Comments on: Do Seattle Startups Care Too Much About Retail, Too Little About Building a Huge Audience?

By: Marc Fawzi

Marc Fawzi — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 19:48:45 +0000

For so-called “dreamers” it’s mostly about the passion of pursuing an idea and making it happen, with money being realized if and only if the dream is realized in a big way. In other words, if the “dreamer” gets tens (or hundreds) of millions of people to enjoy the fruit of their labor/creativity then they will have realized their dream in the biggest way possible, after which, Google or someone big, who wants their audience, buy them and figure out how to monetize their traffic.

The retail/commercial orientation is for people who want to build businesses and RUN them. Dreamers want to build something that achieves mass adoption. They don’t want to RUN businesses. It’s not what they’re in it for.

Two different types of people.

By: Bruce

Bruce — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 03:31:57 +0000

Maybe sour grapes, but here goes: Going for huge eyeball counts, for an entrepreneur, is a sucker’s game, part of the “winner take all” mentality that misleads huge numbers of ppl to waste their effort for the benefit of the few fat cats who can afford to diversify over a large number of long shots. Give me a group of talented entrepreneurs and supporting talent who can create real, sustainable, businesses any day, rather than a bunch of dreamers doomed to failure. Yeah, they created twitter. One out of how many?

By: lance98004

lance98004 — Tue, 24 Nov 2009 02:33:47 +0000

Seattle vs. SF? It’s about building a good company. You can do that anywhere.

And according to CrunchBase Andrew’s startup raised money from Ignition in Seattle.

http://www.crunchbase.com/company/kickball-labs