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for only $30/month we will troubleshoot your leaky colon
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Jan 14, 2015 21:07
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first bowel mover
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Stymie posted:for only $30/month we will troubleshoot your leaky colon buttplug of the month club membership included
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the related pro click https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DJklHwoYgBQ
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Jan 14, 2015 21:11
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if not for the adult swim title (and the sex offender notice) you could easily get 20 million from andreesen horowitz with this video
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heres my business plan to disrupt the soylent industry 1) buy canisters of powdered ensure in bulk 2) weigh out quarter-pound servings of powder into ziploc bags 3) ship those ziplocs to kickstarters/subscribers at a 1200% markup total r&d costs = $0, material is already fda-certified, a billion-dollar pharmaceutical company stands behind the product, margins upwards of 500% - it's a better arrangement than soylent on every possible level wheres my $100 million in vc money?
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duTrieux. posted:entering into a contract with a libertarian is like using a wish from a tricky genie. literally my landlord, dude claimed he wasn't liable for damage to my chest freezer that his contractor caused because "the lease says I'm not responsible."
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FMguru posted:heres my business plan to disrupt the soylent industry this is literally what brewers do for whiskey btw http://www.thedailybeast.com/articles/2014/07/28/your-craft-whiskey-is-probably-from-a-factory-distillery-in-indiana.html
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don't watch the Alpha Chow in the related vids for that infomercial btw. jfc
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FMguru posted:heres my business plan to disrupt the soylent industry better yet, just sign a packaging and distribution deal with ensure, never touch the product, drop ship to customers directly off their logistics chain present the deal as iron clad to a vc group without having signed anything and use their money to fund it
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computer parts posted:this is literally what brewers do for whiskey btw
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qirex posted:market opportunities for soylent would either depend on a secret formula [lol oops] or high-end custom versions for rich fat people [but how is that not medifast then?] soylent owes any success it has to marketing, the formula doesn't actually matter. and he's not even a good marketer, he just stumbled upon a weirdass niche by chance. who knew that what (some small subset of) people wanted wasn't medically certified food replacements for sick people created by chemists and dieticians, but rather disruptive healthy food hacks from this one engineer, Big Food hates him!
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speaking of fun with markups, i read an article about lego where they talked about their architecture line. lego loving loves it because they can see a product with the same number of blocs and production cost as a fire station or moonbase for double the list price because the target customer is an adult who is willing to spend $89 on a lego sydney opera house or guggenheim museum sell $30 worth of blocs as a $40 toy gas station or sell $30 worth of blocs as an $80 eiffel tower model ? hmmmm...
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FMguru posted:arent most "craft beers" just stuff from miller/coors/bud except put in fancier bottles and sold at a 150% markup?
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Main Paineframe posted:speaking of "no quality filter", soylent just got $20 million from vcs I asked my wife if she'd heard of it, and she hadn't and found their web site. many WTFs resulted from watching their intro video, especially since their founder really appears on the spectrum there.
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infernal machines posted:it would take literally a single google search to find out about hundreds of better researched products that exist in exactly the same market space at an even lower pricepoint. how are these loving idiots investing money in something without doing so much due diligence as a lazy highschooler writing a book report. gently caress doing research but i bet coke zero is worth billions despite being diet coke with a different sweetener. ensure tastes better and is more nutritious than soylent but it's marketed to old people and people with busted jaws. consumers are idiots but the vcs are probably just cynical jackasses
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i'm hoping that MGM was waiting for the VC money drop to happen before they sue soylent into the earth for trademark violation
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Verdafolio posted:i'm hoping that MGM was waiting for the VC money drop to happen before they sue soylent into the earth for trademark violation well yeah there's that too e: but then we could get officially licensed soylent green!
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qirex posted:well yeah there's that too an ensure™ product
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or sell empty boxes to dieters encouraging them to eat that instead of that third mcgriddle
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FMguru posted:speaking of fun with markups, i read an article about lego where they talked about their architecture line. lego loving loves it because they can see a product with the same number of blocs and production cost as a fire station or moonbase for double the list price because the target customer is an adult who is willing to spend $89 on a lego sydney opera house or guggenheim museum even better: slap a star wars logo on it and sell it as a $200 set this is why lego surpassed mattel as the biggest toy company in the world.
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qirex posted:I've been waffling on buying lego fallingwater forever then you can start saving up for lego guggenheim museum, lego robie house, and lego imperial hotel FCKGW posted:even better: slap a star wars logo on it and sell it as a $200 set  you have to write lucas/disney a check when you do thatyou dont have to write big ben or the taj mahal when you do models of them
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the best part about soylent as a brand is that in the original book none of the soylent is people, its just literal trash food
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time to file the FTC lawsuit because i expected to be drinking people, not bespoke protein shakes
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Citizen Tayne posted:literally my landlord, dude claimed he wasn't liable for damage to my chest freezer that his contractor caused because "the lease says I'm not responsible." burn an effigy of an old-timey oil lamp on his lawn
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FMguru posted:arent most "craft beers" just stuff from miller/coors/bud except put in fancier bottles and sold at a 150% markup? there are varying degrees, there's stuff like blue moon which is mass produced by coors, then you have stuff like lienenkuegel that was independent but was bought and is run by miller. goose island was independent, bought by anheiser but supposedly is managed independently, then you have the true independent micro brewers who are going for quality, then the microbrewers who are making swill like hamms.
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http://www.post-gazette.com/busines...es/201501140151 pennsylvania subpoenas travis kalanick and ups fine to 19 million bucks & counting. good poo poo
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As a Millennial I posted:http://www.post-gazette.com/busines...es/201501140151
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FMguru posted:they would have fined him more but they couldnt find anyone in pennsylvania who could count higher than 19 million Much like your posts!
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Sagebrush posted:They're going to have to stop calling it soylent at some point though yeah? if you point out how their ref is insanely gross they just act like you're the nerd for knowing about it and then literally act out a jp scene from grandma's boy
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computer parts posted:this is literally what brewers do for whiskey btw i'm the distillery started in 2006 that's selling 10 year old rye the talent deficit posted:gently caress doing research but i bet coke zero is worth billions despite being diet coke with a different sweetener. ensure tastes better and is more nutritious than soylent but it's marketed to old people and people with busted jaws. consumers are idiots but the vcs are probably just cynical jackasses don't forget black packaging and avoidance of the "diet" title in order to appeal to men
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:don't forget black packaging and avoidance of the "diet" title in order to appeal to men which was because they spent a lot of the 70s and 80s and 90s all but exclusively marketing "diet" sodas to women
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H.P. Hovercraft posted:don't forget black packaging and avoidance of the "diet" title in order to appeal to men also the fact that diet coke has the flavor profile of new coke and coke zero that of coke classic GOD
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um ill just take the simple reductive narrative tyvm
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duTrieux. posted:also the fact that diet coke has the flavor profile of new coke and coke zero that of coke classic GOD you got that mixed up. diet coke has the approximate flavor profile of pepsi, new coke was formulated to be close to that but using actual sugars
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soadachat i don't drink soda very often, but i prefer diet coke to the other variants
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