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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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