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Grokit | 12 years ago | on: How to Make Yourself Work When You Just Don’t Want To

Just because you can't, doesn't mean other people can't. I had actually realized basically everything they were talking about a few months ago, and since then I have improved my decision making significantly. Depending on your feelings to power you through things is very unreliable.

Grokit | 12 years ago | on: We're Shutting Down and I'm Scared

I'd say the best thing you can do is learn the lesson that you should have had a contingency plan for this situation. Particularly since failure is the most likely outcome of any startup. I know though, that only happens to the 'other' guys.

Grokit | 12 years ago | on: Why we should give free money to everyone

I think your math might be a little off. The idea isn't to give basic income to everyone. The idea would be basically give it to anyone who can't afford basic living expenses. Not to everyone. It's not 25% of the entire population that isn't working, but only 25% of the poorest people being provided income and who probably weren't working anyways

Grokit | 12 years ago | on: What I Didn't Say

"Founded a successful web apps company back in the 1990s when that wasn't common, and sold it to Yahoo"

While that is awesome, it is a substantially different game we play nowadays than in the 90's.

Grokit | 12 years ago | on: What I Didn't Say

I suppose you wouldn't listen to Einstein when he was under 40 too, hmmm? There are numerous examples of younger, less experienced people being in the right while the older, more experienced are at fault because of one thing or another. Of course, this is the exception, not the rule. However, less experienced people often have an interesting take on things that more experienced people miss. When you're 35 you might be better served reading a brilliant 35 year old's thoughts than a brilliant 55 year old's. In many ways, you may be able to better relate and understand the younger one's thoughts.

Grokit | 12 years ago | on: My really successful, unfundable, piece of shit startup I hate to love

Just some honest constructive feedback here.

Kinda just seems like an excuse to me...I don't have kids, so I can't empathize, however, it couldn't take THAT much time to work on monetization strategies. 6 million uniques on a consistent basis is pretty substantial attention, and attention = power, nowadays. Plus, why would an investor want to throw any more money at you when you've already somehow dropped well over a million bucks? I think if you just put some elbow grease in, you'd make it work.

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