Metastasized Software And Life 3.0

"Center for Digital Archaeology," said the banner above one of the startups at the Funders and Founders Life 3.0 demo show, and for a moment I got excited, thinking of Vernor Vinge's software archaeologists. It wasn't quite that. Instead, Codifi was a "solution for turning cultural heritage datasets and rich media into web- and mobile-ready interactive experiences." Which is cool, and worthwhile, but more a niche market than a world-shaker. As were a lot of the startups there. TennisRound: "find a tennis partner." DreamBoard: an app for dream tracking and analysis Plus, of course, the usual panoply of social marketplaces, socialsourced services, gamified giving, "Instagram for Products," etc etc yadda yadda. I apologize for being jaded. But Michael Church's scathing essay "Don't waste your time in crappy startup jobs"--go read it--was still ringing in my ears, and I couldn't help but wonder how many of these startups were founded more for the sake of founding a startup than because the founders ...

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