1. Ridiculously overpromise on what you're going to create ("the Macintosh of X")
2. Come out with a marginally interesting clone of something that's already been done to death (wikis, blogs, CMSs, project management, todo lists -- must be highly data driven). Promise to do one feature a day for a month or so and keep it up for about half a week
3. Merge with other sites that are doing better
4. Do jack shit - actually, work on ridiculously overambitious "side projects" on "the weekend". A book is a suitably ridiculous project. Also make sure everyone knows that you read a book a week. The world trembles before your intellectual might.
5. Take your share of the money when the people you're mooching off of get bought
6. Bitch and moan
7. Run like hell
8. (Profit was at step 5.)
9. Blog about all this to make you look like a fucking genius and say that you "finished" things you briefly mentioned doing but never actually started.
2. Come out with a marginally interesting clone of something that's already been done to death (wikis, blogs, CMSs, project management, todo lists -- must be highly data driven). Promise to do one feature a day for a month or so and keep it up for about half a week
3. Merge with other sites that are doing better
4. Do jack shit - actually, work on ridiculously overambitious "side projects" on "the weekend". A book is a suitably ridiculous project. Also make sure everyone knows that you read a book a week. The world trembles before your intellectual might.
5. Take your share of the money when the people you're mooching off of get bought
6. Bitch and moan
7. Run like hell
8. (Profit was at step 5.)
9. Blog about all this to make you look like a fucking genius and say that you "finished" things you briefly mentioned doing but never actually started.
Yes I know, he has money and I don't.