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This, I suspect, explains the absence of men. They are immune to the allure of this fantasy. They have evaluated the site on purely economic terms and found it

This, I suspect, explains the absence of men. They are immune to the allure of this fantasy. They have evaluated the site on purely economic terms and found it wanting. Yeah...men are so great at economic evaluation. Like my 2 startups that have netted be about $0.10 / hr for the hundreds of hours of my free time that I spent on them. I'd be waaaay richer if I had just been selling handmade beer coozies on Etsy.

req2 17y ago
You can't sell your beer cozy "company" like you can a successful startup.
- codahale 17y ago
  You can't sell your startup like you can a successful startup. (The odds of you having a successful startup are about that of you having a profitable beer cozy "company.")
  - Tichy 17y ago
    No because the odds for selling a beer cozy for a million $ is 0, but it is > 0 for the startup.
    - codahale 17y ago
      Ok, so this may come as a surprise to you, but technology startups are not the only way that people make money. Weird, I know. But true. These folks -- http://www.sportscanholder.com/ http://www.sportscanholder.com/ -- could sell their business for more than a million dollars.
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willhf 17y ago
True. This sentence discredits the entire article. Men never buy lottery tickets.
Tichy 17y ago
Well the startup gave you a chance at becoming a millionaire and have lots of women. I don't see that chance on etsy. There was an interesting bit (though a bit speculative) in "Why is sex fun" by Jared Diamond: it said that gathering was actually more effective than hunting. But men would hunt because if they came home with prey they were able to have a big party, share meat with neighbors and other women, and have a better chance at having more sex... As I said it was a bit speculative (I think - they even said so in the book), but it seems to fit startup life quite well.

req2 17y ago

You can't sell your beer cozy "company" like you can a successful startup.

codahale 17y ago
You can't sell your startup like you can a successful startup. (The odds of you having a successful startup are about that of you having a profitable beer cozy "company.")
- Tichy 17y ago
  No because the odds for selling a beer cozy for a million $ is 0, but it is > 0 for the startup.
  - codahale 17y ago
    Ok, so this may come as a surprise to you, but technology startups are not the only way that people make money. Weird, I know. But true. These folks -- http://www.sportscanholder.com/ http://www.sportscanholder.com/ -- could sell their business for more than a million dollars.
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willhf 17y ago

True. This sentence discredits the entire article. Men never buy lottery tickets.

Tichy 17y ago

Well the startup gave you a chance at becoming a millionaire and have lots of women. I don't see that chance on etsy. There was an interesting bit (though a bit speculative) in "Why is sex fun" by Jared Diamond: it said that gathering was actually more effective than hunting. But men would hunt because if they came home with prey they were able to have a big party, share meat with neighbors and other women, and have a better chance at having more sex... As I said it was a bit speculative (I think - they even said so in the book), but it seems to fit startup life quite well.