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Finally! I was looking for a source of new ideas for my articles on swombat.com. Next on the list:

Your Idea Is The Last Thing You Should Be Thinking About

How to Fire a Great Bash Programmer

The Death of Twitter

Leading scientist: Edw519 Discovers Fifth State of Matter

Official: Farmville Creator Completes Grand Unification Theory

and finally:

Startups: How I Sold my Company to Google In Less than a Week Using Only Git

Hilarious.



My favorite:

Watch How Insects Controlled By A Computer Capture Wild Giraffes

But a majority of these are realistic:

Secret Details Leaked of Apple Killer Product How I Learned C++ in 20 Days Startups: How I Wrote a Top-Ten App In Two Hours Using Only A Small Javascript Widget Secret Details Leaked of Bing Killer Product


I would love to see this article: "3-Year-Old Makes 120K In 2 Months With Clever DropBox Hack"


"Startups: How I Closed My First Round of Financing In 34 Seconds Using Only A Rusty Can of Beans"

If somebody could honestly write that, I would read it (And probably upvote it too!)


> If somebody could honestly write that, I would read it (And probably upvote it too!)

Today, I met Jack, a former hobo from the east side who turned everything around when he got some seed money by threatening to cut a passer-by with a rusty can of beans. Less than a minute later, he used this to bootstrap his run-anywhere cloud access application, 'Beanstalk', which went on to make him the success he is today. There's a lesson in this for other entrepreneurs: are you hungry for success like Jack? Have you considered using every resource at your disposal, even a rusty can of beans?

Stay tuned for part two: 'Run your web company from jail and lower overhead by 98%!'


Startups: How I Closed My First Round of Financing In 34 Seconds Using Only A Rusty Can of Beans


That looks a bit dishonest, actually.


I got just one after another: The Death of Google, The Death of Facebook, and the Death of Twitter. That's a lot web companies going titsup ;-)


Six swombat Headlines You Must Know.


Effective Lean in VB

AAAAAAHH




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