The main point I heard in Joel's article was not his desire for network effects, it was his proposed move into an enterprise model. In the comments here for th

The main point I heard in Joel's article was not his desire for network effects, it was his proposed move into an enterprise model. In the comments here for the Inc. article he said something about being good at marketing but terrible at sales. Being reliant on one or the other of these seems like a fundamental quality for a company.