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Sucky Startups

http://suckystartups.com

Startups that the Internet would be better without...

Added on: Jul 28th, 2007
Country: United States
Language: English

Author: Beegzzz
Listed in: Entrepreneurship Innovation
Tags: blog Web 2.0 entrepreneur website startups vc

Recent Posts

TheNextWeb: 15 Dumbest Names for Web 2.0 Startups

Posted on Monday October 13th, 2008 at 17:51 in Web 2.0, web2.0, commentary, dumb, names

This was a great post by TheNextWeb!15 Dumbest Names Some of my favorites from the list: ooVoo — what the hell were they thinking??!?? Oooooc.com — hehe, I’m imagining them spelling it to people over the phone…”o-o-o...
SkyDeck — Raises $3MM to **ENHANCE MY PHONE BILL**???!!!!

Posted on Monday September 29th, 2008 at 23:00 in Free, Web 2.0, Cell, genius, phone, sms, amazing, awesome, text, calls, txt, skydeck

In their own words, SkyDeck helps you keep track of your cell phone calls and text messages. Check who called you yesterday and how long it’s been since you spoke. Ahem…maybe it’s just me, but I already use an amazing tool to see w...
Rule #1: don’t invest in companies that have names that end in *ster

Posted on Friday September 26th, 2008 at 20:11 in myspace, commentary, Flickr, genius, funding, friendster, names, round, vc, give me a break!, series a, cramster

Cramster, an online study community, just raised a series A round of funding. Our economy is sliding off the face of the earth and VCs are still funding *ster companies?!?!?!?!?!?! Didn’t VCs stop funding *space metoo companies like a hundred y...
Who’s TurnTo going to Turn To when there’s no revenue

Posted on Sunday September 14th, 2008 at 16:36 in Other

TurnTo is a service where you can ask friends for help. The way it works is they sign up “great partners” (their words) to put a widget on their site. They current have four, top-tier Internet brands including the famous Angara, the house...
If only people would just read this blog instead of listening to hype, we’d avoid the “Pownce Effect”

Posted on Sunday August 31st, 2008 at 10:00 in commentary, Other, twitter, pownce, differentiated, startonomics.com, startup think tank

http://startonomics.com/blog/the-startup-think-tank-how-to-avoid-the-pownce-effect/ I called Pownce stupid well over a year ago. It’s still stupid. Who cares that Kevin Rose started it? I have my own advice above and beyond what startonomic...
AWWWWW MAAAAAN, YAHOO’S SHUTTING DOWN MASH. That’s my most useful and favoritest social network!

Posted on Saturday August 30th, 2008 at 07:56 in Web 2.0, Networking, yahoo, social, beta, down, mash, shutting, private beta, bad websites, will be out of business soon

Mash is shutting down. What a bummer! It was such a differentiated and unique social networking service. And it was so young–not even out of private beta with limited “invite only” accounts! What is Yahoo thinking?!?!?...