Can’t say I’m surprised. When the mobile app market began and cloud computing was becoming a thing and social media was connecting more people than ever, it se

Can’t say I’m surprised. When the mobile app market began and cloud computing was becoming a thing and social media was connecting more people than ever, it seemed like everyone suddenly had an idea for a hot new app. I remember fielding calls from people who wanted mobile apps developed when they had no business being in this industry. Many of them seemed like the types who would be easily swayed by stories of people becoming overnight millionaires off of one simple app. I remember Startup Weekend events were blowing up all across the country and people would go to these events and take them very seriously, no matter how ridiculous or derivative the ideas pitched were. I remember reading articles hypothesizing about where “The Next Silicon Valley” would be, and people trying very hard to host “events” to make their hometowns into that. Of course, Silicon Valley itself had become nothing more than a cesspool of startups with ideas built on short term thinking and fastest possible growth. A startup scene built on hype like this is not sustainable, at least not without a major pullback at some point.