Future of Web Apps 2006 - Mike Arington Talks about TechCrunch

September 18th, 2006

Mike Arington talks about TechCrunch

What’s next for web applications?

Ones to watch

What were they thinking? (i.e. Not doing well)

Shared attributes of winners

  • Passion for what they are doing
  • Doing something extraordinary (Purple Cow)
  • Removes serious friction Ex: Free411 – removing payment friction
  • Great founder dynamics (and initial team)
  • Never raised big money, or raised it after they won
  • Perfect revenue model is not required Ex: YouTube
  • And… launched their company with a post on TechCrunch :)

Shared attributes of losers

  • Poor founder/Team Choices
  • Lifestyle/Ego Entrepreneurs
  • Raised too much money
  • Over-business-planned
  • Forgot about scaling
  • Launched on TechCrunch :(

Things to avoid (the market is saturated):

  • Social Network
  • Social Bookmarks
  • Video
  • Photos
  • Blogging/podcasting
  • Portals/homepages
  • Feedreaders

Ideas with big potential:

  • Platforms (help other companies do things)
  • Desktop Apps
  • Office Efficiency
  • Cloud Storage
  • Identity
  • Developer Tools
  • Market Destruction (free411)
  • ENTERPRISE

The best entrepreneurs ignore this type of advice. Invent a new market.

Posted by Ryan Filed in Blog

Tags: futureofwebaps-sf06,futureofwebapps

1 Response to “Future of Web Apps 2006 - Mike Arington Talks about TechCrunch”

  1. Tim Bednar Says:
    September 19th, 2006 at 01:43 AM What did you or he mean with "Identity" or "Platforms" or "Office Efficiency". Or where here do you see an opening in the "church" sector?

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