Comments on: Vakow is struggling – Rediff CEO Ajit Balakrishnan

By: Rohan

Rohan — Wed, 04 Feb 2009 16:18:19 +0000

Hi Pranav,
Thanks for pointing out to me what I has overlooked!

By: pranav

pranav — Mon, 02 Feb 2009 18:22:54 +0000

rohan,

sometimes the idea / app might have potential to become wildly popular. for example – look at twitter. twitter has no source of revenue at this moment. However, it has emerged as a serious platform for real time, short content sharing..

having a real revenue model is always great..But often times, a service without one could also strike gold.

you never know — you need to give it a shot if you believe in it.

By: pradeep

pradeep — Fri, 30 Jan 2009 08:30:07 +0000

nice post

By: Rohan

Rohan — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 12:30:17 +0000

I am glad that I am a pessimist. When I used to come across such services, I always to wonder how they are able to manage the costs. I knew that they received funding, but still I never got the answer. Then I thought that “advertising” was their source of revenue, but still I was not sure if advertising could really makeup the costs. AFAIK, advertising revenue from such online services is a meager unless you have tens of millions of good users.

As a result, I always wondered how this business exactly operated and used to think that these guyz are some genius kinda entrepreneurs!

You see, most of these web 2.0 startups are like rich kids living off their parent’s(investors’) money!

Recession is a great thing! It will help to differentiate between good companies with sales-profits and hyped companies living off investors money!

By: Ram

Ram — Thu, 29 Jan 2009 10:10:23 +0000

Wow, that was really a very quick break