Mike Rundle summed up a nice funny list of 5 ways to make fun of Startup blog and CEO’s who dont know shit about technology but pretend they are.
“People who immediately signup for your beta web app or read about your company via Techcrunch RSS on their Blackberry makeup approximately 0.0005% of the U.S. population as a whole, so stop kidding yourself.”
here are a few:
- 1. Tout your technologies like you know WTF they are.
This one is for all the CEOs who can’t touch type, you know who you are. I can’t tell you how embarrassingly funny it is to read blog entries or About pages where technological terms are thrown around and mushed up like cow shit in a tornado. Oh, so you use Ruby on Rails and Ajax? Sweet! Who developed the RoR framework? Is it a framework or a programming language? What’s Ajax used for, slidey effects? Nope, guess again. Go take this quiz and see how well you do, and while you’re at it, stop telling your engineers when your beta release date is before you have the specs worked out, because you’re an idiot and they’re quitting next week. - 2. Have no shame in pitching your company.
I propose a new drinking game: every time you see somebody slide a sidearmed company pitch into a Techcrunch comment, you must take a shot. It usually sounds like, “Wow that’s a great idea, in fact, we’ve been working on LINK HERE for a few months and it incorporates that functionality, and more!” Just today I’ve seen some examples, but I won’t link to you because they’re too blatant. Okay, I lied.
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