Tuesday, April 17, 2012

Elephants are not ordinary pets

Elephants are not ordinary pets

If you like pets, you are human. People have pets like dogs and cats or even parrots, some with strange pets like snakes and lizards. There are certain kind of pets we call "techies" "geeks" and "hackers". Some of these techies, geeks and hackers fancy to be entrepreneurs. The time has come when these people have discovered that having an elephant for a pet is the "in thing" and "cool". 

There is a big difference between the other pets and elephants. This most important difference is that elephants are hungry all the time and they eat a lot for breakfast, lunch, dinner and many snacks in between and are hungry to eat in the nights and weekends. They need to be fed big data all the time; or else, they starve to death. While starving, they are so hungry that they eat your bank accounts, the bank accounts of the venture capitalists and even the private equity companies. When they starve and die, you are left with a elephant size debt.

Make sure to feed these big elephants with healthy and nutritious food from the big data forest. If you feed the elephant junk food, they produce foul smelling dung, and in boat load quantities. No customers will pay for that kind of output!

Hey! You "want to be mahouts", are you listening to me? Make sure to go to the markets in the Big Data Forest and carefully and very selectively collect healthy and nutritious food 

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