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Parody Color Pitch Deck
- monsterru 16y agohttp://imgur.com/sIwtt http://imgur.com/sIwtt
- alexgandy 16y ago"ACT NOW. Supplies are limited to 16,700,000." Fucking genious.
- DanielBMarkham 16y agoThis is an incredibly viral piece of promotional content. Awesome job, guys.
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- MatthewPhillips 16y agoWhere do I flattr this?
- Klonoar 16y agoThis is the best thing in 2011 by far. I enjoy the fact that more people are seemingly calling bullshit on this industry, it kind of needs a dose of realism.
- ancornwell 16y agoIts hard to get a dose of realism when you live in California!
- Alex3917 16y agoI'm not so sure. According to Forrester, the average American will use 187 different photo sharing services by 2016. It seems like this could be a good chance to get in on the ground floor.
- kirpekar 16y agoStartup Idea: Do a better job than Forrester
- joejohnson 16y ago187 different photo sharing services?! I think that's a gross over estimation... I bet I'll use closer to 10-20 by 2016.
- jerf 16y agoNo no, you missed the point. It's not that 187 photo sharing services will exist, it is that each American will personally use, on average, 187 photo sharing services. About a thousand will exist. Forrester also projects that Scoble will be the top user on all of them.
- mhb 16y agoWhy would anyone believe that number? It sounds insane.
- jeffclark 16y agoI'm going to post this up on Path for my friend to see!
- giu 16y agoI just Google Waved it!
- blhack 16y agoNot location aware, less deals than a groupon. Lame.
- lancefisher 16y agoSlide 10: "locquanintances"
- chriswesallen 16y agoI love how the backlash of this app racing through the web. I'm not sure if this one bad investment is a horseman of the startups apocalypse but I think the valuation is definitely wayyyy off. I still wish them the best but until this thing hits critical mass I don't see myself using it.... Maybe that was the plan all along.....Get alot of hype and backlash at a crappy app...get alot of users willing to try it since it sucks soo much...BAM...critical mass => the app now has value??
- artmageddon 16y agoI think the guy who wrote the "I'm Rich" iPhone app is salivating at the thought of this. (to be fair, the Color service will certainly be more useful)
- zrgiu 16y agoall that could be said by a lot of startups. After the somewhat unexpected success of twitter, facebook and all that social crap, all investors are afraid of missing out on the next opportunity. Thus, artificially increasing the market and inflating the "bubble"
- yannickmahe 16y agoI have money, may I invest a lot of it in your company?
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- giu 16y agoThe team will consist of rockstars and gurus, but no ninjas and pirates? Yer going to be doomed to failure, arrrr!
- petervandijck 16y agoA guru is someone who tells others what to do, having long since achieved all his own goals. Who'd want those in a startup?
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- die_sekte 16y agoThe gurus are imported from the future. I.e. the gurus already solved your problem and now help their past selves.
- bioinformatics 16y agoI felt the lack of kick-ass features. In fact, I vehemently felt that.
- benvanderbeek 16y agoYeah that's what I was thinking, no way I would invest in those dudes, w/o any ninjas. Get real bro.
- Kilimanjaro 16y agoI pressed the green button at the end and nothing happened! Where do I send the check? Don't want to be left out!
- dstein 16y agoThis sounds a lot better than those n-tier scalable e-business solutions they were hawking a decade ago.
- ramchip 16y agoBut will it leverage my team's core synergies and bring a critical competitive advantage to take us to the next level?
- revorad 16y agoNot just that, it will take us to the future faster. Citation: http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/03/24/sequoia-to-color-labs-not-since-google-have-we-seen-this/ http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2011/03/24/sequoia-to-co...
- nlogn 16y agoDibs on the color #80881E
- cpeterso 16y agoIronically, the Name That Color website reports the name of color #80881E is Trendy Green! http://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/#80881E http://chir.ag/projects/name-that-color/#80881E
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- sant0sk1 16y agoYou had me at Mr. Belding. Where do I send my money?!
- jorisw 16y agoThe link on the final slide is a paypal link.
