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One Nuclear Bomb Will Ruin Your Whole Startup Bubble

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Re: One Nuclear Bomb Will Ruin Your Whole Startup Bubble

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The title has nothing to do with a post that sort of starts off somewhere and ends up going absolutely nowhere. What I thought you were going to write about was if some nation dropped an H-bomb and we all went to war, everyone would be recruited out of their current lives and startup-centric mind frames. No more entrepreneurship when everyone's trying to survive a war (Unless you're Milo Minderbiner in a Hellerian un…

The title is parody - he's commenting on the general amount of gibberish that gets written about startups.

There's so damn much useless, feel-good, vague gibberish written about startups that combating the problem by writing more of the stuff is not exactly the solution I'd prefer.

A startup is like a burrito. Wait, no. That's monads.

Re: One Nuclear Bomb Will Ruin Your Whole Startup Bubble

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Earlier quoted context omitted.

The title is parody - he's commenting on the general amount of gibberish that gets written about startups.

Parody has a referent, the title here is more accurately called "sarcastic."

I think it's a mashup of multiple startup memes. If a referent has to be singular rather than a general class in order for it to qualify as parody, then I stand corrected.

Re: One Nuclear Bomb Will Ruin Your Whole Startup Bubble

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The title has nothing to do with a post that sort of starts off somewhere and ends up going absolutely nowhere. What I thought you were going to write about was if some nation dropped an H-bomb and we all went to war, everyone would be recruited out of their current lives and startup-centric mind frames. No more entrepreneurship when everyone's trying to survive a war (Unless you're Milo Minderbiner in a Hellerian un…

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