21 December 2003
Submitted by eve on Mon, 12/22/2003 - 9:51am. Beautiful
"Shut up. It's our business model, and you can't make fun of it until it totally fails."
--A guy sitting at the next table over at Khana Peena.
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Perhaps it is the tried and true
Posted by Tam on Tue, 12/23/2003 - 6:45am.
1. Capture large quantities of sea urchins and chimpanzees
2. ???
3. PROFIT!

"The true New Yorker secretly believes that anyone living anywhere else must somehow, in a sense, be kidding."
(John Updike)
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New business ventures
Posted by umop apisdn on Mon, 12/22/2003 - 8:36pm.
"Come to the edge," Life said.
They said "We are afraid."
"Come to the edge," Life said.
They came, and Life pushed Them.
And They flew.
-- Guillaume Apollinaire

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A precariously balanced mixture of myopic optimism and rampant paranoia.
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Ahh the delirium of optimism ....
Posted by dave on Mon, 12/22/2003 - 2:27pm.
One can just imagine several years for now, an embittered individual, mewing in his cups about how if someone had just told him that his plan was floored, he wouldn't be bummed out and broke with no more motivation.

"Million to one chances happen nine times out of ten">
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Sure....it may suck....
Posted by Ameroogie on Mon, 12/22/2003 - 12:42pm.
"Sure...the business plan may suck....but the true measure of how bad it may be can only be evaluated based on the amount of money we stand to lose. Shut up and write the damn check."

.....Microsoft.....the early years.....
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I wonder if they wrote
Posted by hypoxic on Mon, 12/22/2003 - 10:19am.
it on a napkin?
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Napkin..
Posted by ParU on Tue, 12/30/2003 - 12:51am.
Don't knock writing on a napkin. I can recall some serious world-changing things that we used to write on napkins at the Crest (pizza place).

And Compaq computer was started by writing on a placemat (they've featured that placemat in ads for years).
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Posted by Joe Napalm on Tue, 12/30/2003 - 10:26am.
Who's "we"? You, Einstein, Marx and Plato?

-Jn-
Efreeti Sophist
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But of course...
Posted by ParU on Tue, 12/30/2003 - 6:19pm.
My fine feathered, friend. Didn't you solve all the problems of the world as a college student? I know I did, it was just the implementation of our brillant solutions that was lacking.
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Improvise
Posted by steff on Tue, 12/30/2003 - 1:50pm.
all evidence points to plato using a corner of his toga.

... for both the use and the other use.
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Posted by Saint on Mon, 12/22/2003 - 9:57am.
"Fair enough. I'll wait."
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