Paul Graham this month writes on the risk of VCs becoming irrelevant as the cost of start-ups “approaches” zero.
I humbly disagree. The cost is just shifting from hardware and software to talent, processes, and marketing programs.
Paul Graham is claiming from what feels like an “entrenched techie” standpoint that I noticed more than once reading his blog – which I do respect and admire – that “the web has made marketing and distribution free”.
Not so fast. (more…)
In the November/December edition of the Semantic Web Gang we looked back at the Semantic Web highlights of 2008, after discussing the recent launch of Glue from AdaptiveBlue.
I much enjoyed that conversation, as we touched on a range of important issues from the adequacy of the RDF stack as an enabling technology, to the user value propositions that resonated and others that did less, to our views and hopes for 2009. I would encourage everyone with some interest in web 3.0 issues to listen to this, and certainly would love to hear from our listeners both in terms of feedback and suggestions for 2009.
We'll be back next year!
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I haven’t blogged in a short while as I was busy building the site of my consulting shop, renamed GrowthRoute Ventures. The url is www.growthroute.com, please visit and comment here.
With this, I am now offering innovative services targeting growth companies from early-stage start-ups to funded ventures to innovation teams in larger groups. The driving force is to turn those organizations into category leaders by “reverse-engineering revenues”, as I like to think it.
The focus is on the endgoal, be it an independent play, an acquisition, or an IPO (a remote objective in the current economic conditions…), and we work on all its drivers, through strategic planning, product management, marketing and sales channel development. In Ontario where I am based, we nicely take it where government-backed advisors like Communitech and MaRS leave it; and we also cross borders, with clients in the US and Europe.
