Above, TechCrunch's Mike Arrington talks about some of his favorite websites.
From his talk:
The shared attributes of winners:
- Passion for what they're doing
- Doing something extraordinary
- Removing serious friction, making a task easier for users
- Great founder dynamics -- team members have to get along
- Never raised big money, or Raised it after they won
- Perfect revenue model not required
The shared attributes of losers:
- Poor founder/Team choices
- Lifestyle/Ego entrepreneurs
- Raised too much money
- Spent too much money
- Over-business planned
- Forgot about scaling (Friendster)
