Comments for blog.tonyconfrey.net http://blog.tonyconfrey.net Tonys blog on tonyconfrey.net Sat, 26 Jul 2008 00:23:53 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.5.1 Comment on Up and Running! by Daniel http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/2007/09/12/hello-world/#comment-93 Daniel Thu, 06 Dec 2007 19:29:18 +0000 #comment-93 I couldn't understand some parts of this article Up and Running!, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting. I couldn’t understand some parts of this article Up and Running!, but I guess I just need to check some more resources regarding this, because it sounds interesting.

]]> Comment on Business Models for Internet Start-ups by Tony http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/2007/10/01/business-models-for-internet-start-ups/#comment-8 Tony Sat, 20 Oct 2007 16:22:44 +0000 http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/2007/10/01/business-models-for-internet-start-ups/#comment-8 In response to Dharmesh, I should say that I totally agree. The challenge is all about both being in the whitespace and building a compelling application that gets some attention. As a minor follow up to the rough order of magnitude numbers I used its worth noting that on the negative side a recent post at TechCrunch implied that they get upwards of a dozen solicitations a day. So maybe my 1-2 new business's per day estimate is off by an order of magnitude. On the positive side Balmer at Microsoft is claiming that they will ramp up acquisitions to 20 companies a year ( <a href="http://venturebeat.com/2007/10/18/microsofts-ballmer-msft-will-acquire-20-companies-a-year/" rel="nofollow">http://venturebeat.com/2007/10/18/microsofts-ballmer-msft-will-acquire-20-companies-a-year/</a> ), so thats one or two a month just by MS... -Tony In response to Dharmesh, I should say that I totally agree. The challenge is all about both being in the whitespace and building a compelling application that gets some attention.

As a minor follow up to the rough order of magnitude numbers I used its worth noting that on the negative side a recent post at TechCrunch implied that they get upwards of a dozen solicitations a day. So maybe my 1-2 new business’s per day estimate is off by an order of magnitude. On the positive side Balmer at Microsoft is claiming that they will ramp up acquisitions to 20 companies a year ( http://venturebeat.com/2007/10/18/microsofts-ballmer-msft-will-acquire-20-companies-a-year/ ), so thats one or two a month just by MS…
-Tony

]]> Comment on Lets take a breadth first walk through the space. by carisoprodol online http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/2007/09/19/lets-take-a-breadth-first-walk-through-the-space/#comment-6 carisoprodol online Mon, 15 Oct 2007 22:10:58 +0000 http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/?p=5#comment-6 Wie Ihren Artikel zu Reddit inzuzufügen? Wie Ihren Artikel zu Reddit inzuzufügen?

]]> Comment on Lets take a breadth first walk through the space. by Wahoo http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/2007/09/19/lets-take-a-breadth-first-walk-through-the-space/#comment-5 Wahoo Sat, 06 Oct 2007 02:33:06 +0000 http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/?p=5#comment-5 Thank you for sharing! Thank you for sharing!

]]> Comment on Business Models for Internet Start-ups by Lars http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/2007/10/01/business-models-for-internet-start-ups/#comment-4 Lars Wed, 03 Oct 2007 09:09:04 +0000 http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/2007/10/01/business-models-for-internet-start-ups/#comment-4 Hi Tony: I just stumbled across your site and thought I'd take a minute to point-out what might have been a good example for the SNS panel folks to mention. While I could try to explain by text here it would be easier to have a quick read of the free .pdf at link below about a Japanese mobile-only SNS play called Mobagatown: http://wirelesswatch.jp/mobile-sns/ http://wirelesswatch.jp/docs/mobage_reportcontents.pdf As you had mentioned earlier (to paraphrase), "creating a value proposition and figuring out the business model" seems to be the focus.. this is certainly a working example! kind regards, Lars Hi Tony:

I just stumbled across your site and thought I’d take a minute to point-out what might have been a good example for the SNS panel folks to mention.

While I could try to explain by text here it would be easier to have a quick read of the free .pdf at link below about a Japanese mobile-only SNS play called Mobagatown:
http://wirelesswatch.jp/mobile-sns/
http://wirelesswatch.jp/docs/mobage_reportcontents.pdf

As you had mentioned earlier (to paraphrase), “creating a value proposition and figuring out the business model” seems to be the focus.. this is certainly a working example!

kind regards,

Lars

]]> Comment on Business Models for Internet Start-ups by Dharmesh Shah http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/2007/10/01/business-models-for-internet-start-ups/#comment-3 Dharmesh Shah Tue, 02 Oct 2007 04:07:01 +0000 http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/2007/10/01/business-models-for-internet-start-ups/#comment-3 Great article. One big challenge with the "we will sell to one of the big guys" is that we don't have a sense of how many others are thinking exactly the same thing and doing something very, very similar. You really end up betting on your ability to predict where the market is headed in the future (i.e. what the big guys will be interested in). If you bet on the present -- i.e. competing in a category that you already know is interesting, the odds are you'll be duking it out with several others. If you look at the acquisition patterns, it seems that those that got bought (FeedBurner, MyBlogLog, etc.) were relatively differentiated at the time they started. Great article.

One big challenge with the “we will sell to one of the big guys” is that we don’t have a sense of how many others are thinking exactly the same thing and doing something very, very similar.

You really end up betting on your ability to predict where the market is headed in the future (i.e. what the big guys will be interested in). If you bet on the present — i.e. competing in a category that you already know is interesting, the odds are you’ll be duking it out with several others.

If you look at the acquisition patterns, it seems that those that got bought (FeedBurner, MyBlogLog, etc.) were relatively differentiated at the time they started.

]]> Comment on Lets take a breadth first walk through the space. by Kevin Summers http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/2007/09/19/lets-take-a-breadth-first-walk-through-the-space/#comment-2 Kevin Summers Wed, 19 Sep 2007 20:15:44 +0000 http://blog.tonyconfrey.net/?p=5#comment-2 Great to see you have cranked out a blog, Tony! Re the MS Project replacement (and there desperately needs to be one, if not several :v( )....check out Basecamp over at http://www.basecamphq.com . Quite a nice app that has been garnering kudos for some time now. Best, Kevin Great to see you have cranked out a blog, Tony!

Re the MS Project replacement (and there desperately needs to be one, if not several :v( )….check out Basecamp over at http://www.basecamphq.com . Quite a nice app that has been garnering kudos for some time now.

Best,
Kevin

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