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BingoBoingo: <mircea_popescu> curious how long
they
take
to BAN ME!111 omaigawds << You aren't looking in Missouri or Ohio? I
though you were doing Anthropology, or Whaleology.
mircea_popescu: the douche
thinks
this can be successful, in any sense. i rest.
trinque: reframes it back
to a rectangle, lets you
Tag and Share (TM) etc.
mircea_popescu: infoDev. We could list countless press and media coverage from all around
the world. But here is what we could not do: we simply failed in creating a scalable business!"
mircea_popescu: defined by having investors believe in your
team, your business, and your product, we successfully raised capital from
the
top super angel and angel investor in Silicon Valley. We are
the first company from Vietnam
that got accepted
to
the most prestigious accelerator program in
the world. From 90 countries around
the world, our Whiteboard app won No. 1 in
the Dragon’s Den Pitching Competition by
the World Bank’s
mircea_popescu: "If success is defined by creating awesome products, we created apps
that have been downloaded 15 million
times across iOS, Android, and
the Mac App Store. If success is defined by people using
the product, we still have over a quarter of a million users actively using our apps around
the world. If success is defined by making money for
the business, we put in our bank account $1 million in
total revenue. If success is
mircea_popescu: ascii_field if
that were it
the 50
times would
take 1 minute.
mircea_popescu: i mean don't get me wrong, it's a
theory, but
that's about it.
ascii_field: resets,
tries grub diddle via simulated keyboard,
then proceeds
mircea_popescu: i saw it but i'm not persuaded it explains anything. what, exactly, someone can't just walk into
the dc copy
the server ?
ascii_field: mircea_popescu: didja catch
the
turd last night re: grub2 ?
trinque: anyhow, we'll find out what he's up
to on
the next paste :D
trinque: heh, he's probably off cracking
the whip
mircea_popescu: oh look at
that, from back in
the days ben_vulpes wasn't
too ashamed of random mishap
to show up in b-a ? :D
assbot: Logged on 19-03-2015 06:38:14; mircea_popescu:
they make corpses.
ascii_field: classically, 'dumping' is supposed
to have a ??? and
then a 'profit!111'
trinque: bezos loves his razor-thin margins;
there's a previous
thread on
this
mircea_popescu: you can't run a bar by giving out free drinks. you CAN however, and if you have any sense you DO run a bar by giving away free
tits.
mircea_popescu: ascii_field it just happens
to be a very good loss leader. you know how casinos will give you free drinks for as long as you're playing ?
ascii_field: to
the point where i EXPECT a
three dollar part
to arrive sunday morning if ordered on friday night
mircea_popescu: there isn't really
that much difference. all
this mentally deranged "we are changing
the world"
third reiteration of
the quaker/puritan insanities
tries hard and in selected idiots manages
to cover up
the simple fact
that every situation where "our saviour
the entrepreneur created value" can always be described in
terms of "this leech is arbitraging
the roof against
the wall, either wayy we'll end up under rubble."
ascii_field: but somehow a. struck deals with all of
the major shipping corps
ascii_field: the interesting
thing about 'amazon' is
that no wallmartization is involved - it's
the same items, delivered (typically) from 3rd parties, rather
than specially-made egregious crud
ascii_field: this is more like mircea_popescu's article with
the giant arse sitting down in small chairs
mircea_popescu: just another example of "revolutionized
the world" being
the worst outcome for
the world.
ascii_field: (why
there exists an 'amazon' which does
this for ~$0 is a mystery, but here it is)
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 17:48:02; mircea_popescu: i mean... you can order magazines delivered by
the little magazine stand. or flowers. ANY store, you walk in, you want delivery,
they'll fucking deliver.
ascii_field: i'm just not seeing
the predicate here ('above median') as being
true
mircea_popescu: otherwise your brain becomes a "phd castle
to be manned by 9k phds"
assbot: Logged on 17-12-2015 17:45:38; mircea_popescu: and at
this juncture i'd like
to inquire with
the esteemed audience whether
they'd allocate
the "not as
terrible as medium average"
to
the datapoint
that he had 10's of k's of pounds
to blow on
this (ie, rich is not as stupid as poor, ceteris paribus) or
to
the fact
that he's british (ie, pureblood is not as stupid as mongrels, ceteris paribus).
mircea_popescu: "i intend
to one day be a singer" is not how you get
the fucking job. WHERE HAVE YOU SUNG BEFORE BITCH.
that is it,
that is all.
mircea_popescu: never ask people as
to
their intentions. nobody cares, least of all
themselves.
mircea_popescu: ut PAST behaviour: When was
the last
time
they cooked something new? Do
they dislike
takeaway food? Do
they feel bad about food wastage/spoilage? If so, what are
they doing
to minimize it? If nothing, it’s not a problem waiting for a solution."
mircea_popescu: "You must never, ever, pitch
the product
to
the customer and ask for
their feedback. Instead,
the conversation serves
the purpose of ascertaining whether
the lack of recipe diversity and frustration with
takeaway food or ready meals is a big enough problem for which I offer a solution
that
they would pay for.
