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How Not To Promote Your New Startup
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#32Wow. Pratt's obsession with Kickstarter "ripping off" Fundable is especially silly considering that both are essentially variants of Kelsey and Schneier's Street Performer Protocol, published in 1998 [1]. (That paper is not even the first instance of the basic idea, just one of the most well-known.) Edited to add: I'd be really interested to see one of these sites implement the Rational Street Performer Protocol [2],…
Yeah, the basic idea is clever, but hardly novel. Back in 2004 my friend and I entered our college's business plan competition with a plan for a music site based on this kind of funding model. We originally got the idea from an article on corante.com.
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#33I cannot tell you how painful it is to watch 5 assholes take your idea and run with it and not even give you credit. I hate all 5 of them for that. If I see them, I may punch each one of them in the face. If you have never started your own company and then had someone else steal the credit for what you worked hard to develop, you don't understand. yikes, sounds like entrepreneurship really doesn't suit John.
Was any patents involved?
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#34"I cannot tell you how painful it is to watch 5 assholes take your idea and run with it and not even give you credit. I hate all 5 of them for that. If I see them, I may punch each one of them in the face." ... "I am not very bitter because I realize how much I learned and how much I got to experience"
Good god.
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#35You gotta love his sweet pic at the bottom... page - http://PDXCell.com pic - http://pdxcell.com/images/johnpratt.jpg
Yah, that pic screams douchebag (as if it wasn't already obvious).
Would you say as much to his face?
I'm not particularly impressed by his antics but I don't think name-calling adds anything to this discussion.
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#36Perfect example of "Lets kick the guy when he is down", and Seriously why is this even here? I rest my case.
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#37The hilarity continues at PDXCell.com Check out the section entitled: "A response to this page". Shoulda known he was an Apple fanboy.
Yeah, trying to defuse expert criticism by accusing experts of being narrow-minded really sets off my crackpot alarm. (History is full of cases where expert consensus was wrong, but I think these cases are notable precisely because they are exceptional.)
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#38You gotta love his sweet pic at the bottom... page - http://PDXCell.com pic - http://pdxcell.com/images/johnpratt.jpg
Wow, not sure if it's new but there's even an excerpt from the email thread above the photo.
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#39You gotta love his sweet pic at the bottom... page - http://PDXCell.com pic - http://pdxcell.com/images/johnpratt.jpg
I think this is worth highlighting specifically:
> By nature, most engineers try to tear projects down and explain why things won't work or are "too much work." It's often a consequence of how most of them can interpret minor hangups as major, nearly-insolvable problems. That's why you have to find those rare engineers, like Google engineers or Apple engineers, who have a respect for the arts and humanities. Those are the engineers who create breakthroughs and push the limits of existing technologies. NeXT, a computer company from the 1990's, was a very good example of this and its innovations are still being felt today. Its technologies underly the iPod, Mac OS X, and the iPhone. Its hardware manufacturing advances were far ahead of its time.
> If you are saying that this project is not feasible, you are simply incorrect. Non-specialist observers can see that the technology to accomplish this is available. We may not yet know how it's going to work specifically, but we'll find engineers and programmers who want to make it work.
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#40You gotta love his sweet pic at the bottom... page - http://PDXCell.com pic - http://pdxcell.com/images/johnpratt.jpg
I think this is worth highlighting specifically: > By nature, most engineers try to tear projects down and explain why things won't work or are "too much work." It's often a consequence of how most of them can interpret minor hangups as major, nearly-insolvable problems. That's why you have to find those rare engineers, like Google engineers or Apple engineers, who have a respect for the arts and humanities. Those ar…
Step #1 to making sure no capable engineers ever work with you: presume to know their craft better than they do.