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Obvious and unsustainable? I find failure very inspirational. The whole point is to learn from the mistakes of others. If you won't take that bit of advice, I don't know what to say. Keep reading that Elon Musk five time champion biography.

Now that Facebook CPMs are dropping (because major brand advertisers are pausing spend), the snake oil salesman are back.

There's a hilarious Facebook ad where you can invest in a COVID-19 telemedicine startup. The doctor in her office is tending to a sick patient. Through a laptop. And they both are wearing heavy masks for the laptop session.

Maybe study interesting stories about failures instead of seeking inspirational exit homilies. 90% of them are random walk bullshit, 10% are serious and deep.

Butterfield hasn't graduated to Advanced Dungeons & Dragons yet? About time.

True, but everyone used "virii" on downloadable sections of hacker BBSes from the 80s/90s. It's a hard habit to break.

I agree. It just seems like basically giving out their email addresses is a bridge too far, even though it's not that hard to figure them out.

What if this data was clustered not just by top industries invested in, but by thesis and ethos?

I think this is cool. Not going to bother anyone just yet. For any VCs reading this, do you like this sort of thing or is it intrusive? Feels like your inbox would get powerbombed with shitty dealflow.

I had a weird positive experience with Google lately. An account rep messed up all my AdWords (I still call it that) campaigns and blew $900 on worthless mistargeted clicks on Christmas Eve 2018. My request for refund was denied, so I chargebacked and got banned (who cares).

I need to use AdWords again next month so I reactivated the account and asked for another appeal. They immediately deleted the $900 debt and unbanned me.

>the Ivy League (everyone knows that's just luck of the draw

> the "second-tier" schools (Carnegie-Mellon, Rensselaer, Duke, Cornell, etc.)

I love this. And I'm not putting you down, I didn't know Cornell was an Ivy until I was 22. It reminds of the funny jokes at Andy Bernard's expense on The Office.

How do the Reddit and Imgur apps get away with distributing porn and serving ads against it on the App Store? Maybe it was just a different time in the Tumblr era?

Je vous souhaite bonne chance!

The whole system is rigged. It always has been. And I don't mean the last twenty years. Want to invade Germania? You better know a great banker. Want to be the first on the block to buy a couple of these new things called printing presses? Better know a well-connected banker.

Interesting that no one has mentioned the real reason. It's because you need butts in seats. In an office. A real office. Preferably within a half hour drive of Sand Hill Road or Silicon Alley. Then you have visual and social proof for future investment. Moreover, FTEs are assets. Salable assets. Not one by one, but as a collective. Assets for an exit.

Early Flickr was really good at troll containment: https://mastersofscale.com/caterina-fake-build-a-more-human-...

Yeah. I've taken a few breaks on RDR2 where I put the shotties away and just go fishing for a couple days. So peaceful. I haven't played in nine months, need to fire the Xbox back up again.

I think you are in the right here. If one is trolling an audience of one, it's not really the same dopamine hit as Tweeting a death threat to a Senator that thousands see. It gets boring quick. Also, troll management as a problem is sort of like the "What if I burn $100,000 on AWS in one month?" problem. It's a good problem to have, it means you have traction, and with patience and focus the trolls can be steamrolled.

Thank you for making a beautiful and thoughtful product in a vain and thoughtless age. They are few and far between these days. Also, .app domains rule.

Thank you Tom. Always appreciate an original WFMU link. The number of times they've had their content ripped off and repackaged..

This happens with splinter groups within record collector circles. I've seen LP collectors say "I would never go to the Allentown show, it's strictly 45s" and the 45 guys pick up a Public Enemy LP and you can kind of see on their face they're thinking "this is cool, but I would never buy it"

Yeah, I think you're right, I had trouble following the article.

You're right. A no investment incubator would kind of suck but there are pay to play incubators?! Reverse investing? Makes no sense, but your scenario would be better than that. Nothing wrong with a Harvard scholarship.

Salesperson for commission is fine. They either work really hard for the LinkedIn credit and don't sell anything or they crush and sell and make money for you and them. I sold a $10,000 deal for a certain comedy adjacent startup because he said a certain vendor could not be closed. When the founder asked me what a fair commission would be I said mail me a t-shirt, sometimes it's just for fun.

edit: prospect, not vendor

I never knew grindr did that, that's awesome.

It's still good but it seems more like focusing on publicly traded companies. I'm not bashing them, I just don't see the "weird Internet" or "weird startup" content anymore. But then Quibi ships and you see nothing but Quibi for a few days. It's just not how I remembered TC.

also http://pricepally.com

More like.. Closeddoor. (•_•) / ( •_•)>⌐■-■ / (⌐■_■)

Can I ask a stupid question?' I kind of did a Rip Van Winkle and stopped reading Techcrunch for eight years. Back in the day I would email Alexia and she would take the story tip and write a cool article. Is TC 100% pay to play nowadays? I know so many people who submit press releases to them and they get auto-deleted. What gives?

This exists already in the white hot Lagos startup scene. It is called Pricepally: https://pricepally.com

Oh, you beat me to it. I was interviewing a far too senior engineer at lunch in Union Square and asked him what the funniest HN thread of all time was. He immediately knew it was the Houston/Dropbox one.

Some dude in the thread was like "it would be a trivial task to stitch together storage from five Gmail accounts and outdo your so called product".

This is cool. I might try one, even at the $10 price point. Although, that's the price of one drink at a real comedy club, so it is kind of a bargain. I would love to see something like this on Oculus.