I want to know what they're doing with those 77,216 other colours they're hoarding.
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Parody Color Pitch Deck
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#102"ACT NOW. Supplies are limited to 16,700,000."
Fucking genious.
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#103Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
> 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.
A good point, but with respect to the .com bubble, Internet commerce's crash also affected the entire economy as well as ancillary companies in the IT sector. So I'm not sure that I necessarily agree; I work for a hosting company, and all of these bubble companies need hosting. You can see where A meets B, there.
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#104Earlier 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…
Those of us who followed the exodus out of reddit when it got full of noise and shrillness have a sense of foreboding. Those of us who still read reddit are thrilled to see it come to Hacker News.
I bet there is a clear age division between the two groups. I had the distinct impression that reddit had gotten younger when I left.
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#105This 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: Do a better job than Forrester
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#106Earlier quoted context omitted.
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.
After a bubble bursts, the pendulum tends to swing the other way, towards extreme thrift, caution, and near-paranoia - it affects spending as well as investment. The over-correction can hurt everyone.
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#107This is an incredibly viral piece of promotional content.
Awesome job, guys.
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#109I'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…
"There's a billion dollar market somewhere in this mobile photo sharing thing"
Where will the billion dollar come from? Getting paid to take pictures next to McDonalds?
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#110I'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…
Thank you for one of the few decent comments on the subject. I much prefer people trying to deconstruct things rather than just dismissing them.