Web 2.0: How to Succeed

[akula]

Robert Goldberg has an invaluable series starting with Web 2.0 Business Models, Friend or Foe? Why Making Money is a Good Idea.

I've found it fantastic, practical and most useful.

http://tahoevc.blogspot.com/2006/04/web-2.html

Lately I’m seeing more and more Web 2.0 catch phrases in business plans and pitches. Here are some examples:

* “if we build a better application users will find us”
* “we have a viral application that will have exponential user acquisition growth like (insert your favorite social networking success story)”
* “all we have to do is aggregate a large enough audience and (insert your favorite big media or online company) will acquire us and they will figure out how to monetize the audience.”

For me this is déjà vu all over again. We can all recall similar attitudes, familiar market conditions and even identical applications, services and content from the Web 1.0 era. Apparently I’m not the only one noticing this either. My friend Mark Pincus has a nice post noting similar observations. The famous philosopher George Santayana once wrote “Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it”.

[NeeJam]

thanks for the link akula, it was an awsome post off that link

[akula]

the link machine keeps on rolling ;-)

if I find a good customer, I'll make a site like yeblogger.com for vc blogs.

it's gonna stream hundreds of blog posts from vcs everyday into people's browsers.

the way I see it, the guys on my blogroll, collectively have over a millennium (1,000 years!!!) of hands on experience with company building.

I recon that site would be the best resource for entrepreneurship information in the world!

I'm very excited and can't stop using exlamation points.

P.S.

!!