loslosbaby commented on Wake me when the recession is over

""What, me worry?""

loslosbaby commented on October e-commerce up a humiliating 1 percent

"We're in the e-commerce business as a store provider and its looking good for our stores now."

loslosbaby commented on Microsoft in the dark about Facebook's finances

"Revenue is the new revenue. Let them eat ads."

loslosbaby commented on Facebook engineer stumped by Facebook-Salesforce.com news

"Maybe they can combine it with Amazon Mechanical Turk, as well as some game shows and harness 100,000 people for the "ask the audience" questions. Then, perhaps, I would care about Facebook."

loslosbaby commented on Traffic is the new profit

"Saying "Traffic is the new profit" is like saying "my customers will pay for their results, and, for ours too." Who's paying for all this?"

loslosbaby commented on Google herds contractors into "zones"

"I've contracted all my professional life, and let me tell you this...after the Googlepoodle is further screwed, they'll lay off a ton of regular FTE's and then replace them with an elite cadre of deniable consultants, who will parachute in, and eat MRE's while tumbleweeds blow through the (by then) 194 cafes. "Hey, look, we've got an application store, but, well, wait, sorry, we can't sell anything, but yeah, you should develop for it, really, its gonna be cool."

loslosbaby commented on Bram Cohen invokes the Asperger's defense

"He's got a bad case of Jeremy-Piven-on-Entourage-Itis? To quote JP...."Get the FLOCK out of here!""

loslosbaby commented on "It's always darkest before it's pitch black"

"@blantonl: The reason they don't adhere to these rock-solid principles in "easy times" is that they are banking (get it?) on the raiding of the VC money. See, VC money (from the point of view of someone that grew up on the street) in its traditional sense is a dual-sided-rip, and their commission fees ("Carry") reflect it."

loslosbaby commented on "It's always darkest before it's pitch black"

"@CuthbertButeo: The business plan of most companies in the Valley is "spend money" and when you turn to page 3, its "spend money on salaries". The plan is "re-do my boat's hull, and oh yeah, my wife's kitchen is being worked on 3 shifts by 3 different contractors so its done before the IPO." Carpe Carcas(tm) G."

loslosbaby commented on "It's always darkest before it's pitch black"

"And now, for a message from the real world: Sequoia has decent advice, but, its something from one pirate to another, "take it easy on the wine women and song guys, or, you'll lose your ship and have to get a real job, and really work." I say, spin the wheel and close 50% of them randomly."