abt. startup10 Regeln für Web Startups
Ten Rules for Web Startups – dieses Mal von Evan Williams (Gründer von Blogger und Odeo).
Compact
Web 2.0 is the network as platform, spanning all connected devices; Web 2.0 applications are those that make the most of the intrinsic advantages of that platform: delivering software as a continually-updated service that gets better the more people use it, consuming and remixing data from multiple sources, including individual users, while providing their own data and services in a form that allows remixing by others, creating network effects through an “architecture of participation,” and going beyond the page metaphor of Web 1.0 to deliver rich user experiences.
(die aktuelle und vollständige Web 2.0 Kompaktdefinition)
Wundervolle Zeiten
Zwei interessante Postings zum Kapital, das StartUps heutzutage erfordern: Bnoopy (Joe Kraus, ehemals Excite, jetzt JotSpot) rechnet vor, wie top-notch (Web-)Anwendungen derzeit für ein Dreißigstel im Vergleich zu vor 10 Jahren (100.000 : 3.000.000 $) zu realisieren sind. Lesen, Business Plan schreiben und dem nächsten VC in die Hand drücken.
Die derzeitigen scheinenden Sterne am Webanwendungshimmel 37signals gehen dann noch einen Schritt weiter:
Now that all the fixed costs are gone, you’re left with the requirements of time and passion. While those resources (or at least one of them) can be bought by setting up shop and saying “we’re doing it”, they can certainly also be had outside the typical startup atmosphere. And I think that story is actually a lot more interesting since its not just lowering the costs of an existing model, it’s throwing it out and opting for a new one entirely.
As mini-investments from VCs and angels become the next big thing, I hope more crews will think hard and consider whether they could do without. Look at the project that costs $100,000 and figure out how to make it cost $20,000 over the shoulders of three guys. Do it out of your own pocket and you’ll be forced to reckon with constraints earlier and more intensely.