145 karma · joined January 24, 2012
Dumb idea all round to act like this, and good luck to IKEAHackers.net
I managed to export and filter 10,119 spam comments and started playing around with the data in Excel to see what insights I could learn from blog spam left from the 31st July 2011 until the 12th January 2014.
So ummm none of Google own products are featured at the top of each search category? Most of the time this is not a good user experience but users and businesses have no real option!
If your business can generate cash and support itself there needs to be no reason for a large VC cheque that will add extra costs and stress to your business. Just as the article talks about a Taxi business getting VC, there are a number of small web startups that will just never return the capital quick enough to keep their head above water.
I've also seen investors with personal interests place roadblocks as they want you to use a particular platform, their services or a related company they own for your outsourcing. While this can work very well it often seems to work the opposite and slowly bleed the business to death as the investors draw out capital.
Many businesses don't operate on double digit growth figures and I don't believe it's sustainable in most cases to expect all businesses to grow like Twitter or Facebook.