{"id":3582,"date":"2013-07-03T09:52:24","date_gmt":"2013-07-03T07:52:24","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/?p=3582"},"modified":"2013-07-03T13:48:05","modified_gmt":"2013-07-03T11:48:05","slug":"startups-innovation-through-inferiority","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/2013\/07\/03\/startups-innovation-through-inferiority\/","title":{"rendered":"Startups: Innovation Through Inferiority!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I know I write this too often, but I&#8217;ve been thinking exactly what<a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrteacup.org\/post\/startups-innovation-through-inferiority.html\" target=\"_blank\"> this article<\/a> puts into the right words. Disruption is all fine and dandy, but what does it really do for a society and especially the middle class?<\/p>\n<blockquote><p>What this means is that Silicon Valley venture-backed startup companies generally make worse, not better products. Their main advantage is that they are cheaper and therefore more accessible to the average person, which enables populist-sounding marketing. So Airbnb is cheaper but worse than a hotel; blogs are cheaper but worse than newspapers; user-generated content in general is <em>free<\/em> but worse than professionally produced content.<\/p><\/blockquote>\n<p><a href=\"http:\/\/www.mrteacup.org\/post\/startups-innovation-through-inferiority.html\">Startups: Innovation Through Inferiority!<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I know I write this too often, but I&#8217;ve been thinking exactly what this article puts into the right words. Disruption is all fine and dandy, but what does it really do for a society and especially the middle class? What this means is that Silicon Valley venture-backed startup companies generally make worse, not better [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[174,10],"tags":[41,117,119,191],"class_list":["post-3582","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-lifestream","category-political","tag-article","tag-politics","tag-society","tag-tech"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3582"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":3583,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3582\/revisions\/3583"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3582"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3582"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.hanshafner.de\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3582"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}