Comments on: BricaBox: Goodbye World! http://innonate.com/2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/ Just another WordPress site Sat, 24 Jul 2010 01:07:41 -0700 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=abc By: wiliam143 http://innonate.com/2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/#comment-635 wiliam143 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 23:52:40 +0000 http://innonate.com/?p=671#comment-635 What are you currently up to? If entrepreunering (my word), tell me about your startup.<br>Today, I’m days off of launching my baby, <a href="http://BricaBox.com" rel="nofollow">BricaBox.com</a>. BricaBox is a new kind of web publishing platform, focused on the social content market. We aim to power thousands of consumer and publisher generated websites, where, like with YouTube, Flickr, Yelp, and Wikipedia, people come together with the intention of collaborating on a base of content.<br><br>Why are you doing this? You could be doing so many other things in the world, what about this particular idea strikes you?<br>In a word, opportunity: Opportunity in the industry as a whole; opportunity in the web publishing market; opportunity in the social web space; opportunity in the semantic web. With so many opportunities floating around, it’s hard not to be in this business, doing what we’re doing. I really couldn’t imagine doing something else right now.<br><br>All startups should be addressing a problem in the market of <a href="http://www.thehostplanet.com/backup-software.html" rel="nofollow">backup</a>. What is that exact problem and how are you solving it?<br>The problem has been that tools to create social content sites have had a restrictively high barrier around them. We think there’s a ton of opportunity locked up when those tools are out of the hands of the masses. What are you currently up to? If entrepreunering (my word), tell me about your startup.
Today, I’m days off of launching my baby, BricaBox.com. BricaBox is a new kind of web publishing platform, focused on the social content market. We aim to power thousands of consumer and publisher generated websites, where, like with YouTube, Flickr, Yelp, and Wikipedia, people come together with the intention of collaborating on a base of content.

Why are you doing this? You could be doing so many other things in the world, what about this particular idea strikes you?
In a word, opportunity: Opportunity in the industry as a whole; opportunity in the web publishing market; opportunity in the social web space; opportunity in the semantic web. With so many opportunities floating around, it’s hard not to be in this business, doing what we’re doing. I really couldn’t imagine doing something else right now.

All startups should be addressing a problem in the market of backup. What is that exact problem and how are you solving it?
The problem has been that tools to create social content sites have had a restrictively high barrier around them. We think there’s a ton of opportunity locked up when those tools are out of the hands of the masses.

]]> By: wiliam143 http://innonate.com/2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/#comment-634 wiliam143 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:52:40 +0000 http://innonate.com/?p=671#comment-634 What are you currently up to? If entrepreunering (my word), tell me about your startup.<br>Today, I’m days off of launching my baby, <a href="http://BricaBox.com" rel="nofollow">BricaBox.com</a>. BricaBox is a new kind of web publishing platform, focused on the social content market. We aim to power thousands of consumer and publisher generated websites, where, like with YouTube, Flickr, Yelp, and Wikipedia, people come together with the intention of collaborating on a base of content.<br><br>Why are you doing this? You could be doing so many other things in the world, what about this particular idea strikes you?<br>In a word, opportunity: Opportunity in the industry as a whole; opportunity in the web publishing market; opportunity in the social web space; opportunity in the semantic web. With so many opportunities floating around, it’s hard not to be in this business, doing what we’re doing. I really couldn’t imagine doing something else right now.<br><br>All startups should be addressing a problem in the market of <a href="http://www.thehostplanet.com/backup-software.html" rel="nofollow">backup</a>. What is that exact problem and how are you solving it?<br>The problem has been that tools to create social content sites have had a restrictively high barrier around them. We think there’s a ton of opportunity locked up when those tools are out of the hands of the masses. What are you currently up to? If entrepreunering (my word), tell me about your startup.
Today, I’m days off of launching my baby, BricaBox.com. BricaBox is a new kind of web publishing platform, focused on the social content market. We aim to power thousands of consumer and publisher generated websites, where, like with YouTube, Flickr, Yelp, and Wikipedia, people come together with the intention of collaborating on a base of content.

Why are you doing this? You could be doing so many other things in the world, what about this particular idea strikes you?
In a word, opportunity: Opportunity in the industry as a whole; opportunity in the web publishing market; opportunity in the social web space; opportunity in the semantic web. With so many opportunities floating around, it’s hard not to be in this business, doing what we’re doing. I really couldn’t imagine doing something else right now.

All startups should be addressing a problem in the market of backup. What is that exact problem and how are you solving it?
The problem has been that tools to create social content sites have had a restrictively high barrier around them. We think there’s a ton of opportunity locked up when those tools are out of the hands of the masses.

