Posted at Motava.com:
What will web 3.0 entail? Who knows but…
[it’s] not about WHAT is coming. It’s about HOW it will be paid for…subtle shifts in the methods startups are using to raise capital, away from venture capital and back to IPOs.
Read the full post and see examples of the subtle shifts here.
Posted at Motava.com:
“A large focus of web 2.0 applications and the web 2.0 craze is the push for information to be free…This drive for information to be free, however, also leads into software and web apps being free…The dangers of free [lie with] middle of the road software and apps: closed systems to outside development that is given away for free. These applications are costly to maintain, market and develop but have no direct stream of revenue…”
