Very interesting insights ...
I agree, the strive for being different is visible. I estimate that there is a 4-5-year cycle, the generation change in a high school. My 2 sons are 6 years apart and the younger one is proud to speak a different high school jargon verbally and on-line compared to his UC brother.
Puberty-to-maturity is an aweful time period. Teenages and start-ups seem to have something in common, they have something really good, really bad and something really ugly 
Start-ups seem to mature with $10M/year revenue, teenages ... depends. But there are always exceptions.
Communications put so much in the body language. When it finally gets to the sense of words, almost all is set up and pre-spoken. Various cultures put more (or less) in the meaning of spoken words. Templates and immediate associations versus creativity and independent thinking, ability to reproduce standards and keep moving along the drawn direction versus becoming orthogonal and innovative. Some cultures appreciate the former, others - the latter.
Selling a head-ache pill to a caveman versus offering prozac to a person who tries hard every day to come with a worthwhile idea what to desire. Isn't there an element of working really hard on turning half-empty glass into half-full?
Dr.Smirnoff
The coming of the "virtual age" has revolutionized the business world by dramatically reducing the difficulties =u=involved in one of the fundamentals of business: interaction. Communicating is quicker, easier, and "consumers" and "producers" are exponentially more accessible to each other, than they ever were.
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