March 27, 2006...9:12 am

Time to start a business or not?

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The co-founder of Flickr, who happens to appear on the cover of Newsweek this week, recently said it’s not a good time to start a business. The folks at 37signals disagreed. I found the response by Jason Calacanis (of Weblogs Inc./AOL) interesting and insightful:

  • “You don’t need VC money if you’re *alone* in a market or if you’re goal is to be a tiny business–like 37Signals.”
  • “Any Web-based startup that doesn’t use open source solutions is run by an idiot–trust me, I was that idiot not long ago. I’ve since seen the performance increase and larger talent pools associated with PHP and MySQL, I’ll never go back.”
  • “Offices are best at creating three things: politics, commutes, and distractions. Again, find great folks and do regular in person meetings, then let them go home and work.”
  • “So what’s my bottom line? Real entrepreneurs see opportunities and take them–regardless of the market.”

Time to start a business or not? - The Jason Calacanis Weblog

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  • Blake
    March 28, 2006 at 2:20 pm
    “Any Web-based startup that doesn’t use open source solutions is run by an idiot–trust me, I was that idiot not long ago. I’ve since seen the performance increase and larger talent pools associated with PhP and MySQL, I’ll never go back.”

    When I first started writing for Calacanis, we used this crappy .Net blog software. Shortly after, they built a custom cms using php/mysql and that thing smokes!

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