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Maybe this article is a PR piece. But I agree with that 'social' and non technology-focused startup ideas are overvalued currently by young enterpreneurs, by th
by nadam 16y ago
Maybe this article is a PR piece. But I agree with that 'social' and non technology-focused startup ideas are overvalued currently by young enterpreneurs, by the media and by investors.
As if those problems which existed 10-20 years ago would not exist anymore. As if those problems currently solved by 'old companies' and generating incredible amount of money, could not be solved better by some startups. Not enough startups are competing _directly_ against those old products like Microsoft Office, Adobe Photoshop, etc... Not enough young companies are based on deep technology. Almost everyone want to be rich quickly adding very little technology-wise to exisitng open-source stuff like Ruby on Rails. To use Zed's terminology I am half a 'long beard' half a 'product guy'. So I am trying to create something which is a product for people, but potentially can go quite deep technology-wise.