Steve Jobs/Andy Rubin were preaching that mobile was the future for longer than I can remember but only after they had something to sell everyone else.
Also, don't forget someone else might have already noticed this same insight, so with some game theory one can easily end up sharing an insight, cancelling out their competition.
Also I think this insight has been pretty easily known for a while now.
That doesn't match anything I've heard or read, from what I can tell tech entrepreneurs constantly give back, or at the least consistently invest back. I'm positive this is bias, but is there another industry that creates as many investors? Either angel or future VC partners?
That's not quite the right question, because of course finance would lead in number of investors total, but I mean like created company in industry, this case tech, then invested in more companies in that industry.
During the financial crisis we saw a lot of shady behavior from the financial sector that might not have been illegal, but was sketchy. Having non-sketchy business practices is the first step and it is seldom talked about. However, I think that the tech sector (and I'm not in it) does a good job of providing real value for people instead of scam my products.
it's a bit like apple. there's no way to pass their "improvements" to BSD on to the BSD community even if they felt magnimonious some day...
generally big tech (aside from IBM, Xerox Parc, and the OLD GUARD that actually did paid research) today are webstack leechers...
maybe the VCs even try to clone techstacks from successful startups but minus that genius builder person who arbitrarily chose reasonably suitable tools because she was familiar and comfortable with them... so instead we get ten million companies looking for "xyz engineers" which is just a big stupid turd sitting in front of us: no, you need a person who may possibly have a comp sci education but has hands on experience building stuff and sees how things work.
Where's our moon landing, where's the next major paradigm shift in user interfaces coming from? where is the salesforce.com ai institute where we can study the big data techniques they pioneered?
the last refuge of real computing == academia? or perhaps the fringe? garages? hey it's never been cheaper to make an asic, they say...
