Can any Web 2.0 website be funded these days?

July 15, 2006 – 8:09 am

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I think almost any idea can. People are desperate to invest in the next cool thing, and “Web 2.0″ is capturing their fancy. This opens up some serious website possibilities. Sure, maybe a bubble is forming. Because at the core of business is the dramatic need to earn money. Some of the business models being floated now for investment ideas appear to be written on the back of a business card. People are going for the capital, figuring they’ll “flesh in the details” later.

Well that means we need to get creative. The dumb money is dying to pay the “smart crowd”. Alright, how about:

My sex history.com - you can enter the names of all of your lovers. The site will use a Yahoo Maps mashup to show geo-location information. You can actually see, by percentage, what portion of the world you slept with in an extremly Ajax-y interface
Anything to do with the words “photo sharing” or “video sharing”. In other words, tell people you’re “the Next Youtube” and you might get serious interest
“Smash Maps” - another geo-targeted mashup. Keep a detailed map of every place you’ve ever been hammered out of your gord in. (What is a gord anyway?)

I’m sure I can think of more. It’s only been about 15 seconds of creative time put in so far, but I think that might be common enough these days. I guess I should ask the question: “how will this make money?”. Advertisers, is the one word response. The only problem is, not all advertisers are stupid. If they don’t make money, neither will the website.

It might be time for a “Stupidest Web 2.0 idea to get funded” contest. There are more contestants all the time.

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