Startup companies’ death and why that happens

Oh yeah.

I always wondered why the heck are there so many ’startups’ in our era. Nowadays lots of people seem to be jumping on  the bandwagon of ‘oh, let’s do a company, pure SAAS, and earn some money with it. In some way I understand the urge, and can somehow sympathize with them. Still there are just too many of them. And it shows.

Techcrunch’s deadpool page

Too many ideas, so few good ones. That’s it, in a nutshell. I also have my own company and have a few ideas, but do not want to hurry up with it. There are some good ideas that turned out to be successful. We have Mark Zuckerberg with his facebook and he’s still in his twenties. Then yahoo and google were also incorporated by some younger guys (no women here… it’s still men’s play?) in the middle - late middle of the 90’s. Not so long ago. Then myspace. And from the hungarian marketplace we have iwiw. 

Social media seems to be a big thing these days. Twitter - I do not get it - I think letting people know what the fuck I am doing in any given time is none of their business, and besides if someone has the time to read about other people’s daily routines (in a few sentences) then my advice to them: “go get a life, sucker” Do not take it to your heart if you’re one of them. There are always exceptions to the rule.

All in all - I think people should think twice before getting down on developing something that no one needs, really. There are lots of buzzwords nowadays, and despite being enthusiastic about something is usually a good thing - not thinking about your idea from other people’s point of view can be a disaster.