Don’t Sell Out, Foursquare. Not Now. Not To Yahoo.

Re: Don’t Sell Out, Foursquare. Not Now. Not To Yahoo. by dnsworks on Monday April 19, 2010 @04:45AM (#1276343)

Because Arrington has successfully built and sold many companies, therefore enterpeneurs should really take his advice.. I mean he was really successful with .. Uhm .. oh and there was also .. uhm ....

This the "journalists" who tried extorting monies out of Twitter in exchange for not publishing illegally obtained material .. This is the guy who comments on others selling out? Really?

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Re: Don’t Sell Out, Foursquare. Not Now. Not To Yahoo. by zackattack on Monday April 19, 2010 @06:09AM (#1276414)

For the sake of argument:

Perhaps there is something to be said for his intuition, for he spends nearly all of his time evaluating startups. He successfully predicted the success of Mint. Also, Arrington co-founded Achex, sold for 32mm USD, as well as TechCrunch, which is one of the world's premiere news sites for technology.

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Re: Don’t Sell Out, Foursquare. Not Now. Not To Yahoo. by dnsworks on Wednesday April 21, 2010 @05:42AM (#1281735)

I don't mean to discount it, but I find it really hard to give weight to the bad companies that got bought out for inflated prices during the dot-com boom. I worked for enough of them to know how much luck and a gold-rush mentality was involed.

As for Mint .. I predicted it when I first got a beta invite, because it was awesome.

I predict that tomorrow the sky will be blue! Bow down before me when I am right!

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