Startups and following the herd mentality

Posted on : 27-08-2008 | By : admin | In : Business Opportunities, Communications, Internet, business

From Jemima Kiss over at the Grauniad – she took the next crop of Seedcamp prospects and ran their prospectuses and revenue models through Wordle:

Seedcamp 2008 Prospectii and Revenue Models via Wordle.net

A word to the wise – I wouldn’t count on the Advertising, guys……

For those interested in the trends of trendiness, here is the 2007 TechCrunch 40 brief descriptions in Wordle too:

TechCrunch 40 via Wordle.net

As you can see, the memecloud was in a different place a year ago…….there is less video and search but more information and mobile now. Social is still popular. For the record, Financial Services startups did well in both last year. I don’t have the revenue models, but I’d bet Advertising was in the same spot….

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