]]> By: wiliam143 http://innonate.com/2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/#comment-1652 wiliam143 Wed, 02 Dec 2009 15:52:40 +0000 http://innonate.com/?p=671#comment-1652 What are you currently up to? If entrepreunering (my word), tell me about your startup.<br>Today, I’m days off of launching my baby, <a href="http://BricaBox.com" rel="nofollow">BricaBox.com</a>. BricaBox is a new kind of web publishing platform, focused on the social content market. We aim to power thousands of consumer and publisher generated websites, where, like with YouTube, Flickr, Yelp, and Wikipedia, people come together with the intention of collaborating on a base of content.<br><br>Why are you doing this? You could be doing so many other things in the world, what about this particular idea strikes you?<br>In a word, opportunity: Opportunity in the industry as a whole; opportunity in the web publishing market; opportunity in the social web space; opportunity in the semantic web. With so many opportunities floating around, it’s hard not to be in this business, doing what we’re doing. I really couldn’t imagine doing something else right now.<br><br>All startups should be addressing a problem in the market of <a href="http://www.thehostplanet.com/backup-software.html" rel="nofollow">backup</a>. What is that exact problem and how are you solving it?<br>The problem has been that tools to create social content sites have had a restrictively high barrier around them. We think there’s a ton of opportunity locked up when those tools are out of the hands of the masses. What are you currently up to? If entrepreunering (my word), tell me about your startup.
Today, I’m days off of launching my baby, BricaBox.com. BricaBox is a new kind of web publishing platform, focused on the social content market. We aim to power thousands of consumer and publisher generated websites, where, like with YouTube, Flickr, Yelp, and Wikipedia, people come together with the intention of collaborating on a base of content.

Why are you doing this? You could be doing so many other things in the world, what about this particular idea strikes you?
In a word, opportunity: Opportunity in the industry as a whole; opportunity in the web publishing market; opportunity in the social web space; opportunity in the semantic web. With so many opportunities floating around, it’s hard not to be in this business, doing what we’re doing. I really couldn’t imagine doing something else right now.

All startups should be addressing a problem in the market of backup. What is that exact problem and how are you solving it?
The problem has been that tools to create social content sites have had a restrictively high barrier around them. We think there’s a ton of opportunity locked up when those tools are out of the hands of the masses.

]]> By: Why Startups Fail http://innonate.com/2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/#comment-584 Why Startups Fail Wed, 12 Aug 2009 21:44:06 +0000 http://innonate.com/?p=671#comment-584 [...] I wrote about in my BricaBox postmortem, we failed because we failed to gain traction. We failed to gain traction because we didn’t [...] [...] I wrote about in my BricaBox postmortem, we failed because we failed to gain traction. We failed to gain traction because we didn’t [...]

]]> By: What I learned in 2008 http://innonate.com/2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/#comment-583 What I learned in 2008 Wed, 31 Dec 2008 22:07:19 +0000 http://innonate.com/?p=671#comment-583 [...] Failing, not failure, is more than okay sometimes. [...] [...] Failing, not failure, is more than okay sometimes. [...]

]]> By: Open Sourcing BricaBox http://innonate.com/2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/#comment-581 Open Sourcing BricaBox Fri, 25 Jul 2008 13:02:49 +0000 http://innonate.com/?p=671#comment-581 [...] I announced the end of BricaBox as a business last month, I’ve heard from a number of people that open sourcing — or [...] [...] I announced the end of BricaBox as a business last month, I’ve heard from a number of people that open sourcing — or [...]

]]> By: innonate http://innonate.com/2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/#comment-633 innonate Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:56:06 +0000 http://innonate.com/?p=671#comment-633 Thanks Thomas!<br><br>Very insightful! Thanks Thomas!

Very insightful!

]]> By: innonate http://innonate.com/2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/#comment-1654 innonate Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:56:06 +0000 http://innonate.com/?p=671#comment-1654 Thanks Thomas!<br><br>Very insightful! Thanks Thomas!

Very insightful!

]]> By: Thomas http://innonate.com/2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/#comment-632 Thomas Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:45:21 +0000 http://innonate.com/?p=671#comment-632 "Companies should tackle Market Problems, not Technical Problems." Are you kidding me with this? Who doesn't know this? How about this: get some life experience before learning lessons that are widely known by people who have been there/done that? “Companies should tackle Market Problems, not Technical Problems.” Are you kidding me with this? Who doesn't know this? How about this: get some life experience before learning lessons that are widely known by people who have been there/done that?

]]> By: Thomas http://innonate.com/2008/06/19/bricabox-goodbye-world/#comment-1653 Thomas Tue, 22 Jul 2008 16:45:21 +0000 http://innonate.com/?p=671#comment-1653 "Companies should tackle Market Problems, not Technical Problems." Are you kidding me with this? Who doesn't know this? How about this: get some life experience before learning lessons that are widely known by people who have been there/done that? “Companies should tackle Market Problems, not Technical Problems.” Are you kidding me with this? Who doesn't know this? How about this: get some life experience before learning lessons that are widely known by people who have been there/done that?

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