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Y Combinator

• 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, 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 […]

• Sycophants, Y Combinator

  Anywhere.fm going Nowhere.fm + Don Dodge Has No Balls

  08.10.07 | Permalink | 4 Comments

  As with formerly intelligent folks like Dave McClure, Web 2.0 has a magical ability to make people forget logical reasoning skills. Today, we discover the odd case of Don Dodge, Director of Business Development at Microsoft’s Emerging Business Team. He had the cajones to stand up to Paul Graham’s stupid article about how […]

• TechCrunch, Y Combinator, DOA

  AdPinion - Vote on How Much You Dislike This Company!

  08.02.07 | Permalink | Comment?

  TechCrunch has an article on yet another bomb from Y Combinator known as “AdPinion”. Well AdPinion, my opinion is that you suck and will fail.
  There are a number of problems with this idea so let’s go through one-by-one:
  1. Advertising is not music. AdPinion is not Pandora. Let’s be clear on this. People barely pay attention […]

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