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Have startups run out of ideas?

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7 pointsjmorin0078 comments

I read the post and was left waiting for the punchline... Where is the argument for startups having run out of ideas? I mean there is not connection between the PG paper (a list of submission topics he would like to see) and the title of startups having run out of ideas.

Anyway, it's just a very shortened talk about PGs paper. Does anyone find anything in the post actually interesting?

Well, this might be a good example for PG's request #3: "New News".

My initial inclination is to deride the Guardian's obvious lack of ideas -- it's easy for me to laugh at this me-too article, because I'm a news.yc reader already. But from the point of view of a Guardian reader who has barely heard of PG, this might be a very good article. It certainly reflects my opinion that journalism would be better if it spent more time linking people to good content written by credible experts and less time misquoting them, jeering at them for being mere "bloggers", or trying to pretend that ignoring them will make them all go away.

But, yes, the title makes no sense and is obvious linkbait. Amateurish linkbait. The Guardian's editors need to hire some linkbaiting consultants with Digg experience.

I absolutely agree with this. The article title seems like little more than something mildly controversial to lure clicks. The author using this title and then stating that two of Graham's ideas are something she needs only proves it: no.

PG's way of email is precisely mine. In fact my inbox is actually renamed to ACTION and I've written before about how I manage email: http://www.jgc.org/blog/2007/06/measuring-my-inbox-depth.htm... and http://www.jgc.org/blog/2006/01/how-i-manage-email.html

I use a combination of automatic filtering (i.e. POPFile), fast keyboard shortcuts, and public shame (I publish the number of items in my inbox on my web site) to keep it under control.

Startups didn't run out of ideas, its just that the simple stuff that you can do on your own, has been done to death, and the VCs are too enamored with the "easy" stuff, trying to get a piece of the pie, that they don't want to take the risk on something complicated which involves a much higher investment. I mean look at all the web companies getting funded in the startup phase, most of them are pretty small investments.

No.

"Everything that can be invented has been invented." - Charles Duell, 1899

he was wrong.

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