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Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups

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Re: Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups

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I've finally put my finger on what's been rubbing me the wrong about these. Although these are mostly factual and non-sensational, they smack of cable-news disease. The sort of preoccupation with a continuous update that has people glued to news and stock tickers.

For some things, a stream of information is useful. But for this sort of stuff I feel it fosters a climate of more short term thinking and concentrating on the wrong things in the community at large.

In a year, releasing and examining these numbers is going to be really valuable. But right now, I feel like it's CNBC for Startups (hint: that's not a good thing).

Re: Strikingly, BuildZoom and Bitnami Lead Hottest Y Combinator Winter 2013 Startups

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Post by themgt »

anateus wrote: post #5

I've finally put my finger on what's been rubbing me the wrong about these. Although these are mostly factual and non-sensational, they smack of cable-news disease. The sort of preoccupation with a continuous update that has people glued to news and stock tickers. For some things, a stream of information is useful. But for this sort of stuff I feel it fosters a climate of more short term thinking and concentrating on…

Yep, and it has the same cable news echo-chamber effect of creating self-fulfilling prophecies off weak fundamentals.
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