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Historical Perspective: At Least This Time Around We Don’t Have Incubators For Incubators

• mixmax 17y ago
  Quis incubatiet ipsōs incubatis? (who will incubate the incubators) Freely after Quis custōdiet ipsōs custōdēs? (who will guard the guards (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3F http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Quis_custodiet_ipsos_custodes%3...) :-)
  • lsb 17y ago
    Quis incubet ipsos incubatores? Nice try though (I'm sure Juvenal would be proud) but custodiet is just a plain-old future, and incubo incubare declined the same way is incubet. See http://nodictionaries.com/novifex?text=Quis+incubet+ipsos+incubatores http://nodictionaries.com/novifex?text=Quis+incubet+ipsos+in... for details.
    • mixmax 17y ago
      Thanks for the clarification, I have to admit that m latin is rusty. Or rather it's guesstimated :-)
• vaksel 17y ago
  why is petfood and grocery delivery always brought up as some loser idea that is stupid to invest in? I mean seriously at least they provided a real service/product
  • davidw 17y ago
    What was stupid about it was the scale with which both things were launched. Pet food, for instance, is the sort of thing that could easily have started quite small and grown as needs be, rather than having millions of dollars dumped into it. Webvan wasn't just grocery delivery, it was grocery storage too. In big, huge, expensive (california real estate) warehouses (refrigerated, to boot, IIRC).