[smegmalife]

Absolutely agree with this. The $400 and two days are much better spent growing a business.

I've always found that the local meetups and events consist of more wantrepreneurs than actual entrepreneurs. I've stopped going to them.

[Jugurtha]

Yeap. I've been invited to many events, and I never went. An event where most people think they'll change the world (which is not bad per se) but who also think they're smarter than "the others" is kind of crap.

I often see that this crowd is addicted to the "movement" itself, not to getting things done. Meaning they like stories and knowing who bought who, etc. I've talked to too many, and they have crappy ideas they would've known are crappy if they've ever talked to another person about it.

They like to use jargon (A/B testing, alpha gamma shit rays and what not, to seem like they're really doing stuff).

There's someone who posted a blog post that his website is now open to the public and that beta testing has ended and people don't need invites to sign up. I tried to sign up, and I got prompted for an invite code. How dumb must someone be, to take care of the blog before taking care of the actual code?

I emailed him telling him his site still prompts for an invite(what's worse, is that he managed to take off the input field, but didn't change the code to account for that).

He didn't reply. He wrote an API that used a non HTTPS website, flagged by myWOT as malicious.

The app he was trying to make was about a wallet, to handle payments.

How much retard (excuse for the word) one needs to have in himself to manage that combo?

I saw him bitch about life on TV, that the authorities don't do anything to encourage inventions and young entrepreneurs. Um, yeah buddy. It's the others' fault, always. (And I sent emails to him warning him about these things: site flagged, impossible to register to the site, etc).