Comments on: Ok, maybe there is a bubble?

By: Blogspotting

Blogspotting — Tue, 20 Dec 2005 19:34:32 +0000

Bubble Talk and Joe Kraus

Some thoughts from JotSpot’s co-founder Joe Kraus on the brewing digital bubble.

By: Jeff Clavier

Jeff Clavier — Sun, 18 Dec 2005 21:45:32 +0000

Dude, you have to expose them. This is so ridiculous that they should at least get some crap for it.

By: Tech Beat

Tech Beat — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 07:24:00 +0000

Tiny Bubbles…

Mike Arrington also wonders if there’s a bubble brewing after all in the land of Web 2.0. His latest red flag is stupid parties: I was invited, and drove 25 miles to get there. The door person said I wasnâ€™t…

By: Ethan

Ethan — Sat, 17 Dec 2005 02:45:47 +0000

I like hollywood parties more because at least we KNOW its all smoke-up-the-ass-stupidity, and for no reason, rather than hiding under the “launch party” ethos.

Hollywood parties are fun. Valley launch parties are hilarious.

By: Texture

Texture — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 08:49:56 +0000

a properly thrown party can run less than 2-3,000$… this is nothing compared to buying advertising in a newspaper or magazine. When you’re throwing 100,000$ parties… then we have problems

By: Bill Liao

Bill Liao — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 07:35:10 +0000

To be sure there is a surfit of funds in the US VC market.

Point – In web 1.0 you could take a dog with the word Internet painted on the side public.

Point – The scenario today has not caught the general investing publics attention.

Point – Sorbanes Oxley has mad it very tough to IPO.

Point – Ebay paying an enourmous valuation for skype has caught the attention of many VC’s

Conclusion IMHO is that this might be called a temporary phenomenon and yet bubble does not have the right feel as a true capital markets bubble generally takes out a large chunk of the world’s networth.

I forsee this as meerly affecting the balance sheets of some of the less cautious venture funds.

Also web 1.0 affected the globe we recently raised capital at openBC in Europe and the process was no where near as easy as the web 1.0 days.

Bill

By: Jeremy Pepper

Jeremy Pepper — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 04:20:10 +0000

[cough][cough]

Well, I agree with you (as you know) that some of that mentality is coming back. And, well, this post confirmed some of my fears.

By: Mike

Mike — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:48:19 +0000

I could not agree more that these so called parties are a waste of precious resources. However, when resources are plenty, people start to spend money lavishly and it sure sounds like we are seeing that again.

However, the once key difference appears to be that Bubble 2.0 is so far happening with far less money at stake than during web 1.0 when you had the likes of Web Van blow through hundreds of millions vs. just a couple of millions.

By: Andy Kaufman

Andy Kaufman — Fri, 16 Dec 2005 01:05:58 +0000

You didn’t pull the “Don’t you know who I am?”

By: Ed Dunn

Ed Dunn — Thu, 15 Dec 2005 16:33:45 +0000

I feel the problem with web 1.0 was not lavish parties but a lot of money/investment thrown at unsustainable ideals.

I believe parties are essential to attract people that can help spread the word about the service. I found it to be ineffective when parties are attended by groupies or has-beens and not the movers and shakers.