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Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends

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Re: Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends

#31
Everyone thinks their tattoo artist is the best.

Consumers don't care what their _friends_ recommend, they want to know what _most people_ recommend. Amazon reviews have a ton of value in aggregate. The more reviews, the more value. My friend's subjective recommendation of a Canon DSLR because he's already invested $2K in lenses? Not so much.

Also, how is this not exactly http://svpply.com, a much better execution of an item discovery site that sold to eBay over a year ago.

Re: Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends

#32
"Your browser is out of date" -no, actually it isn't... it's Firefox 17 on Linux. but, just for the fun of it, click on the Firefox icon. -"Hooray, your browser is up to date!" (with no updating because... the browser was already up to date). click back and refresh -"Your browser is out of date..." ok then...

Re: Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends

#33
yeah right. No legal info, not even a hint who is responsible for this. But wait, there's even more, you need a facebook account to attend the party. Oh boy, this thing is gonna storm everyone's heart for sure. Like Bitcoin will be the next all purpose currency.

Re: Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends

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What is this? Social meets ecommerce meets meteor? This whole site is like you took a buzzword pipe bomb and set it off in a geocities data center. A+? What is he trying to do, get listed first in the internet phone book? I guarantee you his pitch involves a lot of lofty talk about consumer and social big data. There's a whole lot of synergy going on here! That being said I obviously wish him the best of luck.

As another commenter pointed out, if a celebrity wasn't behind this it wouldn't be getting much attention. What a sad direction things are going. Celebrities want in on this piece of pie now... suddenly michaelochurch's forebodings about 'VC-istan' all seem very relevant.

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Re: Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends

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post #16

What is this? Social meets ecommerce meets meteor? This whole site is like you took a buzzword pipe bomb and set it off in a geocities data center. A+? What is he trying to do, get listed first in the internet phone book? I guarantee you his pitch involves a lot of lofty talk about consumer and social big data. There's a whole lot of synergy going on here! That being said I obviously wish him the best of luck.

As another commenter pointed out, if a celebrity wasn't behind this it wouldn't be getting much attention. What a sad direction things are going. Celebrities want in on this piece of pie now... suddenly michaelochurch's forebodings about 'VC-istan' all seem very relevant.

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Re: Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends

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post #27
post #16

What is this? Social meets ecommerce meets meteor? This whole site is like you took a buzzword pipe bomb and set it off in a geocities data center. A+? What is he trying to do, get listed first in the internet phone book? I guarantee you his pitch involves a lot of lofty talk about consumer and social big data. There's a whole lot of synergy going on here! That being said I obviously wish him the best of luck.

As another commenter pointed out, if a celebrity wasn't behind this it wouldn't be getting much attention. What a sad direction things are going. Celebrities want in on this piece of pie now... suddenly michaelochurch's forebodings about 'VC-istan' all seem very relevant.

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Re: Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends

#37
post #27
post #16

What is this? Social meets ecommerce meets meteor? This whole site is like you took a buzzword pipe bomb and set it off in a geocities data center. A+? What is he trying to do, get listed first in the internet phone book? I guarantee you his pitch involves a lot of lofty talk about consumer and social big data. There's a whole lot of synergy going on here! That being said I obviously wish him the best of luck.

As another commenter pointed out, if a celebrity wasn't behind this it wouldn't be getting much attention. What a sad direction things are going. Celebrities want in on this piece of pie now... suddenly michaelochurch's forebodings about 'VC-istan' all seem very relevant.

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Re: Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends

#38
post #27
post #16

What is this? Social meets ecommerce meets meteor? This whole site is like you took a buzzword pipe bomb and set it off in a geocities data center. A+? What is he trying to do, get listed first in the internet phone book? I guarantee you his pitch involves a lot of lofty talk about consumer and social big data. There's a whole lot of synergy going on here! That being said I obviously wish him the best of luck.

As another commenter pointed out, if a celebrity wasn't behind this it wouldn't be getting much attention. What a sad direction things are going. Celebrities want in on this piece of pie now... suddenly michaelochurch's forebodings about 'VC-istan' all seem very relevant.

I am not sure that I see the connection to VC-istan. This is a website that was posted on HackerNews, not a funding announcement declaring that all of the coolest VCs pumped tens of millions of dollars into the startup of a follow celebrity. If anything, the comments seem pretty negative and dismissive, despite the celebrity behind this.

Re: Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends

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post #27
post #16

What is this? Social meets ecommerce meets meteor? This whole site is like you took a buzzword pipe bomb and set it off in a geocities data center. A+? What is he trying to do, get listed first in the internet phone book? I guarantee you his pitch involves a lot of lofty talk about consumer and social big data. There's a whole lot of synergy going on here! That being said I obviously wish him the best of luck.

As another commenter pointed out, if a celebrity wasn't behind this it wouldn't be getting much attention. What a sad direction things are going. Celebrities want in on this piece of pie now... suddenly michaelochurch's forebodings about 'VC-istan' all seem very relevant.

Ashton Kutcher's been an angle investor in startups for as long as Hacker News has existed. Both began in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Kutcher#Investments

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