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That’s of ‘consultants,’ ‘investors,’ and ‘incubators’ taking advantage of unsuspecting startups and first time entrepreneurs. They’ll couch it in language like ‘mentorship,’ ‘access,’ ‘experience.’
It’s actually predatory and evil.
The first grenade goes to “Shlok,” whose noir take on Friedman was really stirring — would make a great movie, like an upside-down, on-acid version of Out of the Past:
“The fact that Guardian Angels are on the streets trying to restore law just shows how out of control the situation is in lower Manhattan,” he added, referring to a group of anti-crime volunteers which operates in the city. Sign up for my newsletter.
(Or, how to be a Stephensonian Gargoyle.*) I know a little bit about this. In November 2008, I was using Twitter (before it was big) to live narrate the Mumbai attacks. Real-time analysis in 140 character counts (the graph is how small Twitter was), distilling multiple video and audio feeds, and even talking to people [...]