DISQUS

It must be interesting to listen to a talk given by a venture capitalist - we don't often hear from them, or am I just looking in the wrong places? Facebook has been very much the up-and-coming thing recently, but is it now being superseded by other social networking sites?

Please don't take (too much) offence, but isn't it .. a bit too early, for a history of blogging? I don't think there's even a decade worth of blggers.

Of course, people are developing new and exciting methods of communication daily, refining the tools, going all the way to blogging or microblogging, but only a certain time will show the real value of this.

Just my two cents ...

If I may add to all that has been said in here ..

To stay focused, there is one thing needed : a general vision, from afar, of what is going on. Also known as "seeing the big picture". That's the problem with most startups. They have a good idea, a brilliant idea, they know it's time to make it through, to start running; only then they do realize that their niche is already populated to some extent, that besides the starting point they need to enlarge their vision, to let knowledge of what is already going on sink in, then redirect their plans accordingly, remaster, rebuild, subtly change directions ... that's the moment, when you're halfway through, and you damn feel like giving up everything and lighting up a cigar.

It's easy to say "keep focused", but it's much harder to do that in practice.