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Journal tomhudson's Journal: Peepel iz dum ! 8

This one I *knew* was going to be a waste of time.

Refuses to give any description of what he wants until I sign an NDA, so of course I told him that I wasn't going to waste my time with him, that I had to have some idea of what he wanted, so I could decide if it was worth discussing.

Finally I get back another email ... "It's a small project. I want a kijiji clone." Sorry, but that is not a small project. Not even in Soviet Russia, where kijiji clones YOU!

Oh, and forget about just customizing an open-source package - he wants to own the code, and it has to all be custom code.

Another one of those "dime a dozen get-rich quick ideas" people. Stupid+greedy. Fortunately, his "project" will never see the light of day.

Such is the internet in 2010 - it's the same internet as 1995, just with even more line noise.

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  • ...but isn't Kijiji a copy of craigslist? Isn't craigslist just the obvious step of taking classified ads and putting them on teh intarwebz?

    So what you've got, if I've understood correctly, is a get-rich-quick schemer who wants to make a clone of the Canadian clone of the US clone of newspaper classified sections. Throw in his code demands, and I doubt he'll get much programmed even if he happens to have a nerdy kid relative who can be temporarily dazzled with promises of 1997-style internet riches. Wai

    • Of course that's all it is. I remember during the dot-com boom how every stupid idea was getting money thrown at it. Nothing has changed. Even today, people figure they'll just copy what someone else is doing, and that is "good enough to make a fortune to teh moon!"

      Of course, when you ask them what the ultimate revenue model is - uh, well, um ...

      Everyone falls back on advertising, forgetting that if you partner with an ad company (google, yahoo, etc) you cut your revenues by a lot, and you're not offer

      • I wonder if the VCs have gotten any smarter. I respect John Doerr greatly. In the late '90s, everyone "respected" him, but most of his "fans" didn't even understand what had made him so successful. Doerr invested in high-tech and internet businesses that made Kleiner Perkins a lot of money. But then all the VCs, instead of seeing that the businesses that made Doerr and KPCB a lot of money had viable revenue models and at least plausible paths to profitability, some by creating new niches. Instead of le

        • Tell me about it - the place I quit (they offered me the #2 position after a shake-up) ended up going on to become a $225 million dollar sinkhole. I had told the VCs to stop throwing money into it when it was "only" a $25 million sinkhole.

          Them: "If we put another million into it, surely it will succeed. We're that close to market!"

          Me: "You've been 'that close to market' for two years. Nothing will change."

          So they put another million, then another 5, then spun it into something else, did the whole "re-

  • FTW:

    ...Kijiji offers similar services and is seen as a competitor to Craigslist with the biggest exception being that Kijiji has quite an extensive pets section. Kijiji's owner eBay is also a minority shareholder in Craigslist. In April 2008 eBay launched a lawsuit against Craigslist claiming that their executives were attempting to weaken eBay's investment, while in May of the same year, Craigslist filed a countersuit claiming Kijiji had stolen trade secrets and that eBay used misleading tactics to promot

    • Yeah, that's been one of the weirder situations.

      But on the job thing, it's not even a question of putting bosses on their knees - they're being just as much screwed over by the current way of doing things. Do you think they like spending good money on half-assed recruiters? So of course, when the candidate comes in, she had better be good, or else, because they've already invested capital in the process, and their expectation is "let's hope the recruiter didn't screw up again."

      That's why I'm boycottin

  • With pie charts [27bslash6.com] for his awesome groundbreaking idea.

    • Awesome! I really have to bookmark that one. Especially like the "a few hours AND 15 years of experience" quote. Very accurate. :-)

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