How to Become a Web 2.0 company

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With so many new web companies starting up today it is often times hard become a true Web 2.0 company and riase above all of the noise. Being a Web 2.0 company does not just mean you were created in 2004 or 2005 and have a fancy AJAX front end it is much more than that. To truly be a Web 2.0 company you have to make sure that you follow the steps below.

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Instructions

Difficulty: Moderate

Things You’ll Need:

Open Source Anything
Linux servers
AJAX for Dummies Book
South of Market Address (San Francisco, CA)
Venture Capital

Step1

Make sure that you start the company in a garage or a spare bedroom is someone's house with just 2-3 people. Make sure all of the people are tech people with absolutely no business experience. Also, make sure that at least one of those peoeple is age 23 or less.

Step2

Analyze your company name in detail. Is it missing some vowels, like Flickr? Does it have "ster" on the end of it? Are there two "oo's" together anywhere in the name? Make sure you have one of these things going for you and you will be fine.

Step3

Subscribe to RSS feeds from the following sites, www.mashable.com, www.techcrunch.com or GigaOm.

Step4

Sign up to present at a DEMO conference (www.demo.org). Demo is a venue for new companies that occurs two times a year. Demo is a great place to launch a new venture. You will get a 5-7 minutes to present to press, investors and industry experts.

Step5

Make sure that you use open source technology to build your site. When in doubt use Ruby on Rails?

Step6

Make sure the pictures that users submit to your website are always taken at weird angles. Also make sure most of the people are scantily clad girls or guys with no shirts showing off their 6 packs.

Step7

Do you have T-Shirts with your logo on them that you sell on the homepage of your site?

Step8

Get your picture taken on the Demand Media Web 2.0 couch? All Web 2.0 companies get their picture taken "on the couch".

Step9

Finally, have you proven your business model and are you making any money? To truly be a Web 2.0 company your answer to this needs to be NO.

Comments

Jeebus151 said

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on 5/10/2007 Dear Douchy McDoucheAlot,

You're a douche. This could have been an insightful look as to how a few simple tools, properly arranged, appeal to a massive amount of people, and gets sold for more money than you will ever make humping your mailbox for nickles. But no...
you're a douche.

Good day Sir!

Alvin said

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on 11/23/2006 I'm sure it's important, but I don't understand what "Get your picture taken on the Demand Media Web 2.0 couch" means. Please elaborate. Thank you.

stevenky said

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on 9/29/2006 ...and a Dragon. Every 2.0 company needs a dragon

Moop said

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on 9/29/2006 Dood, you forgot to mention toys. Everybody knows 2.0 companies that are goin' places have serious stashes of skillfully pilfered toys -- like from Yahoo! and Google kingdoms... Werd.