None of these are extremely surprising: #1 considering VS's have probably heard half a dozen "Facebook, but with FeatureFoo" pitches a dozen times a day for ab

None of these are extremely surprising: #1 considering VS's have probably heard half a dozen "Facebook, but with FeatureFoo" pitches a dozen times a day for about a year. #2 and #3 go hand-in hand - Google seems to have gotten the top of the hill on monetizing people going from one place to another on the web. If you figure out how to take away 1% of their tolls, you've got a successful startup. #4 is an old one - education doesn't scale. Web can make it scale, with money to be made. #5 is the core of "Web2.0" #6 seem to be off - as jwesley expounds on well.