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How Not To Promote Your New Startup
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#12It was a great sob story until he tried to promote his wireless thing at the end... Then I just had to laugh.
Yeah, that's really where it takes a turn for the surreal. "How not to promote," indeed - and the scary thing is how you can sympathize with his bitterness and sort of see how there, but for the grace of God, go you.
The part where he calls the founder of the list a troll is also choice.
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#13You gotta love his sweet pic at the bottom...
page - http://PDXCell.com
pic - http://pdxcell.com/images/johnpratt.jpg
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#14It appears the author has the wrong idea that a good idea demands exclusive success...if that were the case, I would imagine most of us would be millionaires.
You can't complain about something being hard to execute on and then bitch because others executed the idea better than you could. That's just the nature of the game.
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#15You gotta love his sweet pic at the bottom... page - http://PDXCell.com pic - http://pdxcell.com/images/johnpratt.jpg
I think it is a little bit odd that he links to Kickstarter from this PDXCell page.
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#16It appears the author has the wrong idea that a good idea demands exclusive success...if that were the case, I would imagine most of us would be millionaires. You can't complain about something being hard to execute on and then bitch because others executed the idea better than you could. That's just the nature of the game.
That was my (probably engineer-biased) take as well. Pratt seems to think that their awesome idea even with shitty execution (by his own admission) should have won the day.
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#17(The title isn't mine, it's Janey Lee's from Twitter, but it fits and so I kept it).
ha, thanks :) not that I can take credit for anything either, I just happened to have been subscribed to the barcampla mailing list.
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#20This is almost funny enough to become a meme:
For those of you who insist on thinking that the truth always lies in between two accounts of a situation, I urge you to drop that misguided notion, especially for this situation.