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Any insults that Ted Dziuba receives are well-deserved.

He's written dozens of trollish articles on how useless other startups are or how he hopes they'll fail. It seems fair to me that people are insulting his failure to produce a successful startup when he's spent so long being a hypocrite. You can't expect to be the Glenn Beck of startups and not be on the receiving end of the trolling.

Here are some of his headlines from Uncov, incase you've forgotten his work:

    "Fanboy Driven Development with Arc"
    "Paul Graham, Just Shut Your Face Already"
    "RockYou Dominates The Fake Business World"
    "Surprise, Mahalo Still Blows"
    "Mahalo Is Hawaiian for Useless"
    "Guy Kawasaki Should Stick To Contentless Blog Posts"
    "Web 2.0: So easy a 14 year old can do it"
    "Middio: Another Marginally Useful Feature As A Product"
    "WriteWith: Everybody Point and Laugh"
    "YouOS: YouHave To Be Kidding Me"
    "Wellsphere's Fail Tale, Part 2"
    "Firefox Fanboys: The Only People More Dangerous and Less Competent Than ..."
    "Did Enron Cause Web 2.0?"
    "Web 2.0 Amateur Hour: Sputtr"
    "VoSnap: An Overnight Delivery Of Fail"

http://www.reddit.com/domain/uncov.com

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I actually liked all of those articles, except the Paul Graham one, which was part of later Uncov. Back in the day, Ted had the knack for saying exactly what needed to be said about a lot of ego-laden fellows. He's more a critic than he is a builder; I'm one of those weird fellows that thinks a critic is a valuable part of any ecology.

I'm fine with negativity as long as you're saying something useful. The OP just snarked without any meaningful criticism; I attempted to criticize him and got downvoted to the depths of Hades, which I guess is how it goes sometime. For all his numerous failings, I still like Dziuba more than I dislike him, especially when he insults somebody along with a well-delivered counterpoint rather than just insulting.

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http://antoniocangiano.com/2009/01/28/lets-all-grow-up/