F430 Spider on Flinders + Web 2.0 Glocal Downunder in 2007.
Gilchrist, Cameron White and Symonds won today's cricket so didn't watch out the whole game. Synch'd Ipodder Lemon for updated Podcasts and needed to blow off the cobwebs : To mainline some of that endorphin stuff to see if it can get me to closure on this deal, as well as some of that adrenalin that comes from riding my flat bar road bike now it's fixed (it's pedals not an engine btw :)
The Ride : Shoreham to Flinders clifftop stretch, which includes a couple of f-off wealth type digs. The first hill you go down you can get close to 60km/hs. As a winding road with gravel and lots of trucks and cars on both side of a single lane each way road, you gotta be on your game. I've had a few bad experiences with gravel and cars, so now I hold my line and stay towards the middle.
The first vehicle that rolled past though was a red Ferrari 430 Cabriolet with top down. Damn that are some fine looking rear cut-off lights and what an engine note. Oh to have half a mill.
I had some Daily Source Code on the Ipod and there were some replays from 2004 "podshows". It's funny to think that end of 2004 when I was stuck at home with a strange problem that couldnt get diagnosed with my knee and I bought the Imac 20" when it came out and the 1st G shuffle, was where it started for me. Well this part of the game.
With the deadpool meme, that is adding some lee harding wasabe twinged "neo-punk" 2.0, it's always good to remember why you first got into the game. Good strategy is learned execution, and definitely evolves. My experience at ninemsn, sensis and other success/failures :) told me the local part of this 2.0 equation is wide-open. And it still seems so. Technical execution is far harder from building a Web 1.0 classifieds, ecommerce or content site though. It is alot cheaper too.
Another insight a couple years ago was that successful (media/community/UGC) website development, whether you work at a corporate or startup, is alot like film making and less like corporate software/MBA consulting product development.
It seems easy to pick the latest genre ("video", "social networking") grab your camera (open source tools, APIs) and shoot some footage. More people shooting; More enter; More exit. Level playing field with low cost entry and high genocide with low replacement costs for the next venture. (sell it on ebay or sitepoint and use proceeds to fund the next one etc then blog about the experience and use it to pitch your local angel)
It's alot harder to execute. In fact, technical execution, esp from a remote location with a low level of people with the different types of competencies and skillsets (many who have been burnt by 1.0 and are earning $700-$1200 a day working 9-5 for a bank, and although they would love to work on something interesting + new.. but cant/wont - mortgage, kids, siignificant other and past experience at least downunder vs the US means it is still hard for the startup to compete to get the tech talent it needs when based outside US)
I don't expect the glocal Web 2.0 industry in 2007 downunder to be as barren (get it) as 2006. It will be great when more players like studentface.com.au are who executing awesomely and also major corporates start innovating. (that was my sales pitch, which seems to be working, can u believe it, blog it and they will come) I'm loving playing in both the consumer space and then enterprise enablement in this local 2.0 space. (thanku, clap, clap, blagh)
You think of films, very few have a harmonious set, that come in under budget and on time, that capture something magical that then go onto to do a huge box office, and also win awards. Alot fail, alot are stuck in the middle, some do pretty well. Just like a hedge fund manager thinks they can beat the market (and some do but most dont) so does any entrepreneur/filmmaker think they can beat the "average" delivery of the corporate or untouched market window.
The life of a successful venture is supposedly that of the business of a winery. By the time you plant everything, let the grapes mature, establish sales channel and harvest your first couple of crops its a 5-8 year window to get there. You can correlate this downunder to the first Internet entrepreneurs that started 1997-8 now having their value well and truly established.
Listening to the DSC podcast of 2004 highlights, makes you realise, especially in Australia far away from the echo-chamber and concentrated venture finance/universities/ geeks+entrepreneurs of the East and West Coasts, that 2007-8 will see an accelerated launch of new consumer websites and enterprise services. I can't wait, even if it is someone else hammering past me in the F430-Spider.
The Ride : Shoreham to Flinders clifftop stretch, which includes a couple of f-off wealth type digs. The first hill you go down you can get close to 60km/hs. As a winding road with gravel and lots of trucks and cars on both side of a single lane each way road, you gotta be on your game. I've had a few bad experiences with gravel and cars, so now I hold my line and stay towards the middle.
The first vehicle that rolled past though was a red Ferrari 430 Cabriolet with top down. Damn that are some fine looking rear cut-off lights and what an engine note. Oh to have half a mill.
I had some Daily Source Code on the Ipod and there were some replays from 2004 "podshows". It's funny to think that end of 2004 when I was stuck at home with a strange problem that couldnt get diagnosed with my knee and I bought the Imac 20" when it came out and the 1st G shuffle, was where it started for me. Well this part of the game.
With the deadpool meme, that is adding some lee harding wasabe twinged "neo-punk" 2.0, it's always good to remember why you first got into the game. Good strategy is learned execution, and definitely evolves. My experience at ninemsn, sensis and other success/failures :) told me the local part of this 2.0 equation is wide-open. And it still seems so. Technical execution is far harder from building a Web 1.0 classifieds, ecommerce or content site though. It is alot cheaper too.
Another insight a couple years ago was that successful (media/community/UGC) website development, whether you work at a corporate or startup, is alot like film making and less like corporate software/MBA consulting product development.
It seems easy to pick the latest genre ("video", "social networking") grab your camera (open source tools, APIs) and shoot some footage. More people shooting; More enter; More exit. Level playing field with low cost entry and high genocide with low replacement costs for the next venture. (sell it on ebay or sitepoint and use proceeds to fund the next one etc then blog about the experience and use it to pitch your local angel)
It's alot harder to execute. In fact, technical execution, esp from a remote location with a low level of people with the different types of competencies and skillsets (many who have been burnt by 1.0 and are earning $700-$1200 a day working 9-5 for a bank, and although they would love to work on something interesting + new.. but cant/wont - mortgage, kids, siignificant other and past experience at least downunder vs the US means it is still hard for the startup to compete to get the tech talent it needs when based outside US)
I don't expect the glocal Web 2.0 industry in 2007 downunder to be as barren (get it) as 2006. It will be great when more players like studentface.com.au are who executing awesomely and also major corporates start innovating. (that was my sales pitch, which seems to be working, can u believe it, blog it and they will come) I'm loving playing in both the consumer space and then enterprise enablement in this local 2.0 space. (thanku, clap, clap, blagh)
You think of films, very few have a harmonious set, that come in under budget and on time, that capture something magical that then go onto to do a huge box office, and also win awards. Alot fail, alot are stuck in the middle, some do pretty well. Just like a hedge fund manager thinks they can beat the market (and some do but most dont) so does any entrepreneur/filmmaker think they can beat the "average" delivery of the corporate or untouched market window.
The life of a successful venture is supposedly that of the business of a winery. By the time you plant everything, let the grapes mature, establish sales channel and harvest your first couple of crops its a 5-8 year window to get there. You can correlate this downunder to the first Internet entrepreneurs that started 1997-8 now having their value well and truly established.
Listening to the DSC podcast of 2004 highlights, makes you realise, especially in Australia far away from the echo-chamber and concentrated venture finance/universities/ geeks+entrepreneurs of the East and West Coasts, that 2007-8 will see an accelerated launch of new consumer websites and enterprise services. I can't wait, even if it is someone else hammering past me in the F430-Spider.
posted by redbarren at 5:31 PM
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