- jedsmith 16y agoHello, my name is Ms. Connie Jones . I am from SILICON VALLEY . I have recently inherited a social program from deceased prime minister of SILICON VALLEY with valuation of USD 100,000,000,000 . Contact my barrister to arrange transfer of USD 41,000,000 to secure ownership
- giu 16y agoGuys, caution, this looks like some kind of fraud. Regards, a prince from Nigeria
- kmfrk 16y agoDEAR SIR/MADAM, There is nothing conspicuous about this.
- jedsmith 16y agoHow could I forget DEAR SIR/MADAM? Typing 419 scams is harder than I thought.
- RyanMcGreal 16y agoAs a social experiment, I want to start addressing emails to people I know with the salutation, "BELOVED IN CHRIST ,"
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- gjm11 16y agoI want to know what they're doing with those 77,216 other colours they're hoarding.
- elspinko 16y agofreemium.
- graceyang 16y agoI have a serious question: why do people get upset at bubbles? Is it jealousy that others are getting investment or flipping their companies where you perceive little value? I'm not asking to be a bitch - just curious cause i feel some of those emotions myself but I rationally know that they are counterproductive. Shouldn't we be happy for our startup brethren? Does color's funding hurt you (or the industry?). I imagine all this froth is serving to make it easier for worthy people to get investment, raising developer salaries and other generally good things. Would appreciate serious feedback.
- jedsmith 16y agoRecalling the .com bubble, when the bottom falls out there is a lot of collateral damage, and not just to the players involved. Those of us on the sidelines and not involved in the idea-investment-flip cycle will suffer when the industry inevitably implodes upon itself. Facebook's valuation, specifically, has a lot of echoes to the past. http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Aftermath http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Dot-com_bubble#Aftermath briefly mentions the ripple effect on programming jobs. As a result, there tends to be some animosity toward watching the cycle repeat itself.
- graceyang 16y agoI was too young to experience the job market post the first dot-com bubble but I would argue that if you're in a job that is going to suffer from the collapse of this current bubble, you're most likely currently benefiting from the bubble already. If not, the collateral damage should be relatively low. Would a 37signals, patio11's BCC really be affected by a crash of this current investment bubble? Probably not.
- jedsmith 16y ago> I was too young to experience the job market post the first dot-com bubble but I would argue that if you're in a job that is going to suffer from the collapse of this current bubble, you're most likely currently benefiting from the bubble already. A good point, but with respect to the .com bubble, Internet commerce's crash also affected the entire economy as well as ancillary companies in the IT sector. So I'm not sure that I necessarily agree; I work for a hosting company, and all of these bubble companies need hosting. You can see where A meets B, there.
- jpastika 16y agoYou had me at slide #2. Seriously though, how many "social"...excuse me "elastic" networks do people need to be a part of? I'm one of those weird people who doesn't care that my "friend", whom I've never actually met or spoken a single word to, is getting ready to brush her teeth (yes, I know she is probably a he). With Color in particular, I don't understand how sharing photos with people who are within eye sight is interesting considering you are seeing the same thing!?!? The presentation of Color is slick, but from a usability aspect, the video looked very confusing. Admittedly I haven't tried using the app since no one I've talked to about it has installed it and the app store description clearly states "Warning: Don't use Color alone". I personally hold nothing against the Color team for taking the money, but VCs COME ON! Even if VCs are investing in apps like this in hopes of a Facebook or Google acquisition, $41,000,000 seems ridiculous. Then again, I'm just a developer hoping someday I'll create something that someone thinks is worth a buck.
- aeden 16y agoI fully expected that some part of your app would involve porn. In fact I think by using a .xxx you're obligated to include porn...well, at least you should be obligated. Add porn, raise the round to 80 mil and we have a deal.
- noelsequeira 16y agoReminds me of a tweet by Angus Davis I stumbled upon a couple of months back. Amazing how many brilliant minds and millions of dollars have been applied to enable people to share photos.
- WesleyJohnson 16y agoOkay, I'm confused. I get what the app is about and I get that this is just a product pitch, but what do I actually get if I donate?
- mrcharles 16y agoThis damn thing reads like a Better Off Ted Veridian Dynamics intro. edit: Or the Jabberywocky presentation:
- kevinherron 16y agoI just finished watching both seasons of Better Off Ted... I can't believe they canceled that show :( It was absolutely HILARIOUS!
