Instagram? Zynga? There's a lot big minds chasing small ideas

Re:Instagram? Zynga? There's a lot big minds chasing small i... by fleitz on Saturday July 14, 2012 @01:58PM (#4244880)

There are also a lot of literary geniuses writing link bait tech blogs but you don't see entreprenuers telling journos that their making pulp to sell Adwords instead of having an impact on culture.

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Re:Instagram? Zynga? There's a lot big minds chasing small i... by tgrass on Saturday July 14, 2012 @02:01PM (#4244890)

While that may be true (though doesn't necessarily mean the same journos aren't making that complaint about their own craft) it doesn't answer the complaint in any meaningful way.

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Re:Instagram? Zynga? There's a lot big minds chasing small i... by jcdavis on Saturday July 14, 2012 @02:39PM (#4244959)

I disagree. In both cases, people are taking the easy way out, because hard things are well, hard.

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Re:Instagram? Zynga? There's a lot big minds chasing small i... by fleitz on Saturday July 14, 2012 @10:11PM (#4245875)

Last time I checked the purpose of a business was to make money, when I see an easy way to do things I take it.

It's the smart thing to do. I have a feeling that if Instagram pivoted towards curing cancer that investors would go ape shit.

Likewise if someone put a billion dollars on the table and told me I could have it either by writing a photosharing iphone app or curing cancer, I'd sure as hell sign up for option a and not option b.

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