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Re:Dear Silicon Valley: America’s fallen out of love with you by jklein11 on Monday October 09, 2017 @12:37PM (#15435299)
Can you explain to me what this difference is?
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Re:Dear Silicon Valley: America’s fallen out of love with you by Clubber on Monday October 09, 2017 @12:42PM (#15435352)
>ideas that seem dumb and ideas that are dumb.

The first makes money, the second doesn't. :)

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Re:Dear Silicon Valley: America’s fallen out of love with you by balls187 on Monday October 09, 2017 @02:20PM (#15436172)
Agreed.

There are dumb ideas, and dumb ideas that are poorly executed.

Juciero is clearly the latter.

But just because an idea is dumb, doesn't mean it won't be successful in the market.

Two of my favorite satires on this point.

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=t28ZB1t6gg8

and

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sDEL4Ty950Q

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Re:Dear Silicon Valley: America’s fallen out of love with you by Clubber on Monday October 09, 2017 @03:33PM (#15436752)
This was hysterical:

http://www.cc.com/video-clips/9nzwjt/the-colbert-report-vess...

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Re:Dear Silicon Valley: America’s fallen out of love with you by taysic on Monday October 09, 2017 @10:36PM (#15438889)
I know people who bought the Juicero so how do you know it didn't have the potential to make money? That is a gamble that is up to investors to decide. A niche product can still be very profitable.
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Re:Dear Silicon Valley: America’s fallen out of love with you by 123e1daAdfafsdf on Tuesday October 10, 2017 @01:19PM (#15443555)
Hindsight. Juicero is so obviously a stupid failure now that we know it is. We can't even imagine a world where it wasn't stupid.

Now try to remember a tech/company you thought was stupid that became a massive success. For me, I remember thinking wifi was stupid -- I was a power user, laptops were grossly underpowered circa 1998. Why would anyone need wireless internet on a desktop?

I keep that story in mind because it keeps me humble about hindsight bias.

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