A little bird once told me that total amount of venture capital raised is not a particularly strong predictor of success.

Not to mention, in different economic climates for different types of startups it’s good strategy to raise vastly different amounts of money. Isn’t sustainable profit growth the surest sign of business success — startup or not?

So many people outside the startup world continue to use venture capital raised as an indicator of success–when will they get it?

The BW list is also very interesting in general – the main money is going into niche/well off peoples health or alternative energy – these seem pretty interesting areas at the moment

when we spoke to Jimmy Wales abt it, he acknowledged that they wont be any big competitor to google in the first few years and thus maintain a low profile, tweaking their product. Perhaps this is what Cuil needs to look at and keep innovating (atleast trying .. $33million afterall)

Techcrunch users’ comments are great (far better than those ‘Answers’ sites, even LinkedIn or the like’s). I’d like to hear more for the other side of the World.

For example, take a look at Asiaonline.net. They’re a bit like Cuil, though supposedly far less than $33M, Japan’s JAIC should have given them enough to dub themselves as “the world’s greatest knowledgebase project” (wow).
Anyway, after browse thru their site, their machine translation obviously poses jokes. This is not their technology’s fault (still far way from Star Trek era) but they shouldn’t try to do too much (with too little).

If you’re interested, I could help feed some info to you some time (I think only Techcrunch editors can draw interesting comments). China web 2.0 is my main interest.
PS I already email this to your email address.

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