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Your Edgy Startup Idea Is Stupid
First it was glitter and dicks. Then it was on-demand everything. Then it was breasts. Startups, please: stop. 2015 has been the year of the awful idea. It began early on this year with a number of services that wanted to send your enemies glitter and cardboard penises. They had all the trappings of a traditional startup – media blitzes, wild founders, and wacky ideas about social interactions. “Ever wonder what gummy dicks look like when they...
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It seems foolish to demand startups stop doing something that is working. Just because it's viral and short lived doesn't make it unsuccessful as long as the company realizes their idea won't last them forever. The author also assumes theses startups are meant to be someone's livelihood. If someone goes into an idea as a side project, it doesn't matter if they're known as "the guy that sends dicks." The only problem I see with viral popularity is often people ARE doing it as a side project and then suddenly get overwhelmed by the sheer popularity of their product because they didn't plan for it to grow so big.
Seriously. Pet rocks, mood rings, and chia pets were stupid ideas that made quite a bit of money long before there was "viral" anything.If it's stupid and makes money, it 'aint stupid.