South Park Sums Up Most Web Startups

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Pe6kGJDGctU

by jasonlbaptiste • 17 years ago

22 10 17 years ago

Oldie but a goodie. What's impressive is that '?' often works itself out.

daeken2• 17 years ago

In visible cases, yes, it often does, but that's because they already have mindshare and often users who are invested in the service. However, this ignores the other 99% of startups with no business model, who silently fail.

joechung• 17 years ago

Does this predate the Slashdot meme?

daeken2• 17 years ago

Considerably so, yes.

alaskamiller• 17 years ago

This is where the Slashdot meme came from.

snprbob86• 17 years ago

As funny and cleverly satirical as South Park is, I don't think this belongs on HN.

smithjchris• 17 years ago

Typical HN attitude. Head up arse.

zepolen• 17 years ago

You must admit, this scene is a lot more on topic than a lot of other submissions.

Rawsock• 17 years ago

That's the old Web 1.0 startup scheme. Web 2.0 changed phase 2 from "?" to "Banner ads/Get bought by Google".

jrockway• 17 years ago

And Phase 3 has been removed. "Agile" teaches us to simplify, after all.

South Park Sums Up Most Web Startups

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