Overheard Online

If you want to do something worth doing, you’ll need two things: passion and architecture. The tools will take care of themselves. (Knowledge of tools matters, of course, but it pales in comparison to the other two.) Sure, picking the wrong tools will really cripple your launch. Picking the wrong software (or the wrong hammer) is a hassle. But nothing great gets built just because you have the right tools.
Seth Godin on Tools

You wouldn’t believe how many times I have heard “Advertising” when asking a client how they plan to make money with their start up.Scarier yet, most of them are working with less than 25K and no programming experience.They see all the hype behind the latest VC investments and think they can be the next Facebook or YouTube.The fact is that the Facebook’s of the world are simply a fluke. They basically hit the lottery.
How To Split An Atom on Advertising

The Internet/Web/Search engines have flattened information flow – it’s now very unlikely that a meaningful problem remains hidden from sight for any significant time. Even a “stealth” mode company doesn’t get much of a break – after all, while what they are doing remains hidden, the problems they are going after are in plain sight!
Soaring on Ridgelift on Problems

In life, they say that the only things that are for sure are death and taxes. In venture-backed startups, the only things that are for sure are burn-rates and Board meetings. The most dangerous thing on earth is a well-funded startup (and North Korea).
offaCliff on Startups

While I understand why companies want to “protect their assets,” ultimately, online communities can be fickle and rebellious. They do not want to be owned. Trying to turn a community into a commodity is ultimately a recipe for failure.
Web Worker Daily on Communities

At some point the real world of dollars and cents will rear its ugly head in this warm and fuzzy world of freenomics and Web 2.0. Sure there will always be another startup for these folks to run to but at what point will even the early adopters say enough is enough .. quit wasting our time and energy.
WinExtra on Web 2.0

The idea of a “startup” has really moved into the mainstream in the past few years. The tech bubble added a level of mysticism and ownership to the term, and it has continued to move beyond an industry classification. The word now comes packaged with its own stereotypes, and it seems like everyone with a little coding knowledge, a garage, and a pair of flip flops is bootstrapping their very own startup.
t - - on Startups

Web 2.0 successes were mostly about a single feature (photos, bookmarks, video, phone, blogging, etc) where there was extremely rapid adoption by consumers. Semantic Web is inherently about integration and those plays tend to be different, longer and much bigger potential.
ReadWriteWeb on Semantic Web