I think that a big part of the problem is that the economy fundamentally doesn't make any sense anymore so it's impossible for entrepreneurs to predict what the

I think that a big part of the problem is that the economy fundamentally doesn't make any sense anymore so it's impossible for entrepreneurs to predict what the market wants. Nowadays, the market wants products made by companies whose founders have raised a lot of VC money and which are heavily advertised. If you're working on a product and you don't have good business connections, then you should make your product as perfect as possible because otherwise you don't stand the slightest chance in this economy. It used to be that your product had to be 10x better than the competition in order to make any impact, nowadays, 10x better is not enough to even be noticed; consumers just follow the capital.