I found a great piece on VentureBeat that analyzes venture capital investment in Web 2.0 companies. They provide this definition for what they consider a Web 2.0 company:
“Companies included in this study have a business model that revolves around a dynamic interface facilitating participation through such methods as user-created content, networking, and collaboration. Applications used include podcasting, tagging, blogs, social networking, mashups, and wikis. Technologies used in these applications include: AJAX, RSS, SOA, CSS, XHTML, Atom, and rich Internet applications.”
Of note:
- $455M of total investment during the first nine months of 2006
- 79 deals in the first nine months of 2006
- Top three VCs investing: Draper Fisher, Benchmark, and Sequoia
- Mean first-round valuation of ~$5M
- Mean valuation for companies shipping product of ~$14M
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1 Exhomeless-Guy // Dec 2, 2006 at 9:18 am
Post the Web 20 applications you find useful to Web 2.0 search engine.com.
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