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This is where startups will be strong next year. The focus of the last couple of years - especially YC type startups - has been on social - which is pretty muc
by mtkd 18y ago
This is where startups will be strong next year.
The focus of the last couple of years - especially YC type startups - has been on social - which is pretty much saturated now (I laughed/cried at some of the content on that dreamitventures site that was posted yesterday).
We're in a recession now that means big opportunity for replacing established business software apps - because existing apps have grown bloated and carry huge costs - which gives a massive attack surface - a startup can do take an existing app and do the key features better, cheaper and simpler - and instantly bite in to some revenue.
New startups need to be taking on salesforce.com not trying to be the next Facebook or Twitter.
2010 will be all about revenue not unique visitors.
- Hexstream 18y agoWe have to wait another YEAR? :(
- Zev 18y agoUse that year to get a jump start on everyone else?
- hitokiri82 18y agoI dont know, I have worked in some very big clients and I just dont see them trading their ERP's for some startup product, they just have too much riding on it, without counting the HUGE piles of money they've already invested in the SAP solutions. Its like the mob, once you're in you're in and the cost of getting out would be really steep. On the other hand, and this probably was what you were actually going for, startups could provide an alternative to those very expensive solutions and could very well tap into a huge pile of money thats sitting there waiting to be picked. One corporate client can generate more revenue than 100 freeloading "social users".
- eru 18y ago(Disclaimer: I should be more knowledgeable about this, having interned at SAP once.) Perhaps you can do to SAP what Scala, Clojure et al are doing to Java: Present a more enjoyable front-end to the programmer, but target the underlying system.