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Re: Pizza Compass

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> Also interested in their business model and how they plan to achieve profitability. Any VC worth their weight wouldn't touch a startup like this with a 10-foot pole. Zzzzzz. I find this reading is incredibly dense. What VC, profitablity, business model and such crap? They made a fun app, they are selling it. They don't intend to become the next Instagram or whatever. They just want to sell their cheaply produced ap…

These people are trying to exploit the pizza market by taking advantage of desperate pizza workers and forcing them to join their walled pizza garden with promises of absurd profits. It's a shame that people are endorsing this very obvious and pathetic attempt to use pizza for their own success.

But look at the growth! Yesterday I had one pizza, and today I have two. By the law of extrapolation that makes pizza compass the fastest growing company ever with a roughly 7.5X10^107% annual growth rate!

Re: Pizza Compass

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that would imply they have a lot of it already... I would suggest it's like selling swimming trunks to greenlanders :)

Greenland does have a lot of ice. Perhaps you are thinking of Iceland, which is significantly warmer. Interestingly, Greenland was given its name essentially as a marketing ploy by Erik the Red: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1965/shouldnt-green... Greenland: https://www.google.com/search?q=greenland+country+temperatur... Iceland: https://www.google.com/search?q=iceland+country+temperature&...

Ah I think you misunderstood me... I was correcting the OP's analogy. He said "Selling humor on hn is like selling ice to Greenlanders", I said "No, Greenlanders have lots of ice already. HN users have no humour already".

Re: Pizza Compass

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Greenland does have a lot of ice. Perhaps you are thinking of Iceland, which is significantly warmer. Interestingly, Greenland was given its name essentially as a marketing ploy by Erik the Red: http://www.straightdope.com/columns/read/1965/shouldnt-green... Greenland: https://www.google.com/search?q=greenland+country+temperatur... Iceland: https://www.google.com/search?q=iceland+country+temperature&...

Ah I think you misunderstood me... I was correcting the OP's analogy. He said "Selling humor on hn is like selling ice to Greenlanders", I said "No, Greenlanders have lots of ice already. HN users have no humour already".

Gotcha.
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