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Snake Oil Salesmen

• 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 […]

• 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, Hate Mail, Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, TechCrunch, Sycophants, Y Combinator

  Why Being Anonymous Makes TechDumpster More Honest

  08.11.07 | Permalink | 22 Comments

  It always amazes me how many people like to dismiss TechDumpster and Living in First Life’s comments and arguments simply because we refuse to disclose who we are.  Our anonymity is in fact the primary reason we write what we believe to be one of the most honest blogs in the Web 2.0 world.  Here […]

• Tools, Snake Oil Salesmen, Sycophants, TechCrunch, Y Combinator

  Michael Arrington and Paul Graham Can’t Debate

  08.11.07 | Permalink | 10 Comments

  It’s funny how people like Michael Arrington (TechCrunch) and Paul Graham (Y Combinator) love the idea of logic. They use the impression of it to keep their fanboys happy. The moment someone tries to use logic against them they dodge the issue and just ignore it or use fake logic. Here are some […]

• Creeps, Snake Oil Salesmen, Sycophants, TechCrunch

  Michael Arrington: Shill of the Week

  08.09.07 | Permalink | 17 Comments

  At least in Amsterdam, they’re clear. You pay for what you want. TechCrunch pretends they don’t get paid for their crappy articles.
  Using every opportunity to shill for Ooma, Michael Arrington wrote about Vonage’s improving results and threw in that he’s switching to Ooma. Let’s note why Michael Arrington and TechCrunch are […]

• 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 […]

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