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codex on Oct 11, 2013 | parent | context | favorite | on: Weary of ‘Fruit Fly’ Consumer Startups, Andreessen...

Has the number of tiny trivial startups increased lately? Judging from demo days, I would say yes. The startup is the the new garage band. If you like what you hear, we're selling CDs after the show.

outside1234 on Oct 11, 2013 [–]

Is that bad though? We've democratized starting a company. Not everyone needs to be a $1B exit or even a $10M exit.

debacle on Oct 11, 2013 | [–]

Yes and no. The signal/noise ratio is certainly lower, but there is also more signal overall, if you can sift through the noise.

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