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Half-Baked Product

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Re: Half-Baked Product

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Post by jodrellblank »

afandian wrote: post #35
moffkalast wrote: post #27

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I hope it's not the approach of using less water by not rinsing properly in the end, so people have to either eat soap or rinse everything manually afterwards, wasting far more water. I swear Bosch is so terrible at this.

The innovation here is clearly edible soap. And the 'less water' claim is technically correct, but it doesn't mention the decamethylcyclopentasiloxane. Just because it's complicated to spell, you understand.

from L'Affaire Siloxane? ( https://mceglowski.substack.com/p/laffaire-siloxane ) (subtitle: "How antiperspirant fumes nearly got NASA to evacuate the space station")

Re: Half-Baked Product

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Post by alias_neo »

clan wrote: post #10

This was such a funny and refreshing read. Especially to find on this VC fuelled forum. There was so much truth in this on a Dilbertesque level. If you can learn from this you are winning. I am not saying "VC bad". I am saying it is a sharp-edged tool which you need to wield with great care. This humorous piece really points out the pitfalls. Worth the read - do not just lurk here in the comment section (as I usually…

Interesting you found this funny. I didn't find it funny at all, my response at the end was somewhere between a sigh and a gasp.

- Mario

Re: Half-Baked Product

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Post by bravetraveler »

weli wrote: post #7
k7peak wrote: post #3

Earlier quoted context omitted.

I gave up, how did this make it to page 1 jeez.

I've been experimenting with writing longer-form content. I do agree the main point could be condensed a lot and I'm not the a great writer by far. This is kind of a rant and really cathartic for me to write after working more than 5 years on startups. Just wanted to share it.

Glad you did share, really enjoyed this... and I've never worked at a startup. Rings true to my hollowed corporate soul. The main difference: your peers might think they're founders; tend to forget they were acqui-hired.

Re: Half-Baked Product

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Post by phikappa »

I mean sure, but look, I will not make the same mistakes.

Also my context is totally different. And MY oven concept has none of the drawbacks of their oven and Claude tells me I'm definitely on to something.

I'm off to the notary to sign the docs for Oven.ai (got the domain for only 300k!!) See ya on my yacht!

Re: Half-Baked Product

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Post by mpetrovich »

The classic solution-in-search-of-a-problem.

If the founder had started by talking with people in the problem space, he could have discovered what problems were actually worth solving before investing any money and effort into a product.

Everything after that happened were downstream effects of creating something without a defensible reason why and for whom.

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