October 2007

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• Tools, Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, DOA, Uncategorized

  Fake Being Important by Claiming You Can’t Answer Email Anymore

  10.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

• startup review, TechCrunch, Blogroll, Uncategorized

  frequent travelers, all aload of Dopplr?

  10.20.07 | Permalink | Comment?

   
  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 […]

• Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, Y Combinator, DOA

  Why Paul Graham’s “The Future of Web App” Essay is wrong

  10.10.07 | Permalink | 6 Comments

  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 […]

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