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How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?

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Re: How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?

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My head immediately jumps to YikYak but I know there were some others in this domain 10 years ago. I can't think of many recently though! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak

Too many syllables in the name, and too much functionality. I refer you to Yo:

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)

Re: How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?

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I would watch a remake of "The Producers" set in Silicon Valley with startups instead of Broadway productions.

For those unfamiliar, it's about guys who fraudulently resell the same shares in the profit of a Broadway production 25 times over, and then try to ensure that it's a failure so there won't be any profit to pay, but accidentally create a success and are ruined.

Re: How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?

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post #5
post #2

If the proposal has "AI" in it, lots :) But the comic beat me to it, I wish they were trying to be funny, but ... Nice Comic BTW

Hit the red button at the bottom

And hover over the comic (or tap it if on mobile).

Re: How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?

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post #4

My head immediately jumps to YikYak but I know there were some others in this domain 10 years ago. I can't think of many recently though! https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yik_Yak

Too many syllables in the name, and too much functionality. I refer you to Yo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)

Interesting, I didn’t realize that the “Bro” app from Silicon Valley was based off of a real app.

Re: How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?

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post #11

Like a lot. Didn't YC even fund that startup that wanted to turn middle class suburban homeowners into slumlords by building rental poverty shacks in their back yards?

I don’t know what startup you are mocking, but this is a very bad faith way to characterize building ADUs cheaply. You don’t know the first thing about housing, besides making drama about it.

Re: How much money we can raise for transparently idiotic startups?

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post #17

Earlier quoted context omitted.

Too many syllables in the name, and too much functionality. I refer you to Yo: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Yo_(app)

Interesting, I didn’t realize that the “Bro” app from Silicon Valley was based off of a real app.

I don't believe I've seen anything in the TV show Silicon Valley that wasn't based on something IRL. Dig around on anything that appears in that show, and I defy you to find something that the writers just pulled out of their ass.
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