Top 35 Startups in Tech - July 2012

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12 points·francov88··8 comments

There's a reason TechCrunch passed on them. Except for Zagster (Bicycle Rental Marketplace), Tweaky (Marketplace for small website changes) and maybe RocketLease (Electronic Lease Applications), these startups strike me as painfully mediocre.

Tom here from Scirra (#7 on the list).

Quite brutal to review all 35 of them as 'painfully mediocre' in under 30 minutes!

Hey Tom

I've actually played AirSpace and your product looks great. Sorry I lobstered* you in with the rest. The marketplace is an interesting concept - I wonder if you'll eventually earn more from that than your product?

I'll take a closer look at those startups. There may be a few undervalued ideas because their names are bad or copy is generic.

*Do consider changing the Lobster font. It's the new Comic Sans).

I question the credibility of such lists. The article does not base any sort of criteria apart from "cool" and "purposeful" in judging these firms. Are these compiled in terms of user accounts/web traffic/vc funding levels etc, besides they are overwhelmingly "web" oriented. To keep web 2.0 running we need network 2.0 and infrastructure 2.0 running and innovating. Its sort of sad that very little press is devoted to making web 2.0 possible.

I love lists like these - esp. when they are the little guys you never hear about.

Top in what regard? I understand that they were startups "TechCrunch missed out on," but this looks just like a list, not a ranking.

Super cool !

*that techcrunch missed out on

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