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I'm not in SV, and very much outside the startup community in the rest of the world these days, especially since I no longer work in a coworking space. I have
by toomanybeersies 8y ago
I'm not in SV, and very much outside the startup community in the rest of the world these days, especially since I no longer work in a coworking space.
I have to say, some of these legitimately look like parodies, like something out of the Silicon Valley TV show. Emojer cannot be a legitimate company with real funding. It just can't.
- onion2k 8y agoEmojer cannot be a legitimate company with real funding. There's a very clear exit route to selling to a phone manufacturer that wants to add more "fun" functionality to its camera app..
- roadbeats 8y agoI honestly wish to have the skills of people who pitched and found investment for Emojer.
- Quarrelsome 8y ago> There's a very clear exit route to selling to a phone manufacturer I'm not sure if that counts as "very clear". If you have no means of keeping the dream alive through revenue then you're just treading water in the hope that someone will buy you. That sounds horrible. Its bearable in the window of something "game changing" or where you have a strong position in the market (e.g. YouTube) but this is neither.
- bobmarley1 8y agoMust be fun spending years in academia getting your Phd in Machine Learning and Computer Vision only to create an Emoji app. How much talent is being wasted on worthless trash like this??
- apabepa 8y agoThese kind of apps seemed popular a few years ago in China and mig still be. Saw this type of gifs in wechat frequently back then. Maybe animated gifs and stuffs in chats are more popular there but it might work to make some money from this.
- soneca 8y agoIt seems like you made an effort to find those companies to mock. On my first reading I was very impressed by how many health care startups are in the list, solving hard and important problems of society.