Comments on: Is All This Paranoia About a Startup Depression Justified? http://thenextweb.com/2008/10/13/is-all-this-paranoia-about-a-startup-depression-justified/ International technology news, business & culture Thu, 24 May 2012 18:33:18 +0200 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.3.2 By: Steven Carroll http://thenextweb.com/2008/10/13/is-all-this-paranoia-about-a-startup-depression-justified/#comment-367557 Steven Carroll Wed, 15 Oct 2008 07:36:14 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=5469#comment-367557 David it was lastminute that kick started the first bubble. No wonder there still going lol. But actually I love the description you gave of the BBC Vs the blogger from (up north). I think recessions are great time to start real businesses. We have all seen so many 'me toos' lacking innovation, real problems and burning through cash like it will disintegrate if not spent. Now that the recession is being advertised on TV (as my mum says) the smaller upstarts without the advantages of VC backing, will have a much better chance at standing out and less VC backed copy cats emulating any success they find. David it was lastminute that kick started the first bubble. No wonder there still going lol. But actually I love the description you gave of the BBC Vs the blogger from (up north).

I think recessions are great time to start real businesses. We have all seen so many ‘me toos’ lacking innovation, real problems and burning through cash like it will disintegrate if not spent.

Now that the recession is being advertised on TV (as my mum says) the smaller upstarts without the advantages of VC backing, will have a much better chance at standing out and less VC backed copy cats emulating any success they find.

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]]> By: David Petherick http://thenextweb.com/2008/10/13/is-all-this-paranoia-about-a-startup-depression-justified/#comment-367555 David Petherick Tue, 14 Oct 2008 06:49:43 +0000 http://thenextweb.org/?p=5469#comment-367555 If 3-4 people is life support, then can I just say - most ventures are 1-2.5 people with sweat equity already running on vapour. I interviewed Tim Bray for The Next Web at FOWA 08 last week. I was doing this in the room subsequntly used by Jason Calcanis to do a long long LONG interview with the BBC, I couldn't get access to do a interview with Todd Fast of startup Zembly.com [ http://thenextweb.org/2008/10/10/the-future-of-everyones-apps/ ] after I'd finished with Tim, as the whole room was blocked out by Jason and the TV crew. We were helped out by the great Sun Startup Essentials man, Stwewart Townsend, who offered us use of their apartment for the interview. In a New York second. (Actually, a Lancashire Minute). He didn't even get upset when I forgot to lock the door behind me. I think there's a message there. Calcanis has moved carefully to become big and fat enough to be in the eye of the BBC, whose 55+ minutes of facility-blocking talking heads content might become 5 minutes produced sometime next month. The way they work, think, and get their money, is a mile away from the can-do, let's help each other, kick-ass attitude that most real startups have, and need. My interviews went live 10 minutes after they finished. They are wrong. <b>Watch us!</b> I was once on a list of 30 companies in 1999 with newsbase.com - another on that last was lastminute.com - we're both still standing, and growing. I am happy to share that experience, and I'm used to making things happen from nothing. It's not called being an entrepreneur - it's called being human, and knowing how to trust good people and ideas. Let's get inspired, together, now. Start with Tim: http://thenextweb.org/2008/10/10/top-tips-for-tough-times-from-tim-bray-at-fowa/ And contact me on - david@thenextweb.org or http://twitter.com/clarocada If 3-4 people is life support, then can I just say – most ventures are 1-2.5 people with sweat equity already running on vapour.

I interviewed Tim Bray for The Next Web at FOWA 08 last week. I was doing this in the room subsequntly used by Jason Calcanis to do a long long LONG interview with the BBC, I couldn’t get access to do a interview with Todd Fast of startup Zembly.com [ http://thenextweb.org/2008/10/10/the-future-of-everyones-apps/ ] after I’d finished with Tim, as the whole room was blocked out by Jason and the TV crew.

We were helped out by the great Sun Startup Essentials man, Stwewart Townsend, who offered us use of their apartment for the interview. In a New York second. (Actually, a Lancashire Minute). He didn’t even get upset when I forgot to lock the door behind me.

I think there’s a message there. Calcanis has moved carefully to become big and fat enough to be in the eye of the BBC, whose 55+ minutes of facility-blocking talking heads content might become 5 minutes produced sometime next month. The way they work, think, and get their money, is a mile away from the can-do, let’s help each other, kick-ass attitude that most real startups have, and need. My interviews went live 10 minutes after they finished.

They are wrong. Watch us!

I was once on a list of 30 companies in 1999 with newsbase.com – another on that last was lastminute.com – we’re both still standing, and growing. I am happy to share that experience, and I’m used to making things happen from nothing. It’s not called being an entrepreneur – it’s called being human, and knowing how to trust good people and ideas.

Let’s get inspired, together, now. Start with Tim: http://thenextweb.org/2008/10/10/top-tips-for-tough-times-from-tim-bray-at-fowa/

And contact me on – david@thenextweb.org or http://twitter.com/clarocada

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