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Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

#91

Post by Apocryphon »

jedsmith wrote: post #83
alanh wrote: post #79

Earlier quoted context omitted.

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 com…

If you resolve the abstract humor, I am critiquing the investment as a swindle which is a good example of the bubble that we are in. This is in line with the tongue-in-cheek critique that the item I'm responding to skillfully displays. My apologies that replies to my comment don't evoke the humorless, dry discussion of the merits of startup investment that you obviously came to this thread looking for; I'll do my bes…

HN doesn't seem to have a huge profusion of memes, photoshops, and so on that Reddit seems to embody. If anything, we're turning into Metafilter.

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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Post by jedsmith »

Apocryphon wrote: post #91
jedsmith wrote: post #83

Earlier quoted context omitted.

If you resolve the abstract humor, I am critiquing the investment as a swindle which is a good example of the bubble that we are in. This is in line with the tongue-in-cheek critique that the item I'm responding to skillfully displays. My apologies that replies to my comment don't evoke the humorless, dry discussion of the merits of startup investment that you obviously came to this thread looking for; I'll do my bes…

HN doesn't seem to have a huge profusion of memes, photoshops, and so on that Reddit seems to embody. If anything, we're turning into Metafilter.

pg should implement image links in comments. Pivot and disrupt.

I'd donate a paycheck to watch that nuclear fallout.

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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Post by pluies_public »

JarekS wrote: post #76
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.

What mistake in Wall Street? They were bailed out. They're even better off than before.

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

#96

Post by Apocryphon »

zaidf wrote: post #68

More 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.

I've read Halting State before. This is a secret government operation! The mobile photo social sharing app is just a cover for the Dept. of Homeland Security to prevent terrorists from acquiring our nation's coupons!

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

#97

Post by JonnieCache »

jedsmith wrote: post #94
Apocryphon wrote: post #91

Earlier quoted context omitted.

HN doesn't seem to have a huge profusion of memes, photoshops, and so on that Reddit seems to embody. If anything, we're turning into Metafilter.

pg should implement image links in comments. Pivot and disrupt. I'd donate a paycheck to watch that nuclear fallout.

We should go all-out FYAD style and have one weekend where CSS and flash embedding is allowed. Then on sunday night, run a script to clean the place up, and permanently delete the accounts of those who abused their temporary privileges. The definition of "abuse" should be an arbitrary, seemingly random one.

Then we will never speak of it again.

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

#98

Post by tylerrooney »

nickmolnar2 wrote: post #78

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 the…

I second your thought. Nguyen has a crazy track record.

He sold OneBox in 2000 for $850M (I realize that's insane-o bubble money), then started Seven (which is used by pretty much every carrier I can think of), and then sold LaLa to Apple for $80M.

Re: Parody Color Pitch Deck

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Post by graceyang »

jedsmith wrote: post #42
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…

Recalling the .com bubble, when the bottom falls out there is a lot of collateral damage, and not just to the players involved. Those of us on the sidelines and not involved in the idea-investment-flip cycle will suffer when the industry inevitably implodes upon itself. Facebook's valuation, specifically, has a lot of echoes to the past. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Aftermath briefly mentions the rippl…

I was too young to experience the job market post the first dot-com bubble but I would argue that if you're in a job that is going to suffer from the collapse of this current bubble, you're most likely currently benefiting from the bubble already. If not, the collateral damage should be relatively low. Would a 37signals, patio11's BCC really be affected by a crash of this current investment bubble? Probably not.
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