Comments on: Information Technology Venture Capital is Dead – Part I

By: VCs making a comeback? « Tech Lahore

VCs making a comeback? « Tech Lahore — Sun, 12 Jul 2009 20:18:38 +0000

[...] the whole thing… But maybe I’m just biased. After all, I did just recently write two pieces on why Venture Capital may never be the same again. If you haven’t read them yet, you may [...]

By: Venture troubles worsen in Q1 ‘09; investments down by 50%, funds getting smaller « Tech Lahore

Sun, 19 Apr 2009 04:33:12 +0000

[...] covered the trials and tribulations of the Venture industry and hypothesized that perhaps it is curtains for the VC [...]

By: Information Technology Venture Capital is Dead - Part II « Tech Lahore

Information Technology Venture Capital is Dead - Part II « Tech Lahore — Sun, 01 Feb 2009 01:08:05 +0000

[...] left off a few days ago. If you need to catch up with the first part of this article, simply click here. For those of you who are up to speed, let’s charge [...]

By: techlahore

techlahore — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 12:29:03 +0000

Rakesh, iterative improvements account for something, yes. However, experience has shown that for Web 2.0 properties in particular, adoption is either very rapid, or it never happens. Rapid adoption doesn’t wait for a site to even leave the alpha or beta stages. MySpace had been around for longer, Facebook was the new kid on the block. But the growth of Facebook – being the less mature application – was so rapid that it is exactly twice the size of MySpace today. How long was it before Twitter became a run-away success?

What you are saying may hold true more for enterprise applications, but the Web 2.0 space demonstrates the exact opposite.

By: Rakesh

Rakesh — Wed, 28 Jan 2009 02:42:27 +0000

Agreed that it is easier with easier availability of resources you mentioned and things like Amazon’s EC2, it is far easier to enter a market but still there are barriers-to-entry. Invested time in developing product in particular domain being one crucial one. With development cycles gone rapid, a house with more iterations based upon user feedback is in position of doing much better than one just entering. Specially in Web 2.0, competitiveness lies in how fast you learn from the way your service is used.

That accounts for something, right?

By: Ali

Ali — Mon, 26 Jan 2009 05:18:16 +0000

Very interesting points, and though I was bit apprehensive when I started reading (particularly thanks to the title.. lolzz), I fully agree with you now. Will tune to further on this series.

By: O

Sun, 25 Jan 2009 14:22:37 +0000

Although I think the concept of VC is a good one, I’ve never been a fan of VC in IT startups, simply because there is (in the vast majority of cases) no need for it…It all seems to end up getting spent on plush offices or unneeded MBA folk.

And like you said, capital is no longer a barrier to entry, which gives the developer in Pakistan the same shot at success as the developer sitting in Silicon Valley, which can only be a good thing!

By: techlahore

techlahore — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:57:35 +0000

Thanks, Gilmour. Please stick around for the conclusion of this series…

By: Gilmour Poincaree

Gilmour Poincaree — Sat, 24 Jan 2009 16:55:01 +0000

Very interesting points of view fella … pretty much like my own but you certainly brought about things I didn’t think of … thanks a lot …