| Hi, Maybe this is just me, but all I hear about these days are start-up stories like someone has received $2 million in funding to develop a new wrapper for Twitter, a geo-tagging application or some app to review how good/bad cup-cakes are at their local bakery type service....in short a lot of social apps. I don't see many of these companies with solid revenue streams (which is the point, no?), they seem more focused on features & getting users than on generating cash income. Just take a look on the homepage of techcrunch for an example of what I mean, its all android, iphone, twitter, facebook, google vs oracle articles and the occasional mention of a corporate boehmite - nothing about startup / young b2b companies. What happened to all of the business 2 business / non-retail applications? Maybe these are not as sexy or as exciting to talk about, but they do tend to be more tangible, generate long term lasting revenue & jobs, personally I also tend to find the stories behind b2b development companies far more interesting. |
Hopefully Cloudkick counts :)
But generally, the b2b space has much less splash and attention, partly because you generally need far fewer paying customers to be profitable compared to a consumer based business. Most consumer based businesses need to get millions of uniques to be considered successful, while a b2b application with 1000 paying customers can easily be pulling in more money, but has far less notoriety.