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• Tools, startup review, Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, TechCrunch, Sycophants, DOA

  RockYou and Slide = Ponzi Scheme 2.0

  12.11.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  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 […]

• 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 […]

• 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 […]

• Creeps, Sycophants, TechCrunch, DOA, Blogroll

  Social Lending - Boom or Bust?

  09.21.07 | Permalink | 2 Comments

  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 […]

• TechCrunch, DOA

  Family Trees Web 2.0 Style Are Lame

  08.29.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  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 […]

• Snake Oil Salesmen, Y Combinator, DOA

  TechStars - Boulder, We Have a Problem

  08.17.07 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  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 […]

• Creeps, Tools, Snake Oil Salesmen, TechCrunch, Y Combinator, DOA

  Paid is better than Free, Michael Arrington needs a Homo Sapien Brain

  08.13.07 | Permalink | 7 Comments

  Assuming Michael Arrington is able to find a mate, his descendants may in 3.5 million years have normal reasoning abilities.
  TechCrunch is an awful enough blog for covering worthless businesses, but now it’s criticizing a legitimate company, 37signals, for giving bad advice? It’s one thing to be an idiot, but it’s simply unacceptable for Michael […]

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

  Gnomedex is a Joke, Scoble is Still a Tool

  08.13.07 | Permalink | 3 Comments

  Gnomedex is another one of those stupid Web 2.0 events where the self-important bloggers come together to talk about how they can use social news sites and organic whole bean tofu curd improve the world. A Warner Music executive Ethan Kaplan summarizes it better than I could myself saying:
  What was supposed to, and what […]

• Tools, Snake Oil Salesmen, TechCrunch, DOA

  IntenseDebate: Not Very Intense, Founders are Tense

  08.08.07 | Permalink | 5 Comments

  Josh, the founder of a TechStars short-kids bus start-up IntenseDebate, already got owned in regular debate. I will give it to Josh for at least having the balls to step down when he knew he had no arguments and trying to carry on a reasonable debate unlike the regular Y Bombinator tools.
  Why does Intense […]

• Snake Oil Salesmen, DOA

  Dell buys Zing, nobody cares

  08.07.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  Dell announced Monday it’s intentions to buy “privately held Zing Systems Inc., a company that focuses on always-on connected audio and entertainment devices”. Yawn. Nobody cares. And for good reason. This proves, yet again, that Dell just doesn’t get it.
  They go out and buy some little shitbrick piece of […]

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