Stop Building Apps and Start Disrupting Industries

Re:Stop Building Apps and Start Disrupting Industries by revorad on Monday May 16, 2011 @11:13AM (#2552766)

I don't know enough details about your or Square's technology and business, but every time I see you complain about how no one supports true disruption and even the cool new startups are doing the same old thing, I remember this video by Sean Murphy on technology adoption:

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=_4h68mrzuwc

I hope it will help you and you will take my comment as constructive criticism.

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Re:Stop Building Apps and Start Disrupting Industries by thinkcomp on Monday May 16, 2011 @11:23AM (#2552799)

It's a good video and an interesting graphical representation of the problem I hadn't seen before. It also helps explain why so many startups work on small issues rather than large ones. Thanks for sharing it!

Unfortunately, what it doesn't explain is the hidden cost that such an approach has, when repeated indefinitely, on the greater context of the Valley's infrastructure and incentive structure. Investors today simply are not rewarding risk.

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Re:Stop Building Apps and Start Disrupting Industries by revorad on Monday May 16, 2011 @12:44PM (#2553154)

I hope you will find someone to back your daring innovations. Godspeed!

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