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State of the Nation

Started by David Parmet · 6 months ago

Steve Gillmor on the state of things:
The emergence of RSS and its spawn podcasting, OPML, and attention have disrupted the gatekeepers of disruption economics. Given the low barrier to entry of startup/mashup economics, VCs no longer have a lock on the early stages of the value chain, ... Continue reading »

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  • Yup, for the most part I tend to agree with you/Steve. However, what I'd like to see more of is some of these neat feature/companies that really leverage the whole primordial soup that we've come to know as Web2 develop into real businesses. If the big change ends up being that VCs are displaced because starting a startup just means cooking a prototype until a bog portal co. takes you out for $5-7MM, I'm not sure sure we are left in a better place than where we started. That is, I'm not sure you could get the next Apple, or Microsoft out on an environment like that.

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