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Adam RoadesIn part three of a series of posts on the future of web business, Bernard Lunn provides a good commentary on how future startups and giants will need to perform as "web 2.0" goes away/becomes the norm and new innovations are needed.
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The value was all in the viral marketing to create proprietary data.
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- Applications (as always) on top
- Programmable Web - libraries and APIs - in the middle
- Hardware As A Service (Amazon, Google, others) - at the bottom with all the traditional stack components.
What we have seen in the last few years is a quiet but dramatic shift in the stack. Sure the LAMP stack and variants are still there but the stack now looks more like three really, really big layers:
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The key lesson for entrepreneurs is that the programmable web enables you to pick and choose. It did not use to be like that. You had to choose IBM or Univac on mainframes, DEC or HP in minicomputers, Windows or Unix in Client/Server. Each decision had far-reaching consequences. You were really locked-in.
That is no longer true in the programmable web. You can use Amazon web services, Google Web Toolkit, LAMP stack from Red Hat, YouTube for videos and any number of specialized APIs. The power to create sophisticated, complex web based systems has grown exponentially.
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Think revenue. Web 2.0 solved the cost problem. The next era will solve the revenue problem in basic simple ways that everybody can understand. Making money online will happen if you enable other people to make money online.
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Will StewartThe new Web era is about the mainstream. This is when millions of small businesses and digital free agents make a good living by providing better products to a much more savvy market. This is the point in the Crossing the Chasm model when all the innovati
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That market cannot consolidate down to a few players.
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Nobody controls the Internet
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. Google looks a more likely contender, but they have plenty of weaknesses and there are plenty of up and coming contenders and big bruisers poised to give them a hard right punch the moment they leave an opening.
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Google also fully understands that any attempt to insert proprietary standards via lock-in will fail.
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If neither Google nor Microsoft can control the Internet, nobody can.
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It is possible to build a business around a single feature. The Web open standards makes that possible.
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It looks a bit weaker in the new era without a clear revenue model. The real play for most ventures is to sell to one of the big guys. In a downturn that gets tougher.
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- Independent retailers.
- Digital content creators.
- Global micro brands
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A vertical niche that would have been way below the VC radar screen in the PC era can be a $100m plus revenue business in the Internet era.
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- Applications (as always) on top
- Programmable Web - libraries and APIs - in the middle
- Hardware As A Service (Amazon, Google, others) - at the bottom with all the traditional stack components.
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The web stack is so much more powerful and will continue to get better because the big gorillas are not complacent, they are rightly paranoid about their competition. This is the free market magic of competition driving innovation. Understanding how to use the competing platforms to best advantage will be key to entrepreneurial success.
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Each of the gorillas knows that they have one overriding advantage (PC OS/Apps for Microsoft, search for Google, e-commerce infrastructure for Amazon, social graph for Facebook etc).
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Each knows that they cannot rely on that single advantage, so they build/buy the rest of the platform
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. A classic move is to give away the feature that they most fear from their biggest competitor. It is an attempt, occasionally successful, to take away their competitors cash cow and distract them. Google Apps looks like that kind of play (vs Microsoft Office).
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Think revenue. Web 2.0 solved the cost problem. The next era will solve the revenue problem in basic simple ways that everybody can understand. Making money online will happen if you enable other people to make money online.
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