Hello. I am an investor. I'd like to contact you privately about this "Uber For Dogs" idea.
Well hello! My business plan is to become a unicorn by Jan next year. There is a hot market for dogs wanting rides to the park while their owners are too busy. For the seed round of just $50M you get 29% of the company.
First off I'll need to move to San Fran then rent an open floor office, preferably in a warehouse-like building with red brick walls. Then I'll hire 20 young people, preferably hipsters, with lots of energy. Experience not imporant, as long as they look good in hoodies and jeans, and know how to look busy typing and pretend to collaborate with each other all the time (because it looks good in pictures). Also must know how to correctly use latest memes. The tech stack will be all Go with reactive interfaces. Mostly microservices, nested inside lightweight Docker containers.
So there, welcome to the future (I'll send a link soon where to wire the funds).
Re:Before Growth
by ianamartin on Saturday January 16, 2016 @04:47AM
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Funniest damn thing I've seen all day.
Well played, sir.
Yap saw that first hand. Someone read too much HN, wanted to run a startup. They didn't even have a good idea, but that didn't stop them. However, the was a minor problem and that was they needed investors.
Well as it turns out, if there are investors who are even more stupid than the founders and are willing to bankroll that, it's not all bad. Just take their money. Convince them you could be the next Facebook, look at the billions Facebook made!
So the startup is just a proxy to take investors' money, and play CEO for a while, and then when it fails it becomes a resume line "CEO at Uber For Dogs inc."
And yeah they didn't really have an idea, they just sort of came up with on, basically what they thought investors would like. For example, say, investors liked dogs, so the idea he came up with was Uber for dogs.