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		ivankirigin on Sept 4, 2007 \| parent \| context \| favorite \| on: Building Your Two Sentence Elevator Pitch Once you're done, test it on your mom or annoying uncle. If they get it, you're golden.

blored on Sept 4, 2007 [–]

I'm still up-voting for the aviators, but even if I wasn't, that garnered a chuckle.

Mom to Mark. "oh, you're building a website, like Google?"

ivankirigin on Sept 4, 2007 | [–]

To some you need to reply "Yes, we're going to be just like Google."

That relates to the other meme about setting expectations to force hard work to avoid embarrassment :)

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