Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die.
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Yesterday, I Went to the American Idol for Startups. It Made Me Want to Die.
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#3Really enjoying the author's prose. This had me rolling:
>>It’s like watching some sadist work over a baby lamb with a rusty crowbar and a broken gin bottle. The names of these startups sound like the products of an aggressive brain tumor on the frontal lobe. Crowdegy, Placeling, Kouply, QuoteRobot, Appthwack, Makegood, Onthego, Nickler, Kahal, Tanzio, Taskk. They’re all whimsical and unique in exactly the same way.
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#4Not to be that guy but it's like the author is writing a novel. What's the tl;dr here?
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#5Not to be that guy but it's like the author is writing a novel. What's the tl;dr here?
He went to Startup Riot, saw a bunch of consumer internet startups pitching their product.
Complained about the names, the language used to describe the ideas ("content" vs "text", "consume" vs "read", etc) and the ideas themselves.
Half of the article sounds like sour grapes, half is legit criticism.
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#6Not to be that guy but it's like the author is writing a novel. What's the tl;dr here?
shaaaaark tank
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#7Not to be that guy but it's like the author is writing a novel. What's the tl;dr here?
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#8Here's the author's bio and picture if it helps put this article in context: http://www.thestranger.com/seattle/paul-constant/Author?oid=...
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#9Not to be that guy but it's like the author is writing a novel. What's the tl;dr here?
The problems that startups are trying to solve are too small and too uniform, possibly because marketing language used to define those problems sounds good but means little.
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#10Not to be that guy but it's like the author is writing a novel. What's the tl;dr here?
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