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I ignore most startup pitches. It's a truism that 9 out of 10 startups fail; relentlessly covering every one of them is mathematically a fool's game. But on occasion, I get one so bad that I feel obliged to share it with my readers, if only as a cautionary tale. CreateDebate, founder Bryan Orme informs me, "is a social networking site where users can create a debate about any topic they are interested in." His concept, in other words, is to compete with the entirety of the Internet. Feel free to debate the rest of Orme's startup pitch, reproduced here:

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