Re:Four Billion-Dollar Startups That Were Told Their Idea Wa...
by 11thEarlOfMar on Friday October 23, 2015 @02:04PM
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I first read about Twitter in this [0] Wired article in 2007.
I admit that I pretty much agreed: "pointless email on steroids." "You can't say anything in such a short message... So why do it at all?"
There must be an aphorism to do with obvious solutions to obvious problems are already solved. So the hidden gems are the inverse: Counter-intuitive solutions to problems we didn't know we had.
Re:Four Billion-Dollar Startups That Were Told Their Idea Wa...
by benologist on Friday October 23, 2015 @02:05PM
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"Four random negative comments selected from techcrunch and twitter".
You can find such commentary on anything from startups to movies or nutrition or blog posts trying to force-fit a popular narrative, it's just a byproduct of opinion intersecting with literacy.
I admit that I pretty much agreed: "pointless email on steroids." "You can't say anything in such a short message... So why do it at all?"
There must be an aphorism to do with obvious solutions to obvious problems are already solved. So the hidden gems are the inverse: Counter-intuitive solutions to problems we didn't know we had.
[0] http://www.wired.com/2007/06/st-thompson-4/
You can find such commentary on anything from startups to movies or nutrition or blog posts trying to force-fit a popular narrative, it's just a byproduct of opinion intersecting with literacy.