To reach
this conclusion, don’t ask about
their future intentions (“would you buy
this?”), but do ask abo
mircea_popescu: i don't like
the idea because i send
the girls. picking good stuff is complex. but yes, if
they could be
trusted
to do something other
than
the usual anglosphere "this is how supermarket gets rid of all
the imminetly-rotten junk",
then yeah.
punkman: I even like
the idea, I'd probably want
to buy ingredients by
the week
mircea_popescu: a random
two immigrant illegal stand here, will
take orders. and walk
them over.
mircea_popescu: now, doing
this efficiently, effectually and at scale is way beyond
the intellectual wherewithal of argentines, but nevertheless,
the need is
there.
mircea_popescu: i mean... you can order magazines delivered by
the little magazine stand. or flowers. ANY store, you walk in, you want delivery,
they'll fucking deliver.
☟︎ mircea_popescu: There never was a need for a service like ours in
the UK in
the segment
that we picked (urban professionals, couples without kids or with one baby max). << ironically,
the need does exist. argentina does one
thing right, and
that is
they are FANATIC with deliveries. you can have ANYTHING delivered. i don't mean, walk into supermarket, order
two pellets of mineral water and have
the supermarket deliver it - you can do
t mircea_popescu: and at
this juncture i'd like
to inquire with
the esteemed audience whether
they'd allocate
the "not as
terrible as medium average"
to
the datapoint
that he had 10's of k's of pounds
to blow on
this (ie, rich is not as stupid as poor, ceteris paribus) or
to
the fact
that he's british (ie, pureblood is not as stupid as mongrels, ceteris paribus).
☟︎ mircea_popescu: of radioactive fumes emanating from commercial kitchen equipment, all be zombified and eat patrons’ brains, yes, in
that case I might be
tempted
to purchase a
trial product from you. Once.
Then I’ll
take a risk with
the zombies.”
mircea_popescu: However, we committed
the big mistake of presenting people with
the idea and asking
them if
they liked it and would buy it. And when people said yes, WE
thought
they meant “launch it and I will buy”. In reality,
they meant “I’m not entirely excluding
the possibility
that one day, when Ocado
trucks run out of gas, supermarket doors get blocked by red-hot lava and restaurant waiters will, due
to a mysterious leak
mircea_popescu: This will be
the number one lesson I will never forget and
the absolute key
to understanding Dinnr’s failure — we were not solving anyone’s problem. I should have found
that out in my initial market research, especially in my 1–1 interviews.
mircea_popescu: uh
this has never happened. who
the fuck is he
talking about ?
mircea_popescu: "Now, with
the distance of a few months, it sounds positively crazy
to run a “business” like
this. But of course, one sticks
to
the guns because one has set out
to make
things happen and one has an obligation
to investors. And
then
there’s
the adage of “a winner never quits”,
tales of entrepreneur legends who lost all
their money, got abandoned by family and friends, were so hungry
that
they ate cardboard, on
mircea_popescu: superstore. After 15 months of operations, we had approximately one order per day, generating on average £26 in revenue and supposedly 30% in gross margin, but given
the low volumes, we were losing money on every order."
mircea_popescu: "In
those days, I spent 9 hours a day, 6 days a week, sitting in a cold warehouse in West Acton, hot air blowers creating 25 degree bubbles around parts of my body in an otherwise 14–15 degree room.
The large industrial fridges were empty. Long gone were
the days I pre-stocked ingredients for faster order fulfillment. Now, when an order would come
through, I would jump on my bike and buy fresh ingredients at a nearby
mircea_popescu: why
the fuck would you not include pepper. i mean, leave aside all
the other idiocies involved, why
the FUCK would you not include
the very few items
that are already prepackaged for
this and have been for 50 years.
mircea_popescu: Background: Dinnr was an ad-hoc, same day ingredient delivery service. Select a recipe on our website, and we deliver everything you need
to cook
that recipe at home, all
the items pre-measured with printed instructions. All you need at home is oil, salt and pepper and a reasonably equipped kitchen.)
mircea_popescu: "what do you mean
the great equations don't apply
to me ?! what, i'm like, not good enough
to matter in
this sense ?!?!?!"
mircea_popescu: never has math been so cruelly raped as it has been since
the web 2,0 made
these shits fashionable (lesswrong, medium,
tedtalks,
the "webayesian" approach
to pseudoscience and so forth).
