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go3 posted:The Grand Canyon will definitely be getting a bad review hahaha
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My thoughts exactly. And if you fall into the grand canyon that's kind of like natural selection
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ToxicSlurpee posted:Am I the only one that's amazed Yahoo! even still exists? They feel like a relic from a former era at this point. They are, but that doesn't matter; Relics, by definition, have legacies, and legacies sell really well to the helplessly nostalgic and gullible.
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FoxStrats posted:They are, but that doesn't matter; Relics, by definition, have legacies, and legacies sell really well to the helplessly nostalgic and gullible. They're almost old enough for nostalgia to work in their favor. Yahoo could be the next hipster email of choice (because aol.com will never be cool). As an aside Lycos is still alive too. Their headquarters has a big sign visible off 95 outside Boston.
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go3 posted:The Grand Canyon will definitely be getting a bad review That view tho
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Marenghi posted:That view tho Eh, it starts out good, but gets pretty bad really quickly.
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She wasn't a unicorn, but it was quite the fall.
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asdf32 posted:As an aside Lycos is still alive too. How?
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Wheany posted:How? Necromancy?
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asdf32 posted:They're almost old enough for nostalgia to work in their favor. Yahoo could be the next hipster email of choice (because aol.com will never be cool). I'm envisioning hipsters setting their text message sound to the 90s yahoo sound bite
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Platonicsolid posted:Necromancy? Some guy who washes cars probably bought the sign from a yard sale and figured he doesn't need to make his own now.
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Wheany posted:How? Someone owns every old IP. Just in case.
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Another bad Yahoo quarter, another $482 of Tumblr value written off.. Marissa Mayer status: still employed. Yahoo status: still unsold. For those of you playing along at home, Yahoo paid 1.1 billion for Tumblr; it currently values the property at $388 million. While we're at it, another startup founded by teenagers goes boom. quote:FlightCar, a self-styled “Airbnb for cars,” abruptly shut down last week, selling its technology to Mercedes-Benz. The company said it would close all 12 of its airport “stations” — basically staffed parking lots — where people would drop off their personal cars for FlightCar to rent to others while the owner was traveling. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 01:26 on Jul 19, 2016 |
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Arsenic Lupin posted:Another bad Yahoo quarter, another $482 of Tumblr value written off.. Marissa Mayer status: still employed. Yahoo status: still unsold. https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mcSujceZDmg
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Arsenic Lupin posted:While we're at it, another startup founded by teenagers goes boom. I like how the first complaint (in your quote at least) is from a venture capitalist bemoaning that the company actually paid people to do things. What a quaint notion.
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MickeyFinn posted:I like how the first complaint (in your quote at least) is from a venture capitalist bemoaning that the company actually paid people to do things. What a quaint notion.
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To be fair, the model they were trying for did make valets redundant. Just buy/build a parking garage near to the airport and have people drop their cars off there. You're already accepting the risk of having a stranger drive your car, why do you need a professional to take it from you when you arrive?
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Keeshhound posted:To be fair, the model they were trying for did make valets redundant. Just buy/build a parking garage near to the airport and have people drop their cars off there. You're already accepting the risk of having a stranger drive your car, why do you need a professional to take it from you when you arrive?
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http://www.hubspot.com/jobs/apply-via-snapchatquote:Apply to HubSpot via Snapchat on Wednesday, July 20th can't decide between  and 
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cheese posted:Buying or building a parking garage near the airport would be a serious investment in physical capitol. Yeah, I phrased that poorly. I was trying to say something like "use the airport's existing parking, but try to match people who'll be arriving and leaving that airport so that the vehicle spends as little time as possible sitting in the lot." Still a stupid idea with a ton of risks, but doesn't require a valet.
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Defenestration posted:http://www.hubspot.com/jobs/apply-via-snapchat Keeshhound posted:Yeah, I phrased that poorly. I was trying to say something like "use the airport's existing parking, but try to match people who'll be arriving and leaving that airport so that the vehicle spends as little time as possible sitting in the lot." Still a stupid idea with a ton of risks, but doesn't require a valet. cheese fucked around with this message at 23:29 on Jul 19, 2016 |
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It would make more sense to have a service that connects people who are going to the airport to drop off or pick up someone already, with people who live nearby and would pay a nominal fee for the other side of the trip. The logistics are nightmarish and I don't think it would be particularly reliable, but it's still a way better idea.
