The word “startup” has begun to signify a particular brand of business success... and a particular type of business person.

Game studios are now purposefully designing bad systems and mechanics, hoping that people will be willing to pay to get past the poorly-made parts of the service: when microtransactions are the sole source of income, we start to build our entire product around that model.

How different the social media landscape would be if sites focused on more than the good ol' boys network to drive their initial growth.