Investor 2.0
The Idea
One of my current projects focuses on web 2.0 startup company with two partners out of the Bay Area. Myself being in Thailand with access to highly skilled and intelligent developers from the US and UK who don’t mind working, but prefer to sit in front of the river while coding. My two partners being
- A current project development manager for one of the big boys in th Bay Area
- A freelance creative designer from the Bay Area
Between the two of them and my jungle labor force, we are throwing our hat into the 2.0 goldrush scene. The fact is anything we attempt in life has as good as a chance to fail as to succeed. Most recognize this. I think the successful people in this world are those who only attempt things that have a very high payoff.
So if you win the Web 2.0 game you win big, and if you lose, well you can still get a job with Yahoo or move to Thailand with me and put up lots of little sites. Sounds like a good playground for the entrepreneur. no?
So to get to the point, we have a dream and a vision. Its not particularly revolutionary, however its something that in all of this social web madness has been particularity overlooked. Its a better way to <insert2.0verb> via <insert2.0process>
Its not the best idea in the world, however everybody involved agrees very clearly on two things
- Nobody else is doing it
- If people use this, it will be extremely useful and meaningful to the world at large making their life much more easy and fun
- Your mom, my mom and the old lady across the street can use this application
- Meaning instead of being built by geeks for geeks,(think delicious) common man can use and gain from this application
These things are all true however it all hedges on the fact to get people to use the application. As it depends on user population in order to attain ‘usefulness’ we will find ourselves in an interesting position of
- With no content - nobody will use it versus With no content, nobody will use it.
So eventually we are going to address how to build up this initial firebase of content and users so that it becomes a self-perpetuating snowball rolling all the way down Sand Hill Road. Read more
