Cranky Tweets for Week ending 3/20/2010

1. The Silicon Valley weather is so wonderful today that even the cranky product manager is having difficulty being cranky….
2. Let’s start a vicious rumor – that @TondinBanks is the “real” crankypm. He sounds like it, anyway. 11:35 AM Mar 17th via web
3. RT @chadmyers @crankypm like museums of stupid inventions from late 1800′s, in 100 yrs there’ll be museums of stupid #startup ideas of today 
4. RT @sctechman @crankypm If they call themselves “visionary” they usually aren’t. #prodmgmt
5. Oh fantastic. The Cranky PM was just told her summer intern req is being filled w the CEO’s partyboy son. Why is she not ecstatic. #prodmgmt
6. OK, startup weenies, raise ur hands – how many think your technology is “disruptive?” What? All of you? Guess what? YOU’RE WRONG. #prodmgmt
7. Every time a self-styled “visionary” claims he has a “disruptive technology,” the crankypm grinds a millimeter off her teeth. #prodmgmt
8. RT a2d2@crankypm Marketing to “everyone” is NP Complete and deserves a “if you figured out a good way to do it I have a Turing Award for you”.
9. RT chadmyers @crankypm VC funded startups are barely distinguishable from criminal organizations and often involve more lying and distrust.
10. Advice to PMs: Make sure the #startup founder is not a freakin’ lunatic before joining. Or a criminal. #prodmgmt
11. @MJM_PM – Hope you are enjoying the mug! Tell your friends (if u have any) to BUY one! :-) http://www.cafepress.com/crankypm
12. @benjaminhill – Hope you are enjoying the mug! Tell your friends (if u have any) to BUY one! :-) http://www.cafepress.com/crankypm
13. 25-yo VC-spreadsheet Boy, ur suggestion of targetting “everyone” is just what crankypm would expect fr someone w/o operational experience.
14. V irritated when 25 yo rich kid w no op experience claims he’s a Venture Capitalist. Wrong-o, dude! Ur the spreadsheet jockey! #prodmgmt
15. Cranky PM’s imitation of VCs: “synergy blah blah business model blah blah Twitter blah Google acquisition blah green social n/w” #prodmgmt
16. Bunch o suntanned white male robots w short hair, bluetooths, blue button-down shirts & khaki pants have arrived. VC invasion! #prodmgmt
17. Betting that all the “most extroverted introverts” (aka #prodmgmt) are EXHAUSTED after the intense social interaction of #pcamp10.
18. Had a great #pcamp10! The crankypm thx the organizers and sponsors. ‘Till next year…. #prodmgmt
19. Another free Cranky pm mug for #pcamp10 attendees. Behind the “It’s Y!ou” desk at top of stairs, 2nd floor. First person gets. 
20. The cranky pm is having her own #pcamp10 raffle. Left a free cranky mug in the room with the pool tbls under a chair. First person gets.
21. Headin’ to pcamp… If the Cranky Kid would just stop melting down and would hang out nicely with the babysitter. #prodmgmt

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