I'd hate to thinking that our dialog has downgraded to memes and TV show references. Regardless of appropriateness, it doesn't add information or opinion, it's just noise.
Well, I see two pictures and the words compare who's hotter instantly. It's for the lack of a better word a FaceMash, which itself is a clone of a few dozen other predecessors before it.
No further explanation needed. Your copy, however, needs work to compel me to bother spending 30 seconds to sign up and play with it.
No the features list was compelling, it is an interesting site. I just mean that when I first signed on, I didn't immediately "get" what it was about- maybe make the "who's hotter?" example from the 1st screenshot a bit more prominent or larger, because once you see that, the purpose of the site is self explanatory.
"Every Monday morning [Jobs] brings them together to review products and the challenges of designing and executing them... Four hours a week, fifty weeks a year, for twelve years equals 2,400 hours spent building mental and relationship capital by connecting the newest ideas of diverse brilliant and passionate minds."
I've been told before success is simple: you focus and you be patient. So yes, you too can be an "overnight" success lauded and dissected by millions around the world when you spend your whole life on it.
Seems you fancy yourself an iceberg hunter. You see just the tip and you seem to know everything underneath? How about you stop knocking other's hustle and focus on yours? You have to learn to let go of this immature angst; it will eat you alive and taint everything you do.
Sometimes people switch out from being CEO to being chairman because it's just more fun being the globe-trotting-jet-setting-lunching-with-Obama guy schmoozing and closing deals and partnerships than being the tedious micromanager.
Just saying.
But it's also fun to fantasize, speculate, and gossip about really rich and important people.
Sorry about that! Regarding switching elements, there should be a TOP button located at the top right of each element. We'll get this fixed as soon as the HN burst stops, I'm very sorry, Jerry.
I wish they would graduate Alexia to cover better stories. Give her some of those Glengerry Glen Ross leads, Michael and Erick, instead of making her trawl through Hacker News threads.
Other than the ironic name use, what's the point of throwing 460 words on this?
I remember Garry, like me, arrived early at the Y Combinator pre-party. He had long hair, kind of like every other Asian friend I had so I figured he must be really smart. Stanford smart.
I shook his hand and he introduced himself as getting an interview slot too. Naturally we conferred and compared notes. Mine was something weird, a scheduling software--we haven't decided yet. His was a photo blog. Well like a photo blog, but easier, the kicker is you only manage it through email.
Oh, I said. That sounds... interesting. Since I was young that was go-to answer for any pitch. The less he explained the more compelling it was. Blogging for your grandma, blogging that anyone can do, blogging that's accessible. I remember asking how long he's been working on it, he said for a few months. I smiled and said he's probably going to get funded.
I didn't, it was my fifth try and became my last.
Throughout the years Posterous' engineering skills, design skills, and marketing skills have made the platform really awesome. Reading his blog, learning his thought process, and seeing the passion he puts into his work, it's inspiring. Very inspiring.
Blogging for grandmas is such a good idea, it's carved a great niche amongst giants WordPress, Blogger, and Tubmlr, and it's growing as a company.
Our career paths took really drastic divergence but seeing what you've done in the past three years is one of the examples of the immense potential working in our little crazy world.
