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Re:How Not To Promote Your New Startup by jprattx on Saturday January 02, 2010 @06:34AM (#1027106)
I got new iPhone. Now what's next.

I got new Mac OS. Now what's next.

I read the Y Combinator news feed. Major drama from some nutjob who ruined his company and was a douchebag. Ha ha.

Cool. Now what's next.

I read the TechCrunch page. Now what's next.

What's Apple working on next?

Ok. What's Google working on next?

Ok, I found out. Now, what's next?

What does Tim O'Reilly say is the next thing?

Ok. What does Cory Doctorow say is the next thing?

Ok. What does Andy Baio's link blog say is the next thing?

Ok. What does Mashable have to say is the next thing?

[continue as nested loop: your wasted life on the computer]

Re:How Not To Promote Your New Startup by romland on Saturday January 02, 2010 @09:16AM (#1027217)
Not to wind you up further, but I think you mean "infinite loop".

I had never heard of fundable.com or you prior to the exposure initiated by this thread. I started looking up the all the background information I could and I tried (hard) to not pass undue judgment. The problem is not so much what others wrote about you or your business, the problem is what you wrote. In your messages you start (somewhat) rational and reasonable, albeit frustrated (for reasons anyone can understand). Then as you are coming to wrap-up of what you write, you say something that really makes me cringe. I don't know how or why you do it, but seriously, before you post something I urge you to sit on the text for a couple of hours before pressing that submit button.

Your name is attached to that shit.

(yeah yeah, feeding the troll, bbye karma -- should I have any)

Re:How Not To Promote Your New Startup by KirinDave on Saturday January 02, 2010 @03:20PM (#1027596)
Defend yourself online.

Ok. Defend yourself more online.

Ok. Wait, there are still some people who disagree?

Defend yourself online. Right!

Ah, not everyone yet agrees!

[continue as needed to staunch the hole in your ego]

Lot's of people fail at startups. That's actually the norm, despite the way that people perceive the market. Only the most asinine people would make fun of you for just not succeeding. But the difference between most people's attitude and your attitude: you seem to think that you did everything right, that everyone else conspired against you.

That kind of mindset is not the way to succeed in this business.