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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Sep 21, 2012 - 08:45pm PT
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Nice try Kendall. Now, go home little boy and find something useful to do. Adios. Goodbye. Go have some cocktail shrimp with your uber pals.You are spending too much of your precious time on us Taco Standers.
Go, go away little bird, fly until you find freedom.
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jeff_m
Social climber
700' up
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Sep 21, 2012 - 08:45pm PT
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And your research will also tell you that that "fastest growing segment" is the least cash-rich (i.e. least amount of expendable income). Curious though, what did your research tell you about the climbing community?
Geez, this is all a troll, huh? I got suckered in with a full Phil Hendrie thing, didn't I.
Haha. Out!
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 08:46pm PT
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@Patrick Sawyer Oops I forgot to mention why if I "hobnob" with so and so, why would I come here. I come here because you guys are "the people". Some White House staffer or Stanford professor or fancy pants author is not going to use my site. Average people will. Maybe not you guys in particular perhaps. But that remains to be seen when the only introduction you have is not a dog pile.
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 08:49pm PT
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@jeff_m The climbing community is, like others, a very passionate and focused community. They do things that to most people is wildly impressive and that makes you guys a good community to put on a pedestal for others to "follow" and admire.
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Patrick Sawyer
climber
Originally California now Ireland
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Sep 21, 2012 - 08:54pm PT
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Okay, I'll bite. I have interviewed presidents (Clinton and Salinas, oops, sorry about the last one), prime ministers (Tony, Bertie and Margaret/Maggie - she was a pain - captains of industries, celebrities - try looking up at John Cleese, you need a ladder, of course I am only 5'6" - successful entrepreneurs, billionaires... and gobshites). Now dear Kendall, which of those categories do you fit in?
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Sep 21, 2012 - 09:09pm PT
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now who is trolling who??? ;)
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 09:09pm PT
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@Patrick Sawyer Oh, I fit in none of them except maybe the sole word "successful". I have successfully created opportunities for myself where others found none, over and over and over again. If you start in a campertrailer with roaches and fleas and you make it to the executive level at successful organizations, that is already relatively very far. If I plateau here that is fine. I've enjoyed my life and success so far. The upward momentum though shows no signs of stopping.
I don't really care to make the next big whatever. I at most would say that I have always wanted to provide a pleasant work environment for a team that I am leading. I have done that already and am still. Everything from here is just more good motion.
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 09:18pm PT
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@Greg Hey thanks man. And invitation is much appreciated. I will be sending a message to your admins very soon.
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Brandon-
climber
The Granite State.
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Sep 21, 2012 - 09:21pm PT
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One question, since you've garnered no supportive feedback, why do you keep trying?
I'm sure you have the best intentions. Making money, right? Ok, that was two questions.
Dude, you're barking up the wrong tree here.
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Nate D
climber
San Francisco
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Sep 21, 2012 - 09:25pm PT
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Instead of pandering and claiming to be some new revolutionary "tech company" be straight about what you really want, maybe more like "I want you to join my networking site thats excatly the same as the 10 others to come out this week so that I can track your personal information and sell it to the highest bidder". Your "tech company" is no more than a glorified data mining company, the fact you can't even properly address the community you're reaching out to makes that clear.
Seeing as you want feedback, I'd have to say I mostly agree with this, said earlier. However, I would add that the possible difference in your (likely misguided) endeavor is that unlike these other social networking sites mining for information, you are being blaringly up front about it in your mock up page/image/whatever. You immediately want people to mention products by name to get the ball rolling? Interesting. Very little transparency there. Good luck, esp. with this crowd. This forum is a homespun endeavor, a mom and pop of sorts, the real deal, warts and all. Your masterminded project seems the antithesis.
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 09:25pm PT
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@Brandon- I don't think anyone who knows me would say that I lack persistance. And I don't think anyone here would either at this point. When people I know ask me for advice on how to get where I have gotten, I always say two things, integrity and persistance.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Sep 21, 2012 - 09:31pm PT
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Hey Kendall, have you figured out what a "troll" is yet? You might want to google that one.
Edit +1 for the above comment. I was roflmao literally!
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 09:34pm PT
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@Nate D Mom and Pop places is exactly what we are after. That is even the exact phrase I used to describe to my assistant what I wanted for this list of forums. As far as us being the opposite of Mom and Pop, I don't know about that. I knew this small effort would be an ugly one on some communities so I wanted to get my hands dirty and do it myself. I don't think something that the opposite of a Mom and Pop would do.
Products are a mechanism of our platform the purpose ends just after the point of usefulness for the user. In other words, they use it like a means to find other people, kind of like a flag to draw a custom community to themselves, but after that, the purpose of the product is over. We are gathering all that data into a pile to sell or using it to push other products on anyone. This we have bound ourselves to in our privacy policy.
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Vitaliy M.
Mountain climber
San Francisco
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Sep 21, 2012 - 09:34pm PT
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Do you think your site will have more hot blonde girls (that climb) than rockclimbing.com?
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splitter
Trad climber
Hodad, surfing the galactic plane
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Sep 21, 2012 - 09:35pm PT
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kendull,
dood, we don't give a damn if ya use "mustard" or "mayo" on yer sammich. what matters most around here is; are ya a dirtbag or an urban yuppie?
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 09:36pm PT
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@Big Mike It's my understand that a troll needs to be like ugly and troll-like to be a troll: throwing insults just to get their kicks and the like. I don't see myself doing that anywhere on this board. How do you define troll?
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survival
Big Wall climber
Terrapin Station
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Sep 21, 2012 - 09:39pm PT
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Wow, you guys haven't run the poor bastard off yet?
I reward him with the SuperT persistence award, a picture of my sister!
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 09:40pm PT
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@splitter "kendull" :) that's good. I don't think anyone has ever come up with that one.
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kendallc81
climber
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Topic Author's Reply - Sep 21, 2012 - 09:42pm PT
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@survival is that really your sister? She looks very serious.
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Big Mike
Trad climber
BC
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Sep 21, 2012 - 09:49pm PT
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You pretty much got it. It also can mean representing something you really are not for the purpose of a laugh, or to get a reaction.
Not to say necessarily that is who you are, but some here are suspicious of anyone hiding behind an avatar.
That greg guy was repping for mountain project a couple days ago until he got roasted by a user here when he was talking to the admins at mt proj.
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