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by Sarah Lacy on November 29, 2009
There was one complaint I heard over and over again from Indian entrepreneurs during my three weeks shuttling between Delhi, Jaipur, Bangalore, Mumbai and Pune: There aren’t enough angel investors in India.
Now, truth be told, that’s a complaint I also hear in the American heartland, in Canada, in Europe, in Africa, in China and, well, pretty much everywhere I’ve traveled to over the last few years. I’m not sure people ever feel they’ve got enough money being thrown their way.
But there is definitely something that makes Silicon Valley and Israel different from almost everywhere else I’ve been. Both have a wide base of people who made lots of money in the late 1990s Internet boom: The Yossi Vardis and the Marc Andreessens, but also hundreds of lesser known stock option recipients who may not want to start another company, but want to stay in the game $10,000 or so at a time.
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I’m a consumer. The people I love are consumers. Indeed, everyone I know is a consumer. I also teach consumer research and analysis. And let me tell you, most of us consumers not only can’t spot garbage, we lap it up. Examples:
- Take the movie “GI Joe.” Critics called it a “gaseous emission,” yet it’s made over $130 million to date.
- For years, professional wrestling was the hottest thing in spectator sports, even though it was actually scripted by former soap opera writers. (I met two of them.)
- MLM’s are a proven waste of time and money, yet millions still flock to them.
- Toyota advertises its Prius (a.k.a. “The Pious”) as good for the environment, when it’s simply less destructive than other cars.
- Fox News, which is as garbage as garbage gets, is the number-one rated “news” network.
- A Texas direct marketing wizard named Karl Rove hoodwinked the working class into voting against their own interests by electing Garbage W. Bush twice.
- Finally, to be bipartisan for just a moment, our recent gubernatorial freak parade of Palin, Spitzer, Blagojevich and Sanford proved that the worst hypocrites can get elected to run entire states — and even be considered for the Presidency.
So consumers can spot the garbage? Really?
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