How Are We Going To Make Money?

Re:How Are We Going To Make Money? by pg on Friday March 28, 2008 @05:01PM (#148873)

Can you think of a counterexample? How many purely web-based startups have become massively popular and then died?

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Re:How Are We Going To Make Money? by pius on Friday March 28, 2008 @11:50PM (#149159)

Just about any of the social networks that were "the next big thing" except for Facebook and Myspace. Friendster was the first social network I joined, was massively popular, and now seems pretty moribund.

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Re:How Are We Going To Make Money? by pg on Saturday March 29, 2008 @07:16PM (#149730)

They didn't die of not figuring out a business model, though. They died of ceasing to be popular. If anything these examples support my case for the primacy of getting lots of users.

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Re:How Are We Going To Make Money? by webwright on Saturday March 29, 2008 @12:03PM (#149469)

a lot of aged web companies seem moribund. You could say the same thing about geocities. To tweak PGs question a bit, can you think of any sites that got massively popular and didn't have the opportunity to make a ton of money?

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Re:How Are We Going To Make Money? by wallflower on Friday March 28, 2008 @05:31PM (#148888)

theglobe.com claimed 2M users in 1998

It is now a dot-com boom endnote

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Re:How Are We Going To Make Money? by dpapathanasiou on Saturday March 29, 2008 @10:09AM (#149409)

Friendster is the first one that comes to mind, though there are others.

But something one of the digg founders wrote on this site also comes to mind: http://news.ycombinator.com/item?id=143269

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