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- Rich Internet application startup ideas Y Combinator wants to see
- Rich Internet application startup ideas Y Combinator wants to seeReally Really Want To Store On the Cloud But ...Am moving a small company (About 15 people) from an information systems design firmly rooted in 1998 to a SaaS/Online CRM/Cloud Storage Mashup model. Today's Amazon S3 outage does give one...
- Tags: startup idea, Y Combinator, server, rich Internet application
- Discussion threads 2008-07-20
- Web 2.0 champions don't champion business plans
- It is fitting that YCombinator’s Paul Graham did a feature interview with Michael Arrington’s TechCrunch. The two entrepreneurs have a lot in common: they both are making money by promoting Web 2.0 start-ups lacking business plans.It is ironic that two financially savvy individuals with solid Web 2.0 business plans of...
- Tags: MBA, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-09-05
- Web 2.0 dreaming: get rich quick, or fail trying
- In “Rocketboom: Web 2.0 'success' on $20 a day?” I reflect on society’s desire to count on a “get rich quick” American dream success story, rather than to work towards a “hard earned dollar.”As every American is born with the unalienable right to the ‘pursuit of happiness,’ and we often...
- Tags: Kiko, Y Combinator, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-08-19
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- News to know: Amazon S3 outage; iPhone 3G; SOA debugging; Microsoft
- Notable headlines: Michael Krigsman: Amazon S3: 'Elevated error rates'. Techmeme GigaOm: S3 Outage Highlights Fragility of Web Services Dana Blankenhorn: Do open source applications take security seriously? Dancho Danchev: Spam coming from free email providers increasing ...
- Tags: Apple iPhone, S3 Inc., Larry Dignan, Apple Inc., SOA, Amazon.com Inc., Apple iPhone 3G, Microsoft Corp., Outage, 3G, Service-Oriented Architecture (SOA), Sales Strategy, Open Source, Cellular Phones, Consumer Electronics, Personal Technology, Web Services, Enterprise Software, Software, Sales
- Blog posts 2008-07-21
- Rich Internet application startup ideas Y Combinator wants to see
- Y Combinator posted a list of a bunch of different startup ideas they'd like to see and fund. It's a sizable list with 30 different thoughts waiting for enthusiastic entrepreneurs to take a shot. But what struck me most about the list was how RIA-heavy it is. I as much...
- Tags: Rich Internet Application, Rich Media, Site Builder, Ryan Stewart
- Blog posts 2008-07-20
- News to know: Yahoo; ToorCon; Microsoft Surface, XP; Apple; Psystar
- Notable headlines: Larry Dignan: Microhoo: A frenetic week ahead; Yahoo could turn the tables on Microsoft Nathan McFeters: ToorCon Seattle 2008: Nuke plants, non-existent sub domain attacks, muffin diving, and Guitar Hero ToorCon gallery. Mary Jo Foley:...
- Tags: Google Inc., Hard Drive, Larry Dignan, Microsoft Windows XP, Yahoo! Inc., Apple Inc., Microsoft Corp., Veterans Administration, Help Desk, Open Source, It Operations
- Blog posts 2008-04-21
- Why Google IS afraid of Microsoft, big time
- Is Google celebrating the "death" of Microsoft?Paul Graham believes so, proclaiming Microsoft to be rich but dead.But are Eric Schmidt and company really “not afraid of Microsoft anymore”? Hardly. Google does indeed fear Microsoft, big time, and rightly so.Below are just a few billion dollar reasons why, in rebuttal to...
- Tags: Web 2.0, Venture Capital, VC, Search Advertising, Search, ROI, Mobile, Microsoft, Metrics, Local, Google Software Applications, Google, Advertising
- Blog posts 2007-04-07
- Graham on Web 2.0 investing: VCs are no angels
- Paul Graham, YCombinator, has spoken; in a TechCrunch Q & A.Of particular note is Graham’s immediate reaction to the posting of the interview; In a comment at the post, Graham noted what he considers an “inaccuracy” with the TechCrunch headline:Though the intro calls me a VC, that’s not really accurate....
- Tags: TechCrunch, Paul Graham, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-09-03
- Web 2.0 amateur entrepreneurs: failure to succeed
- In “Web 2.0 on a shoestring: What bubble?” I posit that Web 2.0 is not beset by a financial bubble, but by a rash of amateur entrepreneurship:How can there be a financial bubble if the Web 2.0 community boasts about the near cost-free and risk-free nature of 'starting-up'? As little...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-08-27
- Web 2.0 on a shoestring: What bubble?
- Web 2.0 is not a heady financial bubble ready to burst, it is a hot air hype balloon ready to deflate.The cost-free ease by which 20-something weekend software developers hatch colorful, lightweight, cool apps ready-made for the colorful, lightweight, cool TechCrunch spotlight yields a dizzying parade of often indistinguishable Web...
- Tags: Web, Web 2.0, Kiko
- Blog posts 2006-08-24
- Google and Web 2.0: win-win or win-lose?
- Google makes no secret of its objective to obtain and control every piece of data in the world, including users’ personal data, and of its aim to obtain every business and every individual as a Google paying customer.Google CEO Eric Schmidt, at last months Q2 earnings conference call, reconfirmed:we are...
- Tags: Google Inc., Web 2.0
- Blog posts 2006-08-19
- Graham on Google: Web 2.0 foe
- Paul Graham, financial backer of via Y Combinator, and once cheerleader for, recently folded online calendar site Kiko, lays the blame on Google for the failure of his protégé company.At his blog, Graham puts forth a rambling capitulation to Google:What nailed Kiko was Google Calendar…The killer, unforseen by the Kikos...
- Tags: Google Inc., Kiko
- Blog posts 2006-08-18
- Google Writely: Will competitors be wronged?
- TechCrunch heralds the availability of the Google online word processor, Writely, with a warning to other Web-based word processing applications: “Google’s Writely released; will another sector be squashed?”Online ajax-rich word processor Writely began accepting new accounts today after closing registration when the company was acquired by Google in March. A...
- Tags: Google Inc., Kiko
- Blog posts 2006-08-18
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