Entrepreneurs seek to consolidate functionality
0Entrepreneurs seek to consolidate functionality.
There was a time when the startup world looked as easy as throwing a baseball into a swimming pool. Early startups like Facebook and PayPal addressed the simplest of needs to communicate and transact. But now entrepreneurs bullish on the space are challenged in much more specific ways.
Gone are the days of tech startups trying to address the most basic human needs. Instead, they’ve focused on hyper specificity. There are apps for dry cleaning, health food delivery, dating and cryptocurrency; just to name a few among the thousands of pain points entrepreneurs are trying to address.
Technology is now fragmented. There are so many different apps that have so many unique functionalities. All of which, we open and close them as often we do our own mouths. As those apps engage in a war for space on our phones, the best techies among us are doing a complete 180.