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Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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Post by Klonoar »

graceyang wrote: post #37

I 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…

While I agree with most other replies to you, I'll provide an alternative point.

Bubbles sicken me because they truly bring out the worst of the investor types, the ones who will throw money at anything regardless of its use case.

This is $41 fucking million dollars we're talking about here, and it's spent on a god damned mobile application to connect people with others in random arbitrary situations. People do not have a difficult time doing this, an application on a phone isn't going to make a difference. We're all human at the end of the day.

Now stop and think about what that $41 million could do in this world. This is nothing more than a bunch of rich kids circle jerking one another in what's a disgusting take on business principles in general. $41 million could create several businesses that could further create more jobs for the US economy; $41 million could be fucking used to help Japan out of a bind.

Instead, it's being used to buy a domain name for $350,000. It's being used to build another mobile application that isn't even that technically impressive. It's sickening, and I would never consider working for a company like that. As an engineer, I'd very much question those who'd consider it.

Get the fuck over yourselves.

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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Post by mortenjorck »

Alex3917 wrote: post #17
Klonoar wrote: post #4

This 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.

Startup idea:

A photo sharing service sharing service.

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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Post by Swannie »

jedsmith wrote: post #26

Hello, my name is Ms. Connie Jones . I am from SILICON VALLEY . I have recently inherited a social program from deceased prime minister of SILICON VALLEY with valuation of USD 100,000,000,000 . Contact my barrister to arrange transfer of USD 41,000,000 to secure ownership

Ms Connie Jones, Thank you for your offer. However I am always distrustful when offers appear to good to be true, as I am sure you are yourself.

In my circle, it is customary for such investments to be accompanied by a Ruby, some railway track, and sometimes a small mammal called a 'mongo', or if one can't be found, a couch is acceptable.

As an act of good faith, please post a photo of yourself, proving that you have said items.

Thanks and best regards, Swannie

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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Post by JarekS »

gruseom wrote: post #62

This 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.

I'm sorry - do you think that people on Wall Street were stupid when they were creating CDS and pumping huge speculation bubble around subprime mortgages? I think that we have enough evidence that smart people make mistakes - actually much bigger and more expensive mistakes then anyone could have expected.

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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Post by nickmolnar2 »

I'm gonna play devil's advocate here.

Don't bet against a world-class hustler who can also build cool shit. And that's Bill Nguyen.

Let's remember how Lala came to be. He built a service for swapping physical CDs, which promised to make sure that every album ever recorded made its way onto Bittorrent (since someone could rip and flip an album that had never been encoded for Then, he managed to get Sequoia to give their highest-ever pre-launch funding round. Sequoia isn't known for being a pack of dummies. Color has probably spent less than 10% of that round so far. There's a billion dollar market somewhere in this mobile photo sharing thing (I can't see it yet, but I can smell it), and I wouldn't be shocked if he's the one to cash in on it. Color has an accomplished team, and enough cash to make plenty of mistakes. He might have used every buzzword on earth to raise the round, but it worked, and now he's got plenty of gas in the tank to build something genuinely disruptive. And if Lala is any indication, he knows how to disrupt markets and build tight products (Lala was at least 2 years ahead of its time as a product).

While Color app might sound like it was created by pasting together TechCrunch and FastCompany articles, this is only the beginning for them. Color is clearly in it for the long haul.

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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Post by alanh »

jedsmith wrote: post #26

Hello, my name is Ms. Connie Jones . I am from SILICON VALLEY . I have recently inherited a social program from deceased prime minister of SILICON VALLEY with valuation of USD 100,000,000,000 . Contact my barrister to arrange transfer of USD 41,000,000 to secure ownership

Parent and (especially) all its replies are really depressing in their redditness. Edit: Sure, okay, parent gets a pass. It is almost insightful. But the rest is noise, plain and simple, and that’s sad.

Final addendum: Redditization is a serious concern, and per broken windows theory, Reddit-like comments should not be encouraged at all: http://paulgraham.com/hackernews.html

> The most dangerous form of stupid comment is not the long but mistaken argument, but the dumb joke.

That’s what I am starting to see a lot of.

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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Post by kovar »

tesseract wrote: post #70
kovar wrote: post #59

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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.

http://tvtropes.org/pmwiki/pmwiki.php/Main/SoCalization

Ahh, I didn't know it had hit the vernacular. Thank you.
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