Disruptive Tendencies

Early on Day One of Disrupt SF, Silicon Valley legends Peter Thiel and Max Levchin came out on stage with a grim message of doom: "Innovation in the world today is somewhere between dire straits and dead ... outside of computers and the Internet, we've had forty years of stagnation." Meanwhile, Startup Alley boasted a large number of trivial, me-too apps, all too often marketed as "Airbnb for X" or "the gamification of Z" or "the business card ? reinvented!" The judges were acutely aware of this: one of them dryly commented, re JiffPad, "It's nice to see people tackling harder problems than restaurant check-ins." Also: VCs there all seemed to agree: if you want to start a company, move to the Valley. I suspect TC Disrupt will be remembered in part as the event where mobile travel apps finally erupted into the mainstream. And, yes, that's right, Shaker won. More on all of the above behind the click --

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