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Defenestration posted:http://www.hubspot.com/jobs/apply-via-snapchat
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cheese posted:Translation: We arn't really hiring anyone, but please use Snapchat and be involved with Hubspot!
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Gail Wynand posted:Reminder that Hubspot is the company Dan Lyons' recent book was about This was a great book, btw. Everyone that enjoys this thread would like that book.
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Day Man posted:This was a great book, btw. Everyone that enjoys this thread would like that book. This is 100% true - anyone with an ounce of startup schadenfreude will love it
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bacon! posted:This is 100% true - anyone with an ounce of startup schadenfreude will love it more like startenfreude
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Unilever has bought US start-up Dollar Shave Club for a reported $1bn (£764m) in cash to compete in the male grooming market. (http://www.bbc.com/news/business-36791928) Negative profit and only $150m annual revenue with a pending lawsuit from Gillette? Sure, why not.
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In cash.
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I always wondered how they can really deliver shaving supplies that cheaply. If men are really interested in getting a good shave really cheap, they'll just get into wet shaving and buy the same, very affordable products over and over again.
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Halloween Jack posted:I always wondered how they can really deliver shaving supplies that cheaply. They probably can't, which is why they're losing money like most other idiotic startups. By the way, are they the assholes from all the annoying podcast ads? I hope the fat stack of Unilever cash will get them to move them to Superbowl or somewhere else where I don't have to hear or see them. Abner Assington posted:In cash. 
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mobby_6kl posted:It's probably not literal cash, just actual money as opposed to stock. Though I do wish all corporate acquisitions were done by delivering huge pallets of Benjamins Would make acquisitions great set-pieces for heist movies.
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Halloween Jack posted:If men are really interested in getting a good shave really cheap, they'll just get into wet shaving and buy the same, very affordable products over and over again. Some startup will notice this and start a company around it, getting attention from the public, the media, and larger corporations, and thereby driving up prices and completely ruining it all. Capitalism ruins a lot of things, come to think of it.
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mobby_6kl posted:They probably can't, which is why they're losing money like most other idiotic startups. By the way, are they the assholes from all the annoying podcast ads? I hope the fat stack of Unilever cash will get them to move them to Superbowl or somewhere else where I don't have to hear or see them. It's a combination of other options being wildly overpriced and hoping that people forget to cancel their subscription. It might be them on the podcast ads or it could be Harry's razors (they liked it so much they bought the factory, don't'cha'know). I've tried both and Harry's is actually pretty great because you just order however many blades you want and there's no subscription element to it. The Dollar Shave Club razor sucks in comparison as well. Anyhoo.
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MiddleOne posted:Would make acquisitions great set-pieces for heist movies. A client of mine just paid $50 million* in hand money for a building they wanted to buy. The delivered it to the rooftop of the firm they were buying it from via drone. * check I guess when we have larger commercial drones and more dick measuring, some big hiests could happen.
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JohnGalt posted:A client of mine just paid $50 million* in hand money for a building they wanted to buy. The delivered it to the rooftop of the firm they were buying it from via drone.
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MiddleOne posted:Would make acquisitions great set-pieces for heist movies.
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JohnGalt posted:A client of mine just paid $50 million* in hand money for a building they wanted to buy. The delivered it to the rooftop of the firm they were buying it from via drone. e: I just looked up "wet shaving". This para is from the first page of the first hit. quote:Sure you can add 5 blades and have it sing to you, but it’s just not necessary. We recommend a straight razor, which is the kind that looks super scary and intimidating. N.b. I bought my husband a straight razor in the 1980s. We now use it as a bread lame. Arsenic Lupin fucked around with this message at 14:38 on Jul 20, 2016 |
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Client of mine had a sale postponed for a day when the courier dropped the envelope containing the check for $25m and it fell into the gap between the elevator shaft and the car. Talk about awkward.
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Anything involving shaving is hilariously gendered. It is either motifs of burly lumberjack men punching bears with one hand while the other shaves much to the delight of the women lined up to caress their face, or a blissed out woman in a floral lined spa with mermaids bringing her dark chocolate while a baby deer holds her towel. That said I'd love to see a commercial based on the joy of getting into a bed with freshly washed sheets after shaving your legs. Goddamn is that the best feeling ever.
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