Michael Arrington from http://www.techcrunch.com
“What’s next for web apps: building tomorrow’s Flickr”
(note I will have pictures of Michael’s Winner’s and Loser’s soon..)
Shared Attributes of Winners
- Passion for what they are doing
- Doing Something Extraordinary (Purple Cow)
- Removing serious friction
- Great Founder Dynamics (“higher slow, fire fast”)
- Never Raised Big Money or Raised it After They Won
- Perfect Revenue Model Not Required
- and…launched their company with a post on TechCrunch (hahaha!)
Shared Attributes of Losers
- Poor Founder/Team choices
- Lifestyle/Ego Entrepreneurs
- Raised Too Much Money
- Spent Too Much Money
- Don’t Over business-planned
- Forgot about scaling (Friendster)
What Server Platform? What Client Platform
- PHP = popular server
- AJAX = popular client
- Sleeper = Adobe Apollo
Market Saturation
- Avoid
- Social Networking
- Social Bookmarks
- Video
- Photos
- Blogging/podcasting platforms
- Portals
- Feed Readers
- Big Potential
- Platforms
- Desktop Apps
- Office Efficiency
- Cloud Storage –> Microsoft, Google, Box.net, Omnidrive coming soon
- Identity
- Developer Tools
- Market Destruction
- ENTERPRISE = important