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September 27, 2007

Web 2.0 Startup Simulator

Erick Schonfeld

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Time-waster of the day: Sim Web 2.0. It’s a little flash game that automatically generates a name for your Web 2.0 startup, like Twitcast or Youcrunch, a press clip, and a list of things to do to build the company:

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  1. **SPOILER**

    September 27th, 2007 at 2:18 pm

    How to win:

    Hire as many PR as you can, Go to BubbleCon08 as much as you can. When you run out of PR, re-hire PR. Repeat until you get about 4 million dollars. Advertise on the Super Bowl twice, and voila, you’re acquired by Google. I think I’m ready to do this for real now!

  2. Steven Roussey

    September 27th, 2007 at 2:30 pm

    Why not just start a company on your own dime, borrow the rest of what you when you need it, and then make a hefty profit?

    Oh, there is a name for that! Web 0.0.

  3. Knight News Challenge

    September 27th, 2007 at 3:18 pm

    Or you could just write up a proposal for the contest linked above - although it’s not nearly as entertaining as the game or the previous commenter’s options (but you might actually get some funding!).

    Yeah, I know. Serious is boring.

  4. Dan Goemans

    September 27th, 2007 at 3:56 pm

    I got acquired without hiring PR although, admittedly, it takes some luck. It costs $720K to build all the applications (for page rank 7), and then you have 280K to try to get 3 more page rank through CPM advertising, which seems to be somewhat less than even odds, but possible.

  5. chuck

    September 27th, 2007 at 4:29 pm

    Great idea…very realistic ….I particularly like the idea of no revenue

  6. Eric

    September 27th, 2007 at 4:30 pm

    My mouse caught fire.

  7. Aidan Henry

    September 27th, 2007 at 4:35 pm

    When we begin to see competition in *this* space, the Bubble is here…

    P.S. I’ve already seen many such services :(

    Cheers,
    Aidan
    http://www.MappingTheWeb.com

  8. Bob

    September 27th, 2007 at 6:27 pm

    how do know if I won?

  9. ea

    September 27th, 2007 at 8:35 pm

    google.com

  10. Lutherf

    September 27th, 2007 at 9:27 pm

    On my second try I got: Crotchcrunch Inc.

  11. Marco

    September 27th, 2007 at 9:58 pm

    funny… “**SPOILER**” was rite… just hire as many PR consultan as you can. no need to hire any coders or designers (just in real life LOL) and 10 seconds later after clicking around 150 times on Bubble Con 08 you’re acquired by Google…

    “Internet superpower, Google, has purchased TechCow Inc for a record breaking 9 billion in cash and stock. ‘It was the pagerank of 10 that really did it,’ a Google spokesperson said.”

    funny funny…

  12. Rollo

    September 28th, 2007 at 1:58 am

    Hey, this has already been done! At http://www.lightsphere.com/dev/web20.html - and the results are scarily realistic.

  13. NetManiac

    September 28th, 2007 at 3:22 am

    Well.. We made just something similar for Rails Rumble 2007. Unfortunately limited to 48 hr we did not implemented all planed features ;))

    You can test it on http://startup-tycoon.com/

  14. jason

    October 12th, 2007 at 9:34 am

    When you get over a 100 PR Consultants, the cash really stars to roll in. Although the field only shows two digits you do have over 100.

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