Morgan Blake

Building community marketplace platform First community, /fountain-pens, is live and growing. ex-Etsy, MIT, etc

[Morgan Blake @mcdblake]

@alexisohanian Genuine passionate community engagement ftw

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@Winterrose Omg you’re right. USAF nuclear missile silos perhaps biggest winners of all? I believe they’re still on floppies.

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@chrisfralic Mind boggling accomplishment in that era

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@Iromg This is a WILD tweet from the met police.

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@dorsetpolice @GBPolitcs So offenders in asylum hotels, which was, what, <600-ish people (0.15% of ~400k Bournemouth pop (depends which def you use), committed ~1% of sexual offenses. Meaning they are >6x more likely to commit these crimes than general pop (1.3% vs 0.2%).

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@tjparker This is the way. I found a competitor just copied a bunch of our stuff from our site. Only way forward is to just be better.

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@StateDept 💯

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@Comedyorwat @eBay Sadly completely par for the course for public boards (save for the 9 month part)

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Are you really pushing the boundaries if you're not getting regularly banned from online groups?

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@luoser What's the discount for having a primary bedroom instead of a master bedroom?

[Morgan Blake @mcdblake]

ebay: Oh, are you interested in memorabilia from a bygone era? You must like to drink generic cola.

Fun fact: "Friendly Cola" was the in-house soda created by Friendly's after a pricing dispute went south with Coca-Cola. Lasted just a few years.

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@carlrivera @nubank Congrats, Carl. Good luck!

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@RemyEcom @Molson_Hart @fmckinnon Yup

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@Molson_Hart This is so clearly illegal that their lawyers must have been told that they’d rather endure the risk and face the fines further down the road. Calculation that benefit would be net positive to Amazon.

[Morgan Blake @mcdblake]

@Molson_Hart Fair point. You don’t need something fundamentally different, you just don’t want a monopoly. But outside of Walmart or regulatory action, it feels like a new type of platform would be necessary to even start to enter the market.

[Will Ahmed @willahmed]

You have no experience.
You’ve never started a company.
You’ve never had a full time job.
Nike is going to kill you.
You’re a kid.
You don’t have technical skills.
You shouldn’t build hardware.
Apple is going to kill you.
You can’t build hardware.
You can’t measure heart rate non-invasively.
Athletes don’t care about recovery.
Under Armour is going to kill you.
It won’t be accurate.
You don’t listen.
You’re an ineffective leader.
You can’t recruit great talent.
You’re going to have to pay every athlete.
You can’t measure sleep non-invasively.
It’s too expensive to research.
Athletes are a small market.
The product costs too much to make.
The product costs too much to sell.
Your valuation is too high.
Consumers aren’t going to want it.
Hardware is too hard.
You should measure steps.
Fitbit is going to kill you.
You can’t build a marketing engine.
You can’t raise enough money.
You need a real CEO.
Google is going to kill you.
You can’t be a subscription.
You can’t build a brand.
You can’t do consumer in Boston.
Your valuation is too high.
You shouldn’t make accessories.
You shouldn’t make apparel.
Lululemon is going to kill you.
You can’t predict Covid.
Stay in your niche.
You are going to run out of money.
You can’t build a health platform.
Amazon is going to kill you.
You can’t measure blood pressure.
You can’t get medical approvals.
The market is too small.
You don’t understand AI.
The market is too competitive.
It won’t work internationally.
The supply chain is too complicated.
You can’t build an AI.
You can’t raise enough money.
It’s too competitive.
Healthcare isn’t going to want it.
…

Just keep going ✌️

[Morgan Blake @mcdblake]

@Lord_Talbot64 @ZackPolanski What country is that? By the flags I can only assume Gaza

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@TheICHpodcast As an American living in London, I can confirm this. Broadband/fiber, too.

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@markcecchini The coffee beans are supposed to go on top

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@upstatefederlst @plzbepatient True