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Web 2.0 Bubble

Hmmmm. Which Web 2.0 Internet companies might not make it through this credit and financing crunch? If you don't have enough finicing, credit, a decent business plan, or a business model, and/or your angel capitalist runs out of cash too, you're in trouble - hopefully temporarily.

We'll probably see a lot of mergers, acquisitions, closings and downfalls over the coming six months, especially after year end. Watch carefully - there will be some interesting combinations and some of the traditional vendors will be able to pick up some great features for a song.

Here's an article from this week on cNet news.

October 10, 2008
11 troubled Web companies: The next Kozmos?

It speculates that these companies could be on the bubble:

Twitter
Meebo
TripIt
Zillow
Pandora
Second Life
Skype
Ask
DailMotion
NetVibes
MySpace

And now that Yahoo is heading for $12 territory, that old Microsoft offer looks great and a merger with AOL just seems puny. I still say it's not over.

There are opportunities in every market downturn.

Stephen

Full post as published by Stephen's Lighthouse on October 12, 2008 (boomark / email).