promoter

The tweet by the "BBW party promoter" is on twitter; you can view it there.

A shameless self promoter, who gave off the impression that he had no integrity.

Guy Kawasaki is basically a PR guy and promoter who also does some VC stuff.

[0] Daniel J Bernstein - author of qmail, daemontools and long-time promoter\nof full disclosure.

In my opinion antibiotics should not be used as a growth promoter and only used to help sick animals.

Antibiotics are sometimes given to sick animals, but their main use is as growth promoters [1].

Rails, by contrast, came coupled with a wonderful promoter in DHH, and brought scores of front-end talent and PHP refugees into the fold from day one.

He isn't a money-grubbing asshole, or a shameless self-promoter, so most of the New SV Crowd probably has no clue who he is, or that he "matters.

My understanding is that Winer is an ardent self-promoter, quite opinionated, and rubs some people strongly the wrong way.

It's worth noting that the majority of the fees that the author complains about are not kept by Ticketmaster; they are kicked back to the event promoter.

Given that LiveNation is the by far the biggest promoter in the US, it would be an enormous risk for a venue to forsake Ticketmaster and go with an alternative.

> should not be used as a growth promoter and only used to help sick animalsThe issue is that a lot of animals get sick from being crammed together in small areas, unable to move, while living in their own feces and urine.

For any given project, who can tell exactly who the promoters are apart from the reputations they manage to build as they do various things in the development community or otherwise in the startup world.

"The effectiveness of synercid, a drug of last resort for the treatment of vancomycin-resistant infections, is threatened because of the use of virginiamycin as a growth promoter in chickens and pigs in the United States.

In almost every case but that extreme one, though, it is pretty hard to prove that a promoter never had any intention of making some good-faith effort to do the development, even if the promoter is flaky or uses bad business judgment in how funds are spent.

By definition, such a forum will invite submissions from promoters who are, variously, supremely gifted, naive and unrealistic, crafty and conniving, or just hopeful founders who see this is their best funding mechanism, whether it turns out to be good, bad, or mediocre at it plays out.

And in fairness, these requirements exist for good reasons, because for every artsy type that runs such an event in a reasonable responsible fashion, there's a greedy promoter that will do the same sort of thing for purely mercenary purposes and who is willing to sacrifice the safety of the guests on the altar of profit.