This will be one for the (forgotten) history books!
Juicero Is Shutting Down
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#202Are they shutting down using a super-complicated completely over engineered method of shutting down, or the regular way?
Drink, drink of the dark nectar of schadenfreude .
I imagine Richard, the owner of Desk Depot, rubbing his hands together and chortling to himself.
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#203That Thrive Capital magic touch. Another useless consumer company bites the dust.
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#205I simply do not understand the mindset of silicon valley investors. I used to think that perhaps they had some edge that helped them to get behind successful companies, but looking at this -- how much money they raised and from whom -- I think that there are just a bunch of people who have so much money that they can afford to risk throwing it away on something that will not likely succeed.
Can someone watch the video in the article and explain what sort of mindset you have to be in and think that this is a good idea? Perhaps the initial vision was different somehow and the final product does not align with what you thought you were putting your money behind? Is it possible that you see the issues, but have so little faith in consumers not to buy crap that it seems like you'll make a reasonable profit? Maybe there's something you see or know that I don't -- perhaps some sort of shake up in the fruit industry was set to make this a hit only to not meet expectations?
I am now more deeply concerned than ever about the effect that an exploding tech bubble is going to have on our economy.
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#206One of the VC-funded businesses we all knew would fail has finally failed, is this an early indicator of a market correction?
It's an indicator that the market needs to be more discerning about consumer needs. There is a lot of dry powder waiting to be deployed in the VC industry, so expect to see more specious stuff get funded until LPs decide that they can generate returns elsewhere.
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#208Earlier quoted context omitted.
We should probably split hairs here. I would love for all of my appliances to be networked -- just not on the public internet. - Preheat the oven as I'm driving home - Alert me when my laundry/dishes are done - Alert me if my air filter needs replaced. - Manage my AC/Heating for maximum energy efficiency. - Real time energy usage monitoring. - Turn on/off lights when I arrive/leave.
Assuming you have a dynamic ip this won't be possible without a cloud service.
Apparently Tor hidden services works well for this- there's a mode where the hidden service authenticates clients, so you even get some security for free.
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#209Earlier quoted context omitted.
Assuming you have a dynamic ip this won't be possible without a cloud service.
There's absolutely no reason why everyone who wants one shouldn't have a static block of IP(v6) addresses. If they're hard to get, that's an ISP problem rather than anything else.
Most mobile providers don't offer IPv6
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#210The Bloomberg article described Juicero as "one of the most lavishly funded gadget startups in Silicon Valley" and founder Doug Evans once said he planned to do for juicing what Steve Jobs did for computers.
With vision like that, it's hard to believe there were any issues.