Always Good To Know What You AREN’T Doing
Dear Alexia, As promised, here are a list of twenty-five things my new company won’t be doing…
- Creating a rival to TechCrunch
Any other kind of blogging
Last minute hotel deals
Creating any kind of social network for xxxx
Giving a shit about your social graph
Printing books
Any other kind of gamification
A browser plugin that explains to blog readers why something “is news”
Anything that helps “brands” do anything with “social media”
ContentFarmville: (“social gaming + seo = profit!”)
Building a robot army to kill anonymous commenters
Developing a better Barbiecam
Adding soundtracks to crossword puzzles
Publishing a newspaper
Creating a crowdsourced database of Julian Assange’s hypocrisies
“I, Mac” – A gourmet Mac and Cheese franchise for hipsters
Selling fancy pens
Selling shitty pens
Badges
Airbnb for nap pods
A microblog platform for public resignations
Potterless: a virtual community for grown-ups who hate Harry Potter
Wifi on planes (note: this may already exist)
Dogs with tiny hats
Quora
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