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Oldie but a goodie. What's impressive is that '?' often works itself out.
In visible cases, yes, it often does, but that's because they already have mindshare and often users who are invested in the service. However, this ignores the other 99% of startups with no business model, who silently fail.
Does this predate the Slashdot meme?
Considerably so, yes.
As funny and cleverly satirical as South Park is, I don't think this belongs on HN.
You must admit, this scene is a lot more on topic than a lot of other submissions.
That's the old Web 1.0 startup scheme. Web 2.0 changed phase 2 from "?" to "Banner ads/Get bought by Google".
And Phase 3 has been removed. "Agile" teaches us to simplify, after all.