- gruseom 16y agoThis is a very low-quality post and an even lower-quality thread. Stop to think. Sequoia have the best track record in the industry. Is it likely they're completely fucking stupid? Because that's what follows if these snarky comments have merit. Man am I thankful I have something awesome to do with the rest of my day.
- JarekS 16y agoI'm sorry - do you think that people on Wall Street were stupid when they were creating CDS and pumping huge speculation bubble around subprime mortgages? I think that we have enough evidence that smart people make mistakes - actually much bigger and more expensive mistakes then anyone could have expected.
- pluies_public 16y agoWhat mistake in Wall Street? They were bailed out. They're even better off than before.
- pg 16y agoThe two cases are different. The guys manufacturing credit default swaps had someone to sell them to. But (unlike in the 90s) there is no one buying lame startups for billions of dollars.
- msy 16y agoIf they flip or IPO this joke before it all goes wrong they'll make money. Doesn't mean it isn't a mockery, it just means they're riding the bubble.
- pg 16y agoYeah, I agree with you. This is the kind of thread that makes me worry about HN.
- josh33 16y agoIt's time's like these I refer back to my favorite HackerNews comment of all time: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2133161 http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=2133161
- zaidf 16y agoMore likely, this Colors app is probably a very, very tiny part of what they really got funded for. Conclusion: no one really knows what they got funded for. Sure, a stealth company getting 40M in funding is bad; but getting 40M for an app called Colors is what's got people ticking.
- Apocryphon 16y agoI've read Halting State before. This is a secret government operation! The mobile photo social sharing app is just a cover for the Dept. of Homeland Security to prevent terrorists from acquiring our nation's coupons!
- nickmolnar2 16y agoI'm gonna play devil's advocate here. Don't bet against a world-class hustler who can also build cool shit. And that's Bill Nguyen. Let's remember how Lala came to be. He built a service for swapping physical CDs, which promised to make sure that every album ever recorded made its way onto Bittorrent (since someone could rip and flip an album that had never been encoded for <$1). He managed to use that as leverage on the record labels to give him extremely permissive licensing for the Lala streaming service, in exchange for shutting down the CD swapping business. I've been involved in content negotiations with record labels, and they do not give up ground easily. Not even Apple seem to be able to get that far...and they're Apple. Then, he managed to get Sequoia to give their highest-ever pre-launch funding round. Sequoia isn't known for being a pack of dummies. Color has probably spent less than 10% of that round so far. There's a billion dollar market somewhere in this mobile photo sharing thing (I can't see it yet, but I can smell it), and I wouldn't be shocked if he's the one to cash in on it. Color has an accomplished team, and enough cash to make plenty of mistakes. He might have used every buzzword on earth to raise the round, but it worked, and now he's got plenty of gas in the tank to build something genuinely disruptive. And if Lala is any indication, he knows how to disrupt markets and build tight products (Lala was at least 2 years ahead of its time as a product). While Color app might sound like it was created by pasting together TechCrunch and FastCompany articles, this is only the beginning for them. Color is clearly in it for the long haul.
- tylerrooney 16y agoI second your thought. Nguyen has a crazy track record. He sold OneBox in 2000 for $850M (I realize that's insane-o bubble money), then started Seven (which is used by pretty much every carrier I can think of), and then sold LaLa to Apple for $80M.
- rebelidealist 16y ago"There's a billion dollar market somewhere in this mobile photo sharing thing" Where will the billion dollar come from? Getting paid to take pictures next to McDonalds?
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- devin 16y agoVery funny. I especially enjoyed the wheelbarrows of money slide. I have one lagging question I can't seem to find an answer for: Where can I register a .xxx domain?
- allending 16y agoKind of disappointed in the lack of Porn in the pitch, that is at least a multiplier of 10x. Having said that: Where do I sign up?
- Apocryphon 16y agoI just listened to the Richter Scales' "Here Comes Another Bubble" last week. I would repost it as a thread, but I'm not sure how well it'll fare, so here it is on all its glory. http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=I6IQ_FOCE6I When was the song released? December of 2007.
- tedsbardella 16y agoA dive is a female version of a hustler, of a hustler, of a, of a hustler