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another obnoxious Park Slope couple for a product that Kraft already sells to the mass market.
I don't think we can blame Brooklyn for that one. My money would be on new construction in Hell's Kitchen or the UWS.
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With everyone so concerned that by signing up with Facebook we are giving away our privacy, along comes Doorman, who we will now be telling when we are home and when we are not.
And even if the drivers are vetted, they still will know when we're not at home. And if Doorman was hacked, yikes.
FreshDirect, Google Express, and eBay Now already have a pretty good idea of when I'm home and when I'm not. This is just an extension of that. Whether it's a bad thing or merely neutral I'll leave to others to decide.
Besides which, between in NYPD's omnipresent CCTV and whatever records the public transit system keeps, Big Brother has its eye on me already.
It's a trade off. Since according to UPS, the only people who actually work between 8 and 5 are UPS drivers, I'm stuck with an Amazon locker or an even longer hike to a UPS warehouse that isn't even in the same borough.
Doorman for me.
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I didn't understand a lot of the math with the sisters. I know there's editing, but it seemed like they said they did a million this year and were a million under? But they expected to do 10 million next year and that'd get them to break even? Sounds like their expenses must be obscene for that to work out. Plus the absurd salary.
Since none of the sisters has any experience in the technology field, they're having to pay developers to build the platform for them. Silicon Valley and the Bay Area aren't hurting for tech jobs, and the situation with Coffee Meets Bagel is a lot different than something like Mark Zuckerberg or Jack Dorsey for whom Facebook and Twitter were more homebrew than that. So they either have to pay pretty good wages or do a generous stock offering if the company were to become successful enough to become public.
Also, since they mentioned that they pull all of their data from Facebook profiles, and that might involve them paying Facebook royalty.
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It might be a matter of semantics (I get your point), but I still maintain that's a high salary to be taking given the company wasn't making money.
I completely agree with you, I was just getting in a dig at San Fran, a beautiful city that no mere mortal can afford.
I mean, I live in New York, where fully 25% of real estate exists as tax shelters, so I don't have a lot of room to complain.
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I forgot to mention the high salary the three women were taking, which also seems to be a no-no with the sharks.
By San Francisco standards, $100K each puts them into the lower middle-class.
Although I was frankly offended when the middle sister referred to it as a "significant pay cut" for them. It may not even have been the salary issue alone that soured the Sharks (other than Mark's disgust with how cagey they were being about their subscribers), it was just another set of MBAs who think they've re-invented the wheel.
After all the focus on it being a great thing for women (their website even says "The Only Dating App Women Love"), I was a little heartened to find that they do have an LGBT side as well, although you really have to dig through their website to find it.
Also, thank God I don't have to worry about dating any more.
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The Doorman concept is good, but I'd think they would need the blessings and cooperation of the big guys in the online shopping world. I missed if he said he had agreements with Amazon, Walmart, QVC, etc.
According to their website, they already accept shipments from all of the major US freight companies (FedEx, UPS, Postal Service). The retailers don't really care what address they send it to, so long as your credit card goes through.
He did mention the app's ultimate goal was to be a checkbox on Amazon and the like, but given what Amazon has invested in their Locker service, I don't know if they'd go for it. But personally, the nearest Amazon locker to me is about 40 blocks away, and is relatively small, so it fills up somewhat regularly. A service like this would be a godsend.
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I've been by the Bantam Bagels storefront on Bleeker Street. It's not exactly cronut-level popular, but if they're making their rent in a pretty pricey neighborhood, they must being doing something right. I have to admit, they looked pretty tasty. Stupid New Year's resolution. They should have gone with Barbara if they'd been able to get her down on the equity though.
When Doorman comes to New York, I am going to be a customer within about fifteen seconds.
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There's a teaser for one of the pitches here. It's not quite a spoiler, but it gives an impression of how the pitch is going to end up. I think it's thoroughly entertaining, but I would proceed with caution if you want to come into the episode completely blind.
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Looking At A Second Season, an article from Vulture about what to expect this time around.
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Personally, I don't know why it takes a quarter million dollars to set up a sock manufacturing business, but I don't know from business.
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What about Spike and Snake's son?
And perhaps either Liberty and JT's or Jenna and KC's son will return seeking his revenge.
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I always regretted that they never paired Sav and Holly J for real.
I suspect Alli may be mentally ill.
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This may be left field here but...unless Arlene is revealed to be on Grace's level of technological omnipotence, I suspect the writers are prepping Grace to be the surprise reveal of Zoe's blackmailer. I mean...who else besides her could mass text the entire assembly RIGHT after Zoe's speech?
Grace would be just as guilty as Zoe. I can't see her implicating herself.
I've never like Eli, particularly in his stupid great epic love, but I think he may have crossed into unforgivable territory.
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Yes, well Jenna isn't the brightest bulb.
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Maybe we should have a thread that's dedicated to the products as a catch-all beyond the initial appearances on the show?
Let us know how they do. I liked them, but considering my socks are among my cat's favorite toys, I don't know if I feel like investing in them just to have them end being dragged from one end of my apartment to the other.
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They could still name Clare's baby "Adam," regardless of who the father is. I kind of hope they do, actually.
I can neither confirm nor deny ending up with a lump in my throat when she suggested it
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That's an idiotic decision. People hatedwatched over the summer because there was nothing else on. I don't know if one hatewatchs a continuing series when there's actual new programming all over the dial.
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Which one is Lola?
The bubble-headed girl with the bubblegum hair.
Look, I know that a lot of cast members on Degrassi over the years have had some...ahem...unconventional looks, but Guyliner is really kind of unfortunate looking, and I don't think it's just the latter day Billie Joe Armstrong.
Ah, Miles. The high-flying, risk-taking, high-octane life of a weed addict, eh?
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I guess I'm in the minority here, because I thought the Desperate Housewife was overall kind of impressive. I was expecting her to irritate the crap out of me, and then she didn't. I suppose that's damning with faint praise.
I didn't care for the Q-flex or its preteen saleswoman as much as the sharks did.
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Also, can we please get an episode about Grace before she follows the well-trodden path of Ellie and Jane before her and ends up with all of her antisocial edges filed down?
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Guy said that Lori came in after the show and is now part of the deal. Says she wants to be Martha Stewart.
No matter how cold-blooded Lori thinks she is, she's got nothing on Martha Stewart.
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Have any producers of this show even smoked weed, or did they just do their research from old "Just Say No" pamphlets?
Look, I know they're not going to come out and say that it's okay to smoke pot, but do they have to be that ridiculous with what its use looks like?
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Still, I suspect the deal will fall apart in due diligence.
Kevin apparently still hasn't gotten his own wine into CostCo.
Also, they could have made a drinking game out of the number of times he said CostCo.
I kind of hated the couple with the ladies sports apparel. Because all ladies love sparkles and and sequins.
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I'm just glad to see Lynn is back. I was afraid Scott Bakula's commitment to NCIS: Bad Accents was going to prevent him from returning.
Is it wrong of me to wish they'd ditched Agustin and kept Frank instead?
ETA: Yay, Doris!
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S06.E13: Coffee Meets Bagel, SkinnyShirt, Doorman, Bantam Bagel
in Shark Tank
Based on other delivery services, most of them advise that tipping isn't expected, but welcome.
Also, with a decent population density, you could have one driver making two dozen stops in a single trip. And they have a subscription as well, so $20/mon which a lot of city dwellers would pay and then not use enough to make it a net negative for the company. Like Amazon Prime.
But, like I said, I'm their ideal customer. You're talking to a man who had a twelve-pack of toilet paper delivered from Target so I didn't have to make a two hour round trip on the subway.