Mike Arrington - the founder of the popular blog TechCrunch stated, "the best entrepreneurs never listen to anybody."
What's Different from Web 1.0
- Slow Apps vs. _Javascript/AJAX/Flash Apps
- One-way vs. Two way
- IPO for Billions vs. Sell for Millions
- Beg for PR vs. News Spread Virally
- Recycling 1999 Ideas Isn't Stupid
Some of the Winners - Mike defines a winner as a company who sold their business: Writely, Newroo, Delicious, Weblogs, MySpace, and Skype... Future winners include: Digg, Facebook, Youtube, Netvibes, Zoho Projects, Photobucket, PlentyofFish, Netvibes, and StumbleUpon. Facebook is probably worth $2B. plentyoffish is Match.com but free and its a one man show. The guy running it is making $300k/month. FULL ARTICLE @ TECHNOSIGHT