… and 8-bit streetview is worth a look. TechSpace’s new digs in the Eagle Building: http://goo.gl/wNTh4

That said, the overall market for accelerators *is* saturated. And many of the accelerators are starting to become overblown Ponzi schemes. Even Y Combinator has been blasted for funding startups to provide services for their own startups Not that that’s a new thing, Yahoo! has been cannibalizing it’s own business for years. Maybe that’s why they’ve gone on the warpath with patents this week.

I guess the point of my tweet was that the startup community has become ever more obsessed with the money/exit side of the equation, and less on the true innovation/big ideas side. I tweeted today about software patents, and, as most of us can agree already, they’re largely to blame for lack of innovation. Most ideas for internet startups, even the biggest ones (and perhaps especially those) have massive potential for infringement on hundreds if not thousands of patents. This comes from patent research I’ve been doing on some of my “Big Idea” type ideas. Someone commented on a thread I read recently that the software patent debacle is like bringing “dynamite into a nursery”. That’s probably my favorite metaphor, yet.

Lest I hijack my own comment; I’m not suggesting that we stop with the accelerators. I am suggesting that there’s some balance between innovation and exit. I think that entrepreneurs are more motivated by innovation than by money, but I worry that the accelerator culture is emphasizing the money over innovation.