It's OK for a founder to jump into an emerging hype cycle, but only if they have a genuine interest in that area that reaches back in time.
As VR takes its trip through the hype cycle of technology adoption, I keep returning to the early days of film as a corollary for the medium's progress and a good benchmark for its evolution. When the
The tech hype-cycle works something like this: Some driver triggers a flurry of investments in a particular "theme," which in turn feeds news flow, panel discussions at conferences and a procession of
New technologies tend to follow different trajectories of hype, hope, and despair as they are discovered by different groups of people and finally adopted (or ignored) by consumers. Gartner actually g