Answers OnStartups Roundup 1 - March of the parentheticals
November 20, 2009
By now you've probably heard of Answers OnStartups, the new Q&A community for any topic about startups and entrepreneurship. If not, here's Dharmesh's announcement. I have the good…
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Web 2.0: On Bubbles and Business Models
November 30, 2006
As I’ve noted on many earlier occasions, a lot of the best content on this blog are reader contributions via their comments. If I were you, I’d be looking at some of the comments to…
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Commercializing Web 2.0: Hype vs. Reality
November 27, 2006
I’m scheduled to speak at the 9th annual MIT Venture Capital conference on December 2nd, 2006. The title of the panel session I’m participating in is “Commercializing Web 2.0: Hype…
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Beware The Web 2.0 Walking Dead
October 6, 2006
Back in Bubble 1.0, um, I mean Web 1.0, when a startup failed to take off, it generally died a relatively clean and definitive death. We all knew the company was dead because the…
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Web 2.0, Web 3.0 and Beyond: Villainous Version Numbers
September 27, 2006
Just as I had come to accept the fact that Web 2.0 is an ambiguous term I am already hearing mention of Web 3.0. In the context I have seen it so far, Web 3.0 is being used to refer…
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Speaking At The Mass. Tech Leadership Council on Web 2.0
September 17, 2006
I am scheduled to speak at a Mass. Technology Leadership Council event this week. The topic of the event is “Web 2.0 – How Will It Impact Your Business?”. If you plan on attending the…
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Web 2.0: Soft Landings vs. Hard Crashes
September 11, 2006
I’ve gotten a bit of criticism for a couple of my prior articles about the Web 2.0 startup crashes of Kiko and HuckABuck, both of which listed their companies for sale on eBay. [Note:…
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Web 2.0 Crashes: Another Startup Being Sold On eBay
September 7, 2006
First, there was Kiko (which was widely covered all over the blogosphere, including here at OnStartups.com). Now, we have HuckABuck being offered on eBay:…
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Why Web 2.0 Is Like Pornography
September 6, 2006
Recently, I had the opportunity to present to CommonAngels on the topic of Web 2.0. CommonAngels is a prominent Boston-based angel investor group of which I am a member. As part of…
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Web 2.0 Revenues: Charge Early, Charge Often
September 4, 2006
I came across this article on Dead 2.0 this morning: YCombinator Says YProfit? Besides the clever title, and I’m a fan of clever titles, I think some of the points were dead-on. This…
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Valuations 2.0: Thoughts On The Kiko Auction
August 21, 2006
My article last week on the demise of Kiko got a fair amount of visibility (not sure why, as the article itself wasn’t particularly insightful). Guess news trumps nuance in the…
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