I have a great idea for a Web 2.0 start-up. Let’s raise $40 million from top name VCs to do a start-up to allow 15-year-old girls make slideshows! Let’s recruit top engineering talent and have our founding team include really smart people like Max Levchin of Paypal fame.
It’s comical that no […]

A great way to make people think you’re important is to say, “Don’t send me email, I can’t answer it.” The truth is that these people are retarded. If you’re important, you can hire someone to help you sort through your mail. If you’re just a retard and a loser, you don’t get that much […]

 
What is Dopplr?
“Dopplr is an online service for frequent travelers. It was created
by an international team of world travelers. We saw a need for this
kind of service, but discovered that no one was offering it. So we
did it ourselves, and are delighted that other people are liking it
as much as we do.”
The basic concept of […]

1. It’s not cheap to start startups.  It’s cheap to start bullshit Web 2.0 startups that rely on user-generated content.  Get your Venn diagrams right Paul.  I’ll give him the benefit of the doubt that he’s only referring to “web app” startups which are already a tiny subset of all startups in the world.  It’s […]

What is Zopa?
No, it’s not the latest group to hit the electronic music scene.
Although you would never be able to guess from the name, Zopa is “the
first lending and borrowing exchange.”  In case you still have no
idea what Zopa does, it’s basically a way for people to borrow money
from complete strangers or lend money to […]

Yawn. TechCrunch reports that MyHeritage and Geni are really duking it out. MyHeritage has raised $9 MM over three rounds. Geni has raised $11.5 MM at stupid valuations if TechCrunch is to be believed. It’s also interesting that the investors aren’t particularly known for foolishness either - Accel, The Founder’s […]

“I believe that they should, our education over here in the US should help the US, er, should should help South Africa and should help the Iraq and the Asian countries”
Robert Scoble once again demonstrates that he is a a giant tool. Don’t get us wrong. We get link baiting just like everyone […]

Want to be famous? Date supermodels (male or female)? Improve your golf game? Well then it’s time for you to join TechDumpster as a contributor. Does it pay? Nope. Not yet, at least. Hell, we don’t even make money off this beast and we own the damn thing. […]

At serious organizations like NASA, when things go wrong, they try to figure out why. At joke incubators when things go wrong, they just wait for Web 3.0.
Coders who go through an incubator are not entrepreneurs. Many “hackers” who run Web 2.0 sites are not entrepreneurs. The definition of an entrepreneur […]

Two blowhard idiots. One gets called on it, the other gets away because of bias in the media.
I find it incredible that the tech fluffers (Peter Thiel has a casting call out for “Personal Bitch” - I know Scoble and McClure have an app in, anyone else?) seem to think Facebook can do no […]