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As an entrepreneur, I became so disappointed with this article about 60% of the way through, that I had to stop reading. When the author started getting phone
by logicallee 11y ago
As an entrepreneur, I became so disappointed with this article about 60% of the way through, that I had to stop reading. When the author started getting phone calls on his burner phone from people wanting to hire his van, he should have manned up, stuck with this damn business, and written instead about bootstrapping. With stats like the ones he reported, he should have stuck with Freakin' Awesome Karaoke Express even if it meant moonlighting as a KJ and eventually backing into a seed round he never anticipated.
Seriously. Those facebook reviews sound authentic because those are real user stories just waiting to really happen. The real user queries prove it.
I'm so disappointed at those unfielded phone calls that I can't even bring myself to read any more. A business was born three months premature, and instead of nurturing it in neonatal intensive care, the author just let this beautiful creature die. :*(
- wanderfowl 11y agoThere it is, folks. The first "Pro-Life" argument to emerge from the "corporate personhood" metaphor. All downhill from here. Grab your popcorn.
- 811639047892938 11y agoThis comment is the best thing I've read on HN
- greggarious 11y agoOut of curiosity, why do you assume the author is male?
- logicallee 11y agoI'm not going to update my comment because it would look like I made the premature birth analogy due to the author's gender, which I literally had incorrectly assumed was male (so my comment and choice of analogy was absolutely not due to the author's gender). Sorry about the mistake/assumption. You asked why I made the mistake - no particular reason. (Though anecdotally I've heard males talk about these kinds of actions, while women business owners I know don't, in fact are principled about not buying fake reviews, likes, or twitter followers. The first paragraph also says "You might have seen a review on Yelp that said it’s perfect for a girl’s night out" which I read as a male stating it. Anyway I shouldn't have made the assumption.)
- t2015_08_25 11y agoOut of curiosity, why do you assume that because the author said 'he' that he projects that gender onto the author, as opposed to not actually knowing and choosing his own gender, as is common, or choosing a random gender, as is common? Are you one of those people who insists that everyone say "he/she" every single time they don't know? If so, then why don't you also demand that the person say "she/he" 50% of the time? With no more than a specified number of imbalances per time interval and instance interval? And no more than a specified change in number of imbalances per same? I only bring this up b/c you seem to grant yourself the title of auditor, so out of curiosity, I'd like to see if you can stand up to auditing yourself, or if you simply expect more out of others than you're able to give. My hypothesis is that you have no grounding or ability to generate introspective thought, just a little provocative scheme to grant yourself power opportunistically.
- logicallee 11y agoyou're coming down on my side, but I think this 3-paragraph tirade is a bit over the top... the comment you're replying to was 11 words, and also correct in that, yes, I had assumed the author was male.
- mratzloff 11y agoMaybe it's not his life's ambition to own and operate a truck that drives around to cater to screeching drunk people?
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- forgottenpass 11y agoTurn that frown upside down buddy, have I got some good news for you! Having read that article, you now know about the demand for karaoke vans and can go serve that market.