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This is definitely a bubble

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11 pointslaurenceputra14 comments

Well, judging by what I keep hearing about who gets funded,I would say she stands a good chance. The reason I say this is because I keep hearing that investors invest in people, not ideas. So, if you ignore her idea and focus on the person, you have an assertive person that believes passionately in their idea and can talk the socks of the people in the room. I know I would like a person like this in my company (perhaps without the hippy vibes though). Even though most of us believe her idea is absurd, I bet, like me, everyone watched the whole presentation. And that's impressive.

In this case the YouTube comments are actually more intelligent than the video.

This isn't an indicator of a bubble; it's just that high-strength crazy has found out what seed funding is.

but they actually listened to her all the way, and as one comment said, some sites claimed that she might already have gotten funding.

Okay. The last part is really bothering me.

the funny thing is that she thinks vintage air sells.

Wait... I must be having hangover or something, but it sounds like they ask for money to fund startup that sells jars of air for $10,000... I can't figure out - is this REALLY for real?

uh, as far as i know, yea. i even went to google her up

Same. This is their home page: http://sharetheair108.com/

Some sites say that the home page will be launched after they cash out the check they have supposedly already received for their startup. This must be a big joke.

yea, i saw that page.

they received funding? O.O, this is really a joke.

Don't dismiss this so quickly. There are a lot of people from the culture that she is coming from who take her claims about "good energy" and so on at face value, and she can definitely speak to that market in a way that none of the suit-and-tie people in that crowd could ever hope to.

ok, i'm not from the US, and I don't really know what's this 'good energy' you're talking about. Care to explain?

The cultural movement is sometimes called "new age" and is associated with portions of the hippy movement of the 60s, particularly those that fetishized or otherwise adopted Hindu and Buddhist mysticism.

The energy she speaks of is somewhere between "ya know, like, energy" and this sort of thing: http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Energy_(esotericism).

Yeah, it sounds a bit crazy, but its a market. Having been around this kind of person a bit, I can tell you they'd drop money on air from somewhere pure. A hundred bucks or more is too high, but cut that to $20-$100 and you could at least pull off a decent lifestyle business in the right part of the country, especially with a personality like her's.

Judging by the landing page, she's not just an airhead. If she can get the message out and get online orders flowing, it could be a decent chunk of change per month.

It's not gonna be the next Twitter, but it would probably pay for itself in a few years if you paid for her and a couple of her friends to go on some air gathering expeditions.

I think she is on to something. Sorry, lose the "to" in that last sentence.

this is ludicrous...

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