Ironic Quotes - Startup Predictions
Someone just tell you that your idea won't work? Someone just tell you nobody will ever buy your product? An investor just turn you down? <br><br> Fantastic, you're in great company! <br><br> Here's a collection of early predictions about market beating products, uttered before they went on to win. These ironic quotes were uttered by investors, competitors, reporters, and even a few consultants. <br><br> To make things fun, we turned each of them into a cryptogram puzzle, with a couple of clues (who said it, a hint about the topic). Unscramble the puzzle to see the quote!
- Traditional Business
- ▶ Fedex Proposal Grade: The concept is interesting and well-formed, but …
- ▶ A cookie store is a bad idea. Besides, the market research reports say…
- ▶ With over 50 foreign cars already on sale here, the Japanese auto indu…
- ▶ Due to the low cost of carbon paper, no more than 5000 copiers would b…
- ▶ The abdomen, the chest and the brain will forever be shut from the int…
- Communications & Publishing
- ▶ This 'telephone' has too many shortcomings to be seriously considered …
- ▶ The wireless music box has no imaginable commercial value. Who would p…
- ▶ TV will never be a serious competitor for radio because people must si…
- ▶ The truth in no online database will replace your daily newspaper, no …
- Computing
- ▶ I have traveled the length and breadth of this country and talked with…
- ▶ So then we went to Hewlett-Packard, and they said, 'Hey, we don't need…
- ▶ People won't want to play these electronic games for more than a week,…
- ▶ No one will need more than 637kb of memory for a personal computer. 64…
- ▶ There's no chance that the iPhone is going to get any significant mark…