This damn thing reads like a Better Off Ted Veridian Dynamics intro.
edit: Or the Jabberywocky presentation:
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#62This is a very low-quality post and an even lower-quality thread. Stop to think. Sequoia have the best track record in the industry. Is it likely they're completely fucking stupid? Because that's what follows if these snarky comments have merit.
Man am I thankful I have something awesome to do with the rest of my day.
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#63Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not so sure. According to Forrester, the average American will use 187 different photo sharing services by 2016. It seems like this could be a good chance to get in on the ground floor.
187 different photo sharing services?! I think that's a gross over estimation... I bet I'll use closer to 10-20 by 2016.
No no, you missed the point. It's not that 187 photo sharing services will exist, it is that each American will personally use, on average, 187 photo sharing services. About a thousand will exist. Forrester also projects that Scoble will be the top user on all of them.
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#64This is the best thing in 2011 by far. I enjoy the fact that more people are seemingly calling bullshit on this industry, it kind of needs a dose of realism.
I'm not so sure. According to Forrester, the average American will use 187 different photo sharing services by 2016. It seems like this could be a good chance to get in on the ground floor.
Maybe I'm not average, but I've used around 2-3 photo sharing services in the past 5 years.
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#65It's time's like these I refer back to my favorite HackerNews comment of all time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2133161
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#66Earlier quoted context omitted.
I'm not so sure. According to Forrester, the average American will use 187 different photo sharing services by 2016. It seems like this could be a good chance to get in on the ground floor.
Maybe I'm not average, but I've used around 2-3 photo sharing services in the past 5 years.
Whoosh
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DEAR SIR/MADAM, There is nothing conspicuous about this.
How could I forget DEAR SIR/MADAM? Typing 419 scams is harder than I thought.
No more. Use http://toutapp.com.
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#68More likely, this Colors app is probably a very, very tiny part of what they really got funded for.
Conclusion: no one really knows what they got funded for. Sure, a stealth company getting 40M in funding is bad; but getting 40M for an app called Colors is what's got people ticking.
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#69I have a serious question: why do people get upset at bubbles? Is it jealousy that others are getting investment or flipping their companies where you perceive little value? I'm not asking to be a bitch - just curious cause i feel some of those emotions myself but I rationally know that they are counterproductive. Shouldn't we be happy for our startup brethren? Does color's funding hurt you (or the industry?). I imag…
Because overinvestment in a specific sector of the economy necessarily results in underinvestment in other sectors of the economy.
In the case where investment capital flows to ultimately unproductive enterprises like photo sharing, and away from productive enterprises like efficient batteries, cancer drugs, etc, humanity suffers in the long term.
Now it's possible that the proliferation of photo sharing services is increasing the efficiency of photo sharing that people were doing previously, thus freeing up time to engage in other productive pursuits, so it's not necessarily a bad thing to sink investment capital into ventures that appear unproductive in and of themselves.
But I would highly suspect that this is not the case for the current bubble. It's quite likely that photo sharing apps are actually generating demand for photo sharing activity, thus being a net drain on actual economically productive activity.
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187 indeed :) Going to have to call in a 5150 to keep average investors from being burned this time...
You've been associated with California LE, or similar, me thinks. Edit: Apparently Van Halen used "5150" for an album title. Shows how out of touch I am.