Comments on: Startups and Kids http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/10/13/startups-and-kids/ Spurring innovation and entrepreneurship. Wed, 17 Mar 2010 02:09:09 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.7 hourly 1 By: Rob La Gesse http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/10/13/startups-and-kids/#comment-249365 Rob La Gesse Sun, 14 Oct 2007 04:06:15 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/10/13/startups-and-kids/#comment-249365 My involvement with Web 1.0 was on the periphery - we were setting up some of the infrastructure that enabled web 2.0. We helped invent WiFi - and while it isn't talked about much as a Web 2.0 product I certainly think has been a driving factor. But yes, we had a lot of fun, some cool coffee makers, wonderful offices and paid everyone handsomely. But these are the good old days - now you don't need a million dollars worth of equipment to build something that has a huge return. The risk to starting a business is so much lower now - the cost of entry can be as low as almost zero - and almost any idea can be developed, and launched, in some fashion or another. In many ways we are now living in a time that allows us to do many of the things we planned on doing almost a decade ago. But now the technology exists, and it's cheap - and there are a lot of people that know how to implement it. And imagination is the only real barrier to entry. I prefer now. Rob My involvement with Web 1.0 was on the periphery - we were setting up some of the infrastructure that enabled web 2.0.

We helped invent WiFi - and while it isn’t talked about much as a Web 2.0 product I certainly think has been a driving factor.

But yes, we had a lot of fun, some cool coffee makers, wonderful offices and paid everyone handsomely.

But these are the good old days - now you don’t need a million dollars worth of equipment to build something that has a huge return.

The risk to starting a business is so much lower now - the cost of entry can be as low as almost zero - and almost any idea can be developed, and launched, in some fashion or another.

In many ways we are now living in a time that allows us to do many of the things we planned on doing almost a decade ago. But now the technology exists, and it’s cheap - and there are a lot of people that know how to implement it. And imagination is the only real barrier to entry.

I prefer now.

Rob

]]> By: Startups and Kids http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/10/13/startups-and-kids/#comment-249333 Startups and Kids Sun, 14 Oct 2007 03:03:23 +0000 http://www.texasstartupblog.com/2007/10/13/startups-and-kids/#comment-249333 [...] askripko wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWeb1.0: The original conception of the web (in this context, labelled Web 1.0) comprised static HTML pages that were updated rarely, if at all. The success of the dot-com era depended on a more dynamic web (sometimes labeled Web 1.5) … [...] [...] askripko wrote an interesting post today onHere’s a quick excerptWeb1.0: The original conception of the web (in this context, labelled Web 1.0) comprised static HTML pages that were updated rarely, if at all. The success of the dot-com era depended on a more dynamic web (sometimes labeled Web 1.5) … [...]

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