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Alcohol Fuelled Bubble
Like the South Sea Bubble, the Tulip thing and the Dot Com bubble
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Cultivate a notion that the most progressive and innovative business direction and strategy comes from startups whose staff spend all day drinking. The liberation of the drunken frame of mind is such a paradigm jump that it allows escalated creativity plateaux multiplier leverage. Automatically. The downsideeffects of constant drunkenness is simply something you have to live with in this newnewnew economy, if you want to be somewhere else.

Drunk companies will attract insane amounts of instant vc funding, based on the falsehood of free idea flow and telling it how it is, based on the obvious kings new clothes of unshackled irrational ignorance of consequences. This is the ultimate 'what if' attitude. Invest now. Queue here.

Candidates for technology and marketing startup companies will succeed not on the basis of their cv, but on being 'discovered' or headhunted on a friday night in a drunken haze.


Ian Tindale, Apr 21 2005



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       I thought this was done, with weed, during the dotcom bubble.

david_scothern, Apr 21 2005
  


 
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