<story><title>Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0</title><url>http://zachholman.com/2010/10/facelette-on-techcrunch-in-three-hours-and-zero-dollars/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>cyen</author><text>I like this quote best -&lt;p&gt;&lt;i&gt;I’ve also come to loathe this mentality, at times. It’s the same mentality where someone whips up a two-page website and asks people to “review their startup!” I think startup is a phrase that’s been abused. You’ve made a project, or a mashup, or a hack, not a startup.&lt;p&gt;And that’s cool! Embrace that. More people need to do stupid shit. I mean that from the bottom of my heart. Don’t do it to make money. Don’t even do it to learn hip new technology X. Do it for the sake of doing something stupid&lt;/i&gt;</text></comment>
<story><title>Facelette: On TechCrunch in Three Hours and $0</title><url>http://zachholman.com/2010/10/facelette-on-techcrunch-in-three-hours-and-zero-dollars/</url><text></text></story><parent_chain></parent_chain><comment><author>tgriesser</author><text>&lt;i&gt;I’ve also come to loathe this mentality, at times. It’s the same mentality where someone whips up a two-page website and asks people to “review their startup!” I think startup is a phrase that’s been abused. You’ve made a project, or a mashup, or a hack, not a startup.&lt;/i&gt;&lt;p&gt;I think this is so true. A startup seems to imply that it will at least in theory become a business at some point. I bet that Facebook didn&apos;t even call itsself a &quot;web startup&quot; when it started out at Harvard until it started to spread and raised some real money.&lt;p&gt;To call every little project that someone hacks together in a weekend a startup is a misnomer, similar to the tendency for founders to give themselves C-Level titles in their startup companies which consist of nothing more than a prototye and a pitch, rather than just calling themselves &apos;founders&apos;.</text></comment>