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gapingvoid: top ten reasons why you didn’t sell your web 2.0 company to google for $1.6 billion

October 16th, 2006

gapingvoid: top ten reasons why you didn’t sell your web 2.0 company to google for $1.6 billion.

A sage voice, reason or otherwise, and favorite artisit/doodler presents his top 10 list on why you didn’t sell your company to Google:

1. You already sold your company. For a lot less, to somebody else. Ouch. Ouch. Pain.

2. Instead of giving your company an easy-to-spell, easy-to-talk-about name like “YouTube”, you decided to give your company a name that [a] nobody likes and [b] nobody can spell. Robert Scoble explains.

3. Your company probably isn’t even worth $1.6 million, let alone $1.6 billion. Heck, $1.6 thousand would be considered “not bad” in some books…

4. You’re still working at Starbucks. So you went from dotcom entrepreneur in 1999, to a penniless barrista in 2001, to… ummmm…. still a penniless barrista in 2006. Life is unfair.

5. Your business model doesn’t scale. In fact, I’m not quite sure about your business in the first place, let alone whether the model scales or not…

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