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This is so dumb. It wouldn't work to have a cult of startup founders. Cult members tend to be passive people who need someone to tell them what to do. But if you funded startups started by people like that, they'd all go off and immediately fail.
This is so dumb. It wouldn't work to have a cult of startup founders. Cult members tend to be passive people who need someone to tell them what to do. But if you funded startups started by people like that, they'd all go off and immediately fail.
I think the author has firmly placed his tongue in his cheek.
The best way to get him to stop is to ask him to stop trolling.
This is actually hilarious. I could go through and point out how many of these things are wrong due to outsider perspective, but I wouldn't want to degrade the humor quality of the post.
This is so dumb. It wouldn't work to have a cult of startup founders. Cult members tend to be passive people who need someone to tell them what to do. But if you funded startups started by people like that, they'd all go off and immediately fail.
Pay attention! Simon says you should perceive this post as "So Dumb".
>> Cult members tend to be passive people.
By definition, cult members of rapidly growing cults can't possibly be that passive or else their cults wouldn't be rapidly growing. And we all know the bits about Jehova's Witnesses showing up at your doorstep.
>> Who need someone to tell them what to do.
Would this qualify: paulgraham.com/articles, ie, "How Not to Die", "The Equity Equation", "The Hacker's Guide to Investors", "Why to Not Not Start a Startup", "The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups", "A Student's Guide to Startups", "How to Present to Investors", "Copy What You Like", "The Hardest Lessons for Startups", "How to Do What You Love", "How to Fund a Startup", "Ideas for Startups", "Writing, Briefly", "What You'll Wish You'd Known", "How To Make Wealth" ...
>> But if you funded startups like that, they'd all go off and immediately fail.
Not true! They'd all be encouraged to read "How Not To Die" and keep plugging away!
I've read a few of your emotional crackpot rants and they all say a lot more about you than YC or this site. You got some issues, Stan.
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How do you know for sure though? None of these groups ever started out by communicating their ultimate intent at first. Aum started as a humble local yoga club.
See, if you'd just left it at the original post, without trying to defend it, it would have been funny. Now you just look sad. Never mind. Being turned down isn't the end of the world; there's no reason you can't start up without YC funding.
This is so dumb. It wouldn't work to have a cult of startup founders. Cult members tend to be passive people who need someone to tell them what to do. But if you funded startups started by people like that, they'd all go off and immediately fail.
I think the author has firmly placed his tongue in his cheek.
Nothing wrong with a benevolent cult.
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I think the author has firmly placed his tongue in his cheek.
It's often hard to tell trolls from nuts. But in this case the signs point to nut: a large number of really long posts; lots of exclamation points; tinfoil hat stuff: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=52085
WE'RE illuminated. All those who disagree are just profane/nuts/trolls/useless eaters, etc.
Yes, definately tin-foil hat stuff:
http://soundwaves.usgs.gov/2006/09/research3.html
http://science.slashdot.org/article.pl?sid=06/02/12/0738233
http://discovermagazine.com/2007/feb/toxoplasma-gondii-cultu...
>> But in this case the signs point to nut: a large number of really long posts ...
Takes one to know one, Mr. "http://www.paulgraham.com/articles.html"
And of course, we all know that the human brain is definately NOT an electric system and is therefore immune to attempts to manipulate resonance, which is why TV for example does NOT induce narcotic trance states which makes the mind more susceptible to advertising and therefore leads us to conclude that advertising on TV definately does NOT work and so major companies are just wasting billions of dollars.
I am such a nut.
And of course my sometimes long posts have more to do with my being a nut than the simple fact that I may just not care to take the time to edit my thoughts. That must be it.