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I suspect they would have strongly disliked Markus Frind because he can't write using proper grammar and punctuation. And, even worse, his site is total Microsoft fanboy stuff. Windows, SQL Server, ASP.NET, scaling to tens of millions of users and more money per month than all YC acquisition sums.

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Markus Frind is a moron who was in the right place at the right time. If you funded 1,000 of him, you'd lose on 999.

As we say in poker, even the blind squirrel finds an acorn some times. Markus Frind is a prime example.

I definitely wasn't defending him, I just think it bears repeating that you should build your stuff with whatever you're most comfortable with.

"What do you know about servers that Yahoo and Google don't?" Well, you'll probably never be Yahoo or Google and you don't have their same requirements, so if you get down with SharePoint 2007 Enterprise Solution Architect Server Plus Pro Home Business, go for it.

Markus says: "My short description leaves a lot out, but basically I spent every waking minute when I wasn't at my day job reading, studying, and learning. I picked out "enemies" and did everything I could to defeat them which ment being bigger then them. I refused to accept defeat of any kind, and I constantly forced myself to test new things. I never tried to perfect anything it didn't matter if things didn't work 100% as long as it was good enough I would move onto the next thing. In 2003 the dating market was growing 80% a year unlike the -10% in 2006 so growth was a LOT easier. When 2004 rolled around and word of mouth REALLY kicked in and as they say the rest is history."

http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/06/14/how-i-started-a...

Out of 500 applicants per year, a conventional VC might only fund 10. I don't think Markus is a shmuck at all.

You can say that again. I've never had my registration on a site deleted within half an hour. Until I tried pofish. Twice.

There's only been a couple of sites ever that pissed me off enough that I wouldn't ever try any site by the guy ever again.

He may have had some luck on his side, but he is most definitely not a moron:

Cited in the Fields Medal/Nobel prize in math: http://plentyoffish.wordpress.com/2006/08/30/cited-in-the-fi...

23 Primes in Arithmetic Progression http://primes.plentyoffish.com/

Prime Number Titan Page: http://primes.utm.edu/bios/page.php?id=187

The Defense Rests.

>Markus Frind is a moron

Not a very nice thing to say... really.

>who was in the right place at the right time.

You can say that about everyone who is successful.

Give us a little more credit; we may not be quite as dumb as you think.

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