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posted by Fnord666 on Saturday April 22 2017, @03:11PM   Printer-friendly
from the squeezing-green-from-a-VC dept.

http://www.npr.org/sections/thetwo-way/2017/04/21/525055713/juicero-ceo-says-luxury-juicer-is-much-more-than-juice-internet-is-unimpressed

Juicero, a startup that sells a pricey juice press, found that out firsthand. The company's Wi-Fi-enabled machine produces cold-pressed juice out of packets sold exclusively to owners via subscription.

Received as both Silicon Valley cautionary tale and commentary on conspicuous consumption, Juicero's story was chronicled this week in a Bloomberg News piece.

[...] In all, the company raised some $120 million.

But Bloomberg says investors' confidence waned once it emerged that people didn't actually need the press to get juice from the packets but could simply squeeze it out by hand.

A Silicon Valley startup slain before it could blossom into a unicorn.

[Ed. Note: Also at ExtremeTech with a bonus link to Juicero's very silly marketing video.]


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  • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @03:49PM (10 children)

    by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @03:49PM (#497951)

    Where I will just start ranting like a maniac and presumably some very rich idiot will give me 100 million $ for whatever hair brained insanity come out of my mouth since that is how it seems to work!

    FFS it's no wonder there is no functioning economy

  • (Score: 2) by takyon on Saturday April 22 2017, @04:24PM (9 children)

    by takyon (881) <reversethis-{gro ... s} {ta} {noykat}> on Saturday April 22 2017, @04:24PM (#497957) Journal

    Michael David Crawford will be the next SV billionaire

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    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @04:33PM

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @04:33PM (#497958)

      You mean he's not already? But he talks so much? Aren't the smooth-talkers always filthy rich? Whatever happened to that proprietary closed-sourced money-making trading-software scam he invented? Why isn't MDC a trillionaire by now?

    • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:04PM (7 children)

      by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:04PM (#497966)

      You mean this guy?

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      • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:17PM (6 children)

        by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:17PM (#497978)

        You mean the genius inventor of libmdc ?

        http://www.warplife.com/source-code/libmdc/ [warplife.com]

        Naming a whole lib after himself, MDC is a regular DJB, he sure is!

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        Our own MDC can do more! Name some more things mdc!

        • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:25PM (5 children)

          by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:25PM (#497982)

          Yep I'm now lost I have no clue who any of these people are I'm a terrible programmer and suck a famous people.. bands, movie stars, reality TV people I don't know most of them so all I have to inform me is the sad failure of google

          • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:30PM (4 children)

            by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:30PM (#497983)

            Google is too famous for me. I only use tinfoil hatter search engines like DickDickGo or DicksQuick.

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:33PM

              by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @05:33PM (#497986)

              Sorry I don't swing that way, but thank you

              also I still don't know who any of them are

            • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @07:35PM (1 child)

              by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @07:35PM (#498035)

              Jesus, someone is bent out of shape about privacy advocates. Embrace Google! Google is life, Google will fix everything with COMPUTERS!

              • (Score: 0) by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @07:50PM

                by Anonymous Coward on Saturday April 22 2017, @07:50PM (#498041)

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            • (Score: 0, Troll) by Ethanol-fueled on Saturday April 22 2017, @08:31PM

              by Ethanol-fueled (2792) on Saturday April 22 2017, @08:31PM (#498056) Homepage

              DuckDuckGo has been compromised by Jews.