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Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by malanj on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @01:07PM (#7628876)
It's interesting how some internet startup concepts seem to keep coming back. Website building tools have gone through a number of generations, but are still relevant now. Similarly Facebook was the second wave of social networking sites. I recently saw a "pets.com" clone launching in South Africa (they got funding from Google's local seed fund)!

Marc Andreessen's aggressive stance is that the dot.com bubble was basically a "mistake". If that's correct, how would one decide that an "old" idea's time has come?

http://blogs.wsj.com/venturecapital/2012/11/01/marc-andreess...

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Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by jdcryans on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @03:21PM (#7629781)
From the same article:

“All the dot-com ideas were correct,” he said. “They were all too early. They are happening now.”

The article's title is clickbait.

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Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by knouse1344 on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @01:23PM (#7628989)
Seems like the startup economy 'blue-screened', and has returned after a hard reset.
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Re:Weebly Valued at $455M Amid Website-Building Boom by adamio on Tuesday April 22, 2014 @04:23PM (#7630183)
The concepts might have merit, but the challenge is many failed as sustainable and profitable businesses. Have that many underlying assumptions changed in 14 years? Probably not
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