Comments on: Ev’s Advice For Startups: “Do Something Awesome”

By: forgetful

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By: Daniel

Daniel — Mon, 13 Apr 2009 15:50:11 +0000

I with anyone who believe that those sites are hobbys type. I dont really see any ways of making profit from twitter. IT just wont happen. Not because there are no ways of doing that, but only because people are USED TO the internet as a free media. anytime when you try to make a profit out of it, guess what, they turn around take five minutes of search and find something similar that is free! and thats the way it will stay for a long time. We, the people are the children of the first internet era. The internet stands for “free”, free download, free registration, etc. The moment you start making the money, users will switch to something cheaper. On the other hand, who remembers lycos or altavista? they have been the first search engines, some japan company pumped up 3 billions in lycos (!) and yet now it is worth just a little. So ,the bottom line: before twitter owners will get to the point: ok now we enough popular, lets try to get back that $100mil our investors put in, new internet era and their users will switch to new toys. it like driving a car — no matter how cool and sporty that oldsmobile or caddilac will be, your kid will choose cheaper bmw or mercedes just BECAUSE.
I hope that makes sense..

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By: erik

erik — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 17:15:55 +0000

i *wasn’t* telling people or even companies what their values should be, i was merely expressing my view, and that’s that a company should have one primary value that supercedes others, which is making a profit. IMHO (notice this in my original posting).

happy to share some vodka anytime and reflect on my own shortcomings. as well as yours.

By: 36dd

36dd — Sun, 12 Apr 2009 04:00:17 +0000

He has a location based bias

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Technology news - Techvibes Blog — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 18:42:26 +0000

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By: Stephan Tual

Stephan Tual — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 07:57:16 +0000

This is very IRONIC because he advises not to get stuck in the geek subculture – but then he’s on stage in front of of that same rabid crowd and his advice is ‘do something awesome’.

LOL. This just proves my point that a lot of these conferences are just snake oil – get people excited about something harmless but charge for the privilege – like Ronda Birnes ‘the secret’. It’s marketing web flavor.

Oh, and if you don’t beleive me maybe you’ll believe the guy who actually wrote twitter – Blaine cooke – http://events.c...s/blaine-cook-2 . “Don’t build something new – twitter is SMS + Blog”.

LOL LOL LOL at the rabid crowds who probably left the conference thinking ‘yes! we’re going to have this idea and be millionaires!’ HAHA

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:49:55 +0000

Correct. Just as we all *do*, in fact, get to tell people, or even companies, how their comments should be written.

Now let’s share some vodka and let our comrade reflect on his shortcomings alone for a while.

By: Paul

Paul — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:47:17 +0000

But if he starts saying, “Failure is not an option” enough, making money could become a tertiary concern.

By: Ron

Ron — Sat, 11 Apr 2009 00:12:03 +0000

I love how the advice is “make something awesome”.

The real advice should be “make something awesome, and also be hugely successful with a previous company sold to google, a popular podcasting site, an existing following in the geek press and a wad of cash to sit on forever while you spin your wheels trying to figure out how to deal with scale”.

By: Achtung

Achtung — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 20:41:02 +0000

Give me a break, Erick. The two biggest Captain Obviouses are Loic Le Meur and Jason Calacanis. Coincidentally, they also happen to be the two guys whoses asses TC constantly kisses.

By: doug Ferguson

doug Ferguson — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:43:02 +0000

pretty funny.

By: Adrian Eden

Adrian Eden — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 19:24:12 +0000

I really like Evan and Twitter, they do things well, and they don’t try overly hard to be perfect or please everyone. They seem sincere and real, and I’m very happy to be apart of their community.

By: Max

Max — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 18:00:13 +0000

Another social network. Duh.

By: Shane

Shane — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:54:08 +0000

That is pretty damn arrogant of him. “Do something awesome…” Really? That is kind of a self-fulfilling prophecy.

By: Morons should be kicked in the balls, not written about

Morons should be kicked in the balls, not written about — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:14:45 +0000

Idiot advice from someone who lost touch with everyday reality a while back.

Sigh.

By: Jason Bentley

Jason Bentley — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 17:06:37 +0000

I think the real takeaway here is that Twitter is web lube.

By: Michel Nizon

Michel Nizon — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:59:00 +0000

Twitter secret: “One thing Twitter won’t do: allow people to go beyond 140 characters”.

By: straps

straps — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:55:29 +0000

Ahhh, if were only as easy as ‘do something awesome’………

By: silicon valley dropout

silicon valley dropout — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:35:16 +0000

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By: Caty

Caty — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:27:52 +0000

jonathan ross, stephen fry, jack dee, philip schofield et al. I think you’ll find that is has taken off, there is quite a huge celeb buzz going on. Now of course if they were all paid to endorse it, shared similar agents and it was being driven by a PR company then you’d have a point, but otherwise once they’ve managed to get pics into the tweetstream easier for non-geeks it could well be the david to facebooks goliath.

By: GamesReview

GamesReview — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 14:12:29 +0000

Does anyone know how Twitter makes money?

By: stu

stu — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 09:54:50 +0000

Gee twitter is just a poxy micro blog no wonder it hasnt took off over here in the U.K,it’s just ageek thing……

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By: Engago team

Engago team — Fri, 10 Apr 2009 08:16:44 +0000

Dear Evan,
We have a boring B2B lead generation and customer retention solution as a web service that helps to make money for our customers (that’s even more boring).
How can we do something awesome?