Title: A lot of mixergy interviewers say that in the early days they've done things that would be considered unethical in order to get their sites off the ground.<p>A good example of this would be Facebook, which has done a ton of things early on.<p>So have you yourself(or the company you worked for) done anything that would be considered unethical to get the business off the ground?(if you are worried about your reputation just use a throwaway account)<p>This may involve:<p>- spamming comments to get links/users<p>- creating a ton of pages with keywords to get long tail google traffic<p>- scraping other's websites to fill your DB<p>- putting up an order page when your site wasn't ready<p>- putting up <i>235 users online</i> when you only had one<p>- pretending to be bigger than you were<p>- voting up your own submission on HN/Digg/Reddit<p>- creating a fake back story to make your startup interesting(we just want to save the world, we don't care about money)<p>- astroturfing your site with fake accounts<p>- sending fake numbers to get coverage(i.e. traffic, revenue, profit)<p>- buying an email list to spam people<p>- promising unrealistic delivery dates<p>- using the user's email address to spam their address book<p>- pretending the site has users when it doesn't(this hottie is 5 miles away from you, register to contact her)<p>- etc.
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