An amusing tirade against some of the worst failings of some of these Web 2.0 startups. On a related note, I just spoke with Roger Greene, the CEO of Ipswitch, who make the venerable and highly rated FTP client ws_ftp. He told me he thought it was fairly clear that a lot of these companies are launched with the sole intention of being bought up by one of the internet giants.
5 Ways To Make Me Laugh At Your Web 2.0 Company — Business Logs
In this fast-paced and synergistic world, buzzwords get the play. Non-technical people start companies and press ridiculous deadlines to their engineers, Web 1.0 burnouts start new companies that are just rehashes of the idea they couldn’t make work in 1999, and the technology you use is more important than the value you provide. Hell, VCs are getting sick of their clients making it big, so they’re starting half-assed “Web 2.0″ companies of their own which are off the map 1 month after beta.
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June 28th, 2006 → 5:19 pm @ Ian Delaney
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