Tim Burks
You can use fire to clear a forest but don't expect tears from Nature when your house burns with it.
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Another: participants rarely realize the magnitude of the harm, and the backers who profit from it are self-righteous moralizers.
Parse was a model for selling products to developers. But it also succeeded by burning enough VC money to suffocate its competitors.
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@timburks that's how the VC game is played, build & grow unsustainably until you find a good business model or sell the company -
@etrepum we shopped with Webvan :) -
@timburks okay, yes, going bankrupt was the implicit third option :) -
@etrepum This triggered me to read up on Webvan. I didn't realize how much it lives on at Amazon.http://www.forbes.com/sites/petercohan/2013/06/17/four-lessons-amazon-learned-from-webvans-flop …
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Bob Ippolito
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