Happy Hour

Great one Sarah!

Linkedin not growing.. heh!
http://siteanalytics.compete.com/linkedin.com/?metric=uv

Sarah:

Dynamite job on Hap Hour. First, you were able to keep Cody from wacking you with his flailing arms. Second, you made several great points on the difference in this 'possible bubble' and the one that actually existed. And I agree wholeheartedly about Linkedin. It's a cash cow. Compare to CNBC, which has a modest audience by TV standards (3-400,000). It rakes it in because it targets a high end demo, and advertisers pay accordingly.

Great job Sarah! You look great, but I have to agree with Cody on this one. Web 2.0 is full of hot air and the great thing about bubbles is that in the end the real players survive and the pretenders die. I was there for the first tech bubble and all the symptoms are there but the geeks are always the last ones to find out until they have to sell the furniture. Have you ever been at a tech startup furniture sell? I have. Perhaps Linkedin and Facebook are the future Googles, ebays, and Amazons but I doubt it. This user-generated model needs to evolve more.

Great job Sarah! You look great, but I have to agree with Cody on this one. Web 2.0 is full of hot air and the great thing about bubbles is that in the end the real players survive and the pretenders die. I was there for the first tech bubble and all the symptoms are there but the geeks are always the last ones to find out until they have to sell the furniture. Have you ever been at a tech startup furniture sell? I have. Perhaps Linkedin and Facebook are the future Googles, ebays, and Amazons but I doubt it. This user-generated model needs to evolve more.

Maximo:

what is your address? i need to send you a copy of my book to explain why you are WRONG! ;) it's not a case that these companies will all do well--but that's the early stage startup game. VCs are LUCKY if 1/3 of their portfolio companies make it. that's very different than calling it all a bubble. you can debate what they are worth and which ones will make it, but there are some real underlying fundamentals in a lot of these businesses you just can't ignore. and lest we forget, the first bubble gave us AMZN, YHOO, GOOG, EBAY and hundreds of others.think of how much of the tech economy--not to mention the nasdaq-- these names make up. even if you call this another bubble-- that doesn't mean several strong names won't come out of it.

Man that guy is irritating. His dates say "once your lucky twice your good?"

Dates.... Once he's lucky twice he's a repeat customer.

Nice job Sarah. I would have smashed him over the head with a bottle of KJ. (I wouldn't waste good wine)

Can't wait to read the book.