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pab

In a long ago movie Arnold Schwarzenegger said something about pasta... or was it hasta la pasta??

Pasta cooking as a colloquium for internet startups and founders? This sounds daft. Even wet noodles are good with peas and carrots.

Knowing that you have come from a most excellent upbringing of Italian cusine; I find your comparison of starchy Noodles and Startups to be garlic fused, dill enhanced and offered with a smatttering of rosemary all around.

What happened? Did you eat to many meatball sandwiches or garlic parsley balls?

Noodles and cooking are an art and I am surprised to read that you may have complications figuring out how to cook liguini or other noodles after such a great exposure to the art of cooking pasta and preparing most excellent dishes. Chow Mein?

I think some of your family members would be glad to come over and help you prepare something better than limp noodles.

Hot water is a good start, along with some music, familia' and conversation. and if it tastes good your guests are going to like it just like a great internet start-up.

Speaking of which....

Dave Bruno

Is this the best comment I can get when I don't write about consumerism? Yikes!

pab

Perhaps it is the best for now as it is at present the only comment offered.

I thought an absurd humourous response was best at the time.

You wrote: Founders of successful startups know that if it tastes good, people are going to like it.

I disagree with that comment unless they are food oriented. The founders of successful startups have found there biggest success through Marketing to the tastes of the public and the public has a huge appettite for non-sense and useless websites.

Dave Bruno

Paul, yours is a valid opinion. And in one sense I would not dispute that some startups are worried more about the odd tastes of some trendy demographic. But I'm less cynical about the companies I respect. I really don't think that, say, 37 Signals or Panic or Flickr or many others are marketed to those with a huge appetite for non-sense. They all make great products that first and foremost "tasted good to their founders" who knew that other people out there wanted what they liked.

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