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Dumb Internet Ideas
By Julie | July 25, 2008
…when any jerk could get venture capital for a web start-up, even without the faintest clue how the service would ever make money?
It’s excellent to see that such big dreams can still be made reality. I genuinely do not comprehend how Cha Cha will ever monetize the mobile search thing they’re doing. They already eliminated the guided search they were doing, which would have at least allowed for display advertising on the interface screens. Within an SMS, they have 160 characters for an answer to any question. Advertising isn’t going to happen, unless they spam people separately, and that’s already considered semi-illegal in most cases.
As near as I can figure, the new business plan is to be acquired by the Yellow Pages, or Google411.
I wonder what dumb idea I can have to get a $10M VC round. I can be inspired by the movie The Producers (the 1968 original, with Zero Mostel, if you please). Only I’ll try to avoid singing, dancing, or jail, and you’ll thank me for avoiding the first two.
Topics: business management, found objects, marketing, nostalgia, search results, social media, spam, the road to hell, zrong |
