Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products through friends

Re:Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products th... by pvnick on Friday December 13, 2013 @07:47PM (#6903897)

What is this? Social meets ecommerce meets meteor? This whole site is like you took a buzzword pipe bomb and set it off in a geocities data center. A+? What is he trying to do, get listed first in the internet phone book? I guarantee you his pitch involves a lot of lofty talk about consumer and social big data. There's a whole lot of synergy going on here!

That being said I obviously wish him the best of luck.

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Re:Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products th... by aaronbrethorst on Friday December 13, 2013 @07:54PM (#6903930)

His twitter handle is "aplusk", as in [A]shton [plus] [K]utcher". "A+" would imply the best, and also suggests who's behind it. I think it's a clever name.

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Re:Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products th... by selmnoo on Friday December 13, 2013 @08:14PM (#6904040)

As another commenter pointed out, if a celebrity wasn't behind this it wouldn't be getting much attention.

What a sad direction things are going. Celebrities want in on this piece of pie now... suddenly michaelochurch's forebodings about 'VC-istan' all seem very relevant.

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Re:Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products th... by graeme on Friday December 13, 2013 @08:55PM (#6904175)

Ashton Kutcher's been an angle investor in startups for as long as Hacker News has existed. Both began in 2007.

http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Ashton_Kutcher#Investments

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Re:Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products th... by lpolovets on Friday December 13, 2013 @08:47PM (#6904148)

I am not sure that I see the connection to VC-istan. This is a website that was posted on HackerNews, not a funding announcement declaring that all of the coolest VCs pumped tens of millions of dollars into the startup of a follow celebrity. If anything, the comments seem pretty negative and dismissive, despite the celebrity behind this.

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Re:Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products th... by pvnick on Friday December 13, 2013 @08:20PM (#6904055)

I've always loved reading what michaelochurch has to say. I generally make a conscious effort to stay optimistic, but I see a lot of truth in what he writes.

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Re:Ashton Kutcher launches A+: discover the best products th... by benguild on Friday December 13, 2013 @07:55PM (#6903938)

Looks like a more specific shot at Pinterest.

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