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For those standing off to the side: Are there an awful lot of startups doing similar looking things? Yes. EDIT: It is getting increasingly difficult to see ac

by jfb 15y ago

For those standing off to the side: Are there an awful lot of startups doing similar looking things? Yes. EDIT: It is getting increasingly difficult to see actual technology companies through the haze of consumer internet startups, many of which are indistinguishable "the <some startup that got bought> of <some market>" roadkill. EDIT 2: Not that technology companies are the only ones that can be profitable; but many of the small startups are positioning themselves as technology companies, because they don't have any other conceivable identity.

draggnar 15y ago
Social is a bubble. Sharing information is going to continue to get easier, and i agree that distinguishing the various services is increasingly difficult. But i do not buy the x of some market argument. The ebay of space has built a new type of marketplace. "Startup" is a way to say an organization that does not follow the rules of the industrial revolution. Social technologies are a bubble, but there is a distinction between social technologies and technology in general, and startups aren't exclusively business models of the former.