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I've always like reading Guy's material. He often has very thoughtful pieces with plenty of actionable advice.

That being said I'm not impressed with either of his 2 most recent startups, truemors.com and alltop.com.

I'm not sure if its the idea or the implementation--but neither jump out at me as significant. I guess I expect more from Guy considering he's a world-known VC/author/blogger.

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As much as I like Guy, I don't think Truemors or Alltop would have received as much attention as they have if they were built/marketed by anyone that didn't already have Guy's stature.

In other words, I wouldn't rely too heavily on these sites when considering "best practices" scenarios.

As much as you might not be keen on the guy, he proves that good implementation is more important than revolutionary ideas. Neither Truemors or Alltop are really ground breaking in what they're trying to do, but their implementations are pretty good.

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