Calacanis: Collapsing Economy Will Kill 50%-80% Of Startups

Re:Calacanis: Collapsing Economy Will Kill 50%-80% Of Startups by ojbyrne on Sunday September 28, 2008 @02:08AM (#317461)

This seems like most things Calacanis writes, there's about 3 lines of argument, and 200 lines of self-promotion. He manages to get Mahalo, Silicon Alley Insider, TechCrunch50 and his BA of Psychology into the piece. But my favorite part is how the Holocaust is used as a leadin to his experiences in the first bubble.

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Re:Calacanis: Collapsing Economy Will Kill 50%-80% Of Startups by songism on Sunday September 28, 2008 @07:14AM (#317557)

Wow, you're right. I wish my brain had a better crap filter.

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Re:Calacanis: Collapsing Economy Will Kill 50%-80% Of Startups by michaelneale on Sunday September 28, 2008 @05:03AM (#317528)

Perhaps the mention of the Holocaust would speed the descent towards Godwins law in any rebuttals to his blog post ;)

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Re:Calacanis: Collapsing Economy Will Kill 50%-80% Of Startups by alaskamiller on Sunday September 28, 2008 @04:40AM (#317519)

It's 5000 word treatise on name dropping.

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Re:Calacanis: Collapsing Economy Will Kill 50%-80% Of Startups by omouse on Sunday September 28, 2008 @12:09PM (#317641)

So it's a typical arts/humanities paper. His GPA must be through the roof!

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Re:Calacanis: Collapsing Economy Will Kill 50%-80% Of Startups by jasoncalacanis on Sunday September 28, 2008 @05:03PM (#317831)

i do not reference the holocaust in reference to the first bubble. i reference Victor Frankl and his experience developing logotherapy during the Holocaust and I specifically mention the two things are not comparable. Fine if you don't agree with my position, but please don't make stuff up. best jason

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Re:Calacanis: Collapsing Economy Will Kill 50%-80% Of Startups by ojbyrne on Sunday September 28, 2008 @05:31PM (#317845)

I never said "reference", I said "used as a leadin." Though, really its pretty well the same. I wanted to go check the document again to see if I was being unfair, but apparently it's a case of "...if you can't stand the heat." - "Post has been deleted by request of the author"

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