Lets try to rewrite the gp's post as DH5. Also, someone fix the parents score. Ad-hominem posts should be discouraged.
The author thinks start-ups should change the world. She's mistaken. Start-ups are businesses, they're meant to support the owners, provide services or goods, and feed families. If the owners manage to sell for some multiple of what they would have made working during that same time frame, Great. That's all that is needed.
Her call for start-ups to be swinging for the fences is as well founded as I would be in calling for her, as a journalist, to go report on something that really "matters", something that could cause a "positive" change, something with at least as much impact as jgrahamc's petition (edit: just reread this, I am not knocking the petition, just setting a bar. I was impressed.). It's she who chose start-ups, they're just business men, engineers, and programmers, they don't owe TC. And besides, how does the following work exactly? TC chose the attendees, and now they pass the blame.
I don’t say this to knock the conference or the selections we made. But the truth is I heard it too consistently backstage to ignore it. To be fair, we’re at that point in the start-up cycle where this is to be expected.
(I like the idea of labeling posts against Paul's system. I think it would make the only useful meme I have ever known.)
The author thinks start-ups should change the world. She's mistaken. Start-ups are businesses, they're meant to support the owners, provide services or goods, and feed families. If the owners manage to sell for some multiple of what they would have made working during that same time frame, Great. That's all that is needed.
Her call for start-ups to be swinging for the fences is as well founded as I would be in calling for her, as a journalist, to go report on something that really "matters", something that could cause a "positive" change, something with at least as much impact as jgrahamc's petition (edit: just reread this, I am not knocking the petition, just setting a bar. I was impressed.). It's she who chose start-ups, they're just business men, engineers, and programmers, they don't owe TC. And besides, how does the following work exactly? TC chose the attendees, and now they pass the blame.
I don’t say this to knock the conference or the selections we made. But the truth is I heard it too consistently backstage to ignore it. To be fair, we’re at that point in the start-up cycle where this is to be expected.
(I like the idea of labeling posts against Paul's system. I think it would make the only useful meme I have ever known.)