TechCrunch, the over confident tabloid reporters of hype who only a few weeks ago were all breathless about &#x27;unicorns&#x27;, are now swinging the pendulum to the other extreme. I&#x27;m in the bay area and there is a new realism for sure, but the idea that low buck entrepreneurialism is &#x27;over&#x27; is absurd.<p>Most of the current wave of tech&#x27;s origins are in the Web 2.0 &#x27;read&#x2F;write&#x27; web that came after the dot com pump and dump funding fiasco...twitter et al grew out of the ashes of the last vc and wall street debacle. we are a similar inflection point IMO, where honest innovation will be more important than megabuck funding fests...