Twitter is the Leeroy Jenkins of Start-ups

July 27, 2007 in: thoughts|Jump To Comments

After reading Paul Kedrosky’s commentary today (The Twitter Lesson: No Business Plan Please) on how Twitter succeeded in securing VC money because of, not in spite of, their complete lack of a business plan, I was struck by a thought.

Twitter basically pulled a Leeroy Jenkins – let all those other fools stand around, crunch numbers, and plan. We’ll just get in there screaming:

“Alright, time’s up, let’s do this. Twitterrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrrr!!!!”

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Alan

July 27, 2007

LOL. great correlation and the leroy jenkins clip is a classic.

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