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The view from Silicon Valley

• il 18y ago
  "And that's nothing but grim news for the myriad feature-oriented Web startups that were founded mainly to be acquired by Microsoft, Google, and Yahoo. If the Web giants stop buying, a lot of Web 2.0 fruit will die on the vine." Maybe now startups will actually have a business model that involves becoming profitable rather than simply hoping to get bought by Google.
• waynep 18y ago
  "(God help you if you're, say, a young server-farm company.)" Cloud computing anybody?
• ld50 18y ago
  "we'll have a lot more talented people going into things like real engineering, as opposed to financial engineering." o snap