> After I paid $50 to jump 178 spots in line, I got a VIP number and texted again. By now I was hungry, so I ordered a dozen chocolate chip cookies. Five minutes and $26 later, they were supposedly on their way—but they never arrived, and I never heard why. I never got my money back, either.
> I’ve never once actually gotten what I wanted from Magic.
So we should be celebrating a "company" that takes almost a hundred bucks from this guy but doesn't deliver him anything at all. That's not a company or a service it's a walking disaster.
The people that are having sour grapes (if they exist at all) presumably have them because they work on startups that actually do things or solve problems and have some small measure of success but don't get Wired articles because they don't happen to be connected to YC dinners.
What about all the "ideas are worth nothing" dogma that permeates all of the startup literature? What about it's the execution that matters? Doesn't "product-market fit" require an actual product?
> I’ve never once actually gotten what I wanted from Magic.
So we should be celebrating a "company" that takes almost a hundred bucks from this guy but doesn't deliver him anything at all. That's not a company or a service it's a walking disaster.
The people that are having sour grapes (if they exist at all) presumably have them because they work on startups that actually do things or solve problems and have some small measure of success but don't get Wired articles because they don't happen to be connected to YC dinners.
What about all the "ideas are worth nothing" dogma that permeates all of the startup literature? What about it's the execution that matters? Doesn't "product-market fit" require an actual product?