Web 2 Ireland

Thoughful piece from Chris Shipley (producer of Demo) on “web2.0 revenue models”

An entertaining presentation from Dave.

Master of 500 Hats: Web 2.0: Floorwax or Dessert Topping?

http://www.typepad.com/t/trackback/5125313

An Irish based author (former VC), Diane Mulcahy, penned a recent book, which covered the Amazon funding story.

“Entrepreneur : Q3 94 – Founder Jeff Bezos got started investing $10k and borrowing $44k
Friends & Family : Q2 95 – Founders Parents invest $245.5K, Q2-96 siblings invest $20k
Angels: Q4 95 – Two Angels invest $54.4K, Q1,96 , Angel Syndicate – 20 angels invest $46.85 each raising $937K
VC: Q2,96 – Two VC firms invest a total of $8MM
Exit : Q2,97 – 3MM shares sold on NASDAQ , IPO raising $49.1MM”

Guys behind http://www.boompa.com/ have posted up a “post mortem” on getting a web2.0 started.

Check this out – almost a $1million cheque

All from a 1 person dating site

Ryan and Gilian are live-blogging the process of building a web2.0 app…

Carson Systems Blog Blog Archive Bare Naked App – The building of Carson Systems' new web app – laid bare