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A VC: The Independent Web
- brudgers 16y ago>"the big Internet companies and the innovative emerging web services work together to "succeed by making others succeed." Given that the primary source of revenue for companies like Google and Facebook is the sale of advertising, its hard to see such cooperation fostering a shift towards a web which doesn't atempt to segment the market down to unique individuals. Online, it is far more common for B2C practices to be carried over into B2B, than for the B2B model to bubble down into B2C.
- lsc 16y agoI've always seen the job of "startup founder" sold as: get investment, get big, get bought, then retire in luxury. This idea that startup founders want to work very hard for a short period of time then retire (or do something else) is an alternate explanation of why startups tend to die after they get bought. The people who made the companies worth buying moved on. (of course, this doesn't explain why some companies that get bought and do poorly end up doing better after they are spun off again.)