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It probably wouldn't and that is part of the problem, a lot of things that would be great can't work as a business and shouldn't... I guess they could always go
by citricsquid 16y ago
It probably wouldn't and that is part of the problem, a lot of things that would be great can't work as a business and shouldn't... I guess they could always go down the paid route, but for it to exist as a free blog and be entirely about true startups I can't see it being a business success like Techcrunch is. They could always try and work out a way to "pray" on the early adopter trend, where every self proclaimed "social media expert" (or whatever they call themselves these days) wants and needs to know about the next big thing before it's arrived and they might be willing to pay for that privilege.
- petercooper 16y agoI mostly agree. It couldn't work with the typical free blog business model that's been popular till now (and which worked for TechCrunch initially) because things (advertisers mostly) have moved on. But.. an organization that went beyond the typical blog role could make money. Consider Chris McCann's Startup Digest. That's building on e-mail right now, but something like Startup Foundry could have fingers in multiple profitable pies: job listings, social events, conferences, angel/VC matching - it just needs the velocity, connections, and brand power to pull it off. (I could be wrong but I don't think it's a coincidence TechCrunch's initial big boom occurred around the time Michael started doing the house parties.)