HAVE STARTUPS JUMPED THE SHARK?
Video via Bitsontherun
Vooza, the buzzy social startup with an as-yet-unreleased web app, recently revealed their product pitch in a tweet: “Vooza blends group messaging, recommendations, & local search in a way that’s real-time & customizable. Also, we steal credit card data.” And so begins my relationship with what I’d later discover is the world’s first fully-functional parody startup.
Start with their video (above), which declares their rejection from Y Combinator and their allegiance to acronyms of all shapes and sizes. Their irreverent Twitter feed is littered with modish startup lingo and references to tech culture in an almost always tongue-in-cheek voice—”If a programmer is working in Python, I drape an actual snake over his shoulders and say, ‘What can we learn from how this snake moves?’”
The best part? Despite the send-up, they have a working email submission/response form. Of course I signed up.
