"The lesson for entrepreneurs is don't have preconceived notions about how your product/service will be used."
I'm off to Melbourne today, with the business not abating, working on 5 or 6 significant deals. I'm glad this space is getting some traction downunder, although that could be related to bus dev effort :)
The new like.com "likeness" search engine targeted at women is an interesting proof of concept ("Laura said, “Don’t worry we will get there.” Lisa seemed a little scared of me. "), when they are crawling all the worlds (fake + real) Rolexes for example (from ebay, craigslist, amazon etc), it certainly is an interesting mechanism for browsing. And who wouldn't be envious of the engineering team they have working on this problem, even if that does dial the burn rate up to "pretty damn hot."
If I was a VC in this deal though, I'd be praying to Buddha that I came out the other side. The search results do look nice and it does cluster preset categories pretty well. As for being Body Shop meets Google (or was that Virtual) Earth, I'll be keen to see what happens once the build out categories with a meaningul and comprehensive list of items. (They say they're "adding 30K items a day") To be Liked.comthe service needs to go inch wide, mile deep : It's still in alpha, so more few inches wide, a few inches deep.
Don Dodge has the juice on riya, oops, like.com : "The lesson for entrepreneurs is don't have preconceived notions about how your product/service will be used. Test with lots of different customers to discover where they see value. Remember, it is not about the technology...it is about the problem it solves."
The new like.com "likeness" search engine targeted at women is an interesting proof of concept ("Laura said, “Don’t worry we will get there.” Lisa seemed a little scared of me. "), when they are crawling all the worlds (fake + real) Rolexes for example (from ebay, craigslist, amazon etc), it certainly is an interesting mechanism for browsing. And who wouldn't be envious of the engineering team they have working on this problem, even if that does dial the burn rate up to "pretty damn hot."
If I was a VC in this deal though, I'd be praying to Buddha that I came out the other side. The search results do look nice and it does cluster preset categories pretty well. As for being Body Shop meets Google (or was that Virtual) Earth, I'll be keen to see what happens once the build out categories with a meaningul and comprehensive list of items. (They say they're "adding 30K items a day") To be Liked.comthe service needs to go inch wide, mile deep : It's still in alpha, so more few inches wide, a few inches deep.
Don Dodge has the juice on riya, oops, like.com : "The lesson for entrepreneurs is don't have preconceived notions about how your product/service will be used. Test with lots of different customers to discover where they see value. Remember, it is not about the technology...it is about the problem it solves."
posted by redbarren at 9:09 AM
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