Startups and following the herd mentality

Thursday, August 28. 2008

Startups and following the herd mentality

From Jemima Kiss over at the Grauniad - she reports on how they took the next crop of Seedcamp prospects and ran their prospectuses and revenue models through Wordle:

Seedcamp 2008 Prospectii and Revenue Models via Wordle.net

A word to the wise - I wouldn't count on the Advertising, guys......

For those interested in the trends of trendiness, here are the 2007 TechCrunch 40 brief descriptions in Wordle too:

TechCrunch 40 via Wordle.net

As you can see, the memecloud was in a different place a year ago.......there is less video and search but more information and mobile now. Social is still popular. For the record, Financial Services startups did well in both last year. I don't have the TC40 revenue models, but I'd bet Advertising was in the same spot....

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I like the use of Wordle. Agree with Jemima Kiss

"I think the smart money will be on services that don't rely on advertising."

It will be good to finally see which companies have been shortlisted for SeedCamp08 and compare this to the images above.

It would also be good to compare SC08 to TC50. Hopefully there will be a wordle for TC50.

Finally I have to partially disagree with Jemima others comment.

"{SeedCamp}it is a little like Dragon's Den, but without the patronising business experts"

I think I need to remind myself which companies came out of SC07 and TC40 and track their progress.

#1 Sam Sethi on 2008-08-28 11:33 (Reply)

As soon as they write up the company thumbnails I'll bung them into Wordle

In fact if I can find the SC 07 I'll do same.

#2 alan p on 2008-08-28 13:06 (Reply)

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