punkman: 80% of
the people are gonna spend 20 minutes on my stupid questions!
mircea_popescu: jesus
that article.
the amount of navelgrazing
these nitwits will engage in baffles me.
mircea_popescu: at any rate,
the notion
that people are actively interested in oppressing his dumb ass so
that
their world isn't littered with
the byproducts of a
trillion adam zerners running around does not even begin
to occur.
mircea_popescu: something like "why wouldn't mom go
turn
tricks for an hour each weekend, it only costs her an hour's worth of
tricks, like 50 bucks or so, and she could buy me WoW from
the proceeds, at a value
to me of OVER NINE
THOUSAND DOLLARS!11". supposedly
this is how it worked with
that dumb whore of Adam Zerner's mother. shame on you mrs zerner, really. being ugly is no excuse
to fuck drunks. behold
the unfortunate results in
mircea_popescu:
https://archive.is/u5LjB <<
the butttears piece in question (obviously what he links is his own verbiage, because what, we can't all be mp ?! why
the hell not!). his idea is
that people are assholes because
they don't front what [appears
to him as] a small cost
to
them in order
to get him [what appears
to him as] a larger benefit.
mircea_popescu: Feb 279 min read << ahahaha a 10 minute read on
the fucking clock is 279 minutes according
to what
the fuck is
this ? us college reading comprehension data ?
mircea_popescu: And I when I asked people from my high school
to answer questions and spread
the word a bit, I
thought
that a bunch of
them would have respect for what I’m doing and want
to help out. Almost no one did, which I found
to be quite selfish of
them. I don’t
think my initial expectations were
too unreasonable given what I had known, but my beliefs have since been updated."
mircea_popescu: decent chance
that
they’d
think, “Oh cool, look at
this kid
trying
to start a startup, good for him! Hm, he’s actually
trying
to do something
that would be pretty useful. Let me check it out.”
mircea_popescu: "I overestimated peoples’ desire
to help someone starting a startup and
trying
to do something good.
This will probably sound naive, but I don’t
think it is. I
thought
that people would have some sort of respect for what I’m doing and want
to help out. For example,
the high school guidance counselors I
tried
to contact, maybe
the default is for
them
to operate in a bureaucratic way, but I had
thought
there was a
mircea_popescu: "I spent 2 weeks cold calling college counselors saying, “Hey I’ve got free student reviews of Ivy League schools. Check it out, let me know what you
think, and sign up here if you want
to be notified when I get more schools.” Almost all of
them ignored me."
mircea_popescu: "things like finance, marketing, strategy, economics, design,
technology etc.". ytou know, just like neuroscience is all about "things like neurons, axons, mielin etc", just so entrepreneurtardism is an unstructured soup of nothing in particular.
mircea_popescu: Throughout sophomore year I read all I could about startups, and about
things like finance, marketing, strategy, economics, design,
technology etc.
The following summer I started learning some HTML, CSS, JS and PHP, but didn’t make much progress (I also started a very early version of
the website
that I’m writing
this post about)."
mircea_popescu: and using it
to do something good would be a better way of pursuing my goals of doing something important”.
mircea_popescu: My sophomore year of college I was a neuroscience major and my plan was
to unlock
the secrets of
the mind and universe.
Then I realized
that
the path of grad school, professor, grants, and incremental research wouldn’t be a great way
to pursue
this goal. At
the same
time, I read Paul Graham’s essay on How
to Start a Startup. I felt a strong sense of “I could do
this!” and “making a lot of money from a startup
mircea_popescu: and still EVERYTHING is on medium. medium.com, home of
the new retard. are you
the sort of guy who learns
that "you charge not for how much work it is for you, but for how much
the service is worth" in your
twenties ? are you ready
to start your entrepreneurtardism with 2 week's ruby cramming ? are you a "content generator" with delusions of humanity ? MEDIUM IS WHERE ALL
THE OTHER SIMILAR SCUM FOUND A HOME!
mircea_popescu: "Unfortunately we do not have
the resources
to fend off a large company like
Twitter
to maintain our mark which we believe whole heartedly is rightfully ours.
Therefore, we have decided
to shut down
Twitpic."
mircea_popescu: and more patients are obtained
through what,
the power of prayer ?
mircea_popescu: "I realized
that many of
the
true money-making businesses in healthcare really aren’t about optimizing delivery of primary care.
This is a longer discussion but I realized, essentially,
that we had no customers because no one was really interested in
the model we were pitching. Doctors want more patients, not an efficient office."
mircea_popescu: "Product: Bitshuva What I didn’t understand was, you charge not for how much work it is for you. You charge how much
the service is worth."
mircea_popescu: it really galls
these fucktards,
the notion
that
there exists something
that's not for
them.