a "startup". But in the case of a moon colony, I'm willing to let it slide.


"Don't be discouraged if what you produce initially is something other people dismiss as a toy. In fact, that's a good sign. That's probably why everyone else has been overlooking the idea. The first microcomputers were dismissed as toys. And the first planes, and the first cars. At this point, when someone comes to us with something that users like but that we could envision forum trolls dismissing as a toy, it makes us especially likely to invest."

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