<story><title>A Redditor about the problem with today&apos;s Silicon Valley startup community</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/x7wah/dae_just_totally_ignore_the_startup_community_and/c5k7534</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dustincoates</author><text>&amp;#62;It seems like some people just want the founder title so they can broadcast to their LinkedIn network and impress people.&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of this quote from Ronnie Coleman: &quot;Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.&quot;</text></item><item><author>dglassan</author><text>I have similar feelings to this guy. I&apos;ve lived in the bay area my entire life, although I&apos;m only 25 so I was young during the dot com bubble.&lt;p&gt;My feelings are that Zuckerberg made it &quot;cool&quot; to start a company again. People had such a bad taste after the dot com bust and starting a company was viewed as very risky from around 2000 to 2005. Then Zuckerberg came in with this amazing success story and now everyone wants to start a company again.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it bothers me that people throw around the word &quot;startup&quot; so casually now. There&apos;s kids that are &quot;doing a startup&quot; but the only thing they&apos;re building is a gmail plugin or &quot;a better to-do list that will change the world&quot;. We don&apos;t need any more of this crap. It seems like some people just want the founder title so they can broadcast to their LinkedIn network and impress people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>dglassan</author><text>Exactly. I wanted to be a startup CEO for a while until I worked at an 8 person startup and saw just how much effort they put into it. Now I&apos;m not so sure, at least not right now in my life.</text></comment>
<story><title>A Redditor about the problem with today&apos;s Silicon Valley startup community</title><url>http://www.reddit.com/r/startups/comments/x7wah/dae_just_totally_ignore_the_startup_community_and/c5k7534</url></story><parent_chain><item><author>dustincoates</author><text>&amp;#62;It seems like some people just want the founder title so they can broadcast to their LinkedIn network and impress people.&lt;p&gt;Reminds me of this quote from Ronnie Coleman: &quot;Everybody wants to be a bodybuilder, but nobody wants to lift no heavy-ass weights.&quot;</text></item><item><author>dglassan</author><text>I have similar feelings to this guy. I&apos;ve lived in the bay area my entire life, although I&apos;m only 25 so I was young during the dot com bubble.&lt;p&gt;My feelings are that Zuckerberg made it &quot;cool&quot; to start a company again. People had such a bad taste after the dot com bust and starting a company was viewed as very risky from around 2000 to 2005. Then Zuckerberg came in with this amazing success story and now everyone wants to start a company again.&lt;p&gt;Sometimes it bothers me that people throw around the word &quot;startup&quot; so casually now. There&apos;s kids that are &quot;doing a startup&quot; but the only thing they&apos;re building is a gmail plugin or &quot;a better to-do list that will change the world&quot;. We don&apos;t need any more of this crap. It seems like some people just want the founder title so they can broadcast to their LinkedIn network and impress people.</text></item></parent_chain><comment><author>jfb</author><text>Absolutely true. That&apos;s a great quote.</text></comment>