Tech Startup 2.0

Business Week 1/6/05 Tech Startup 2.0, Rising from the post-bubble slump are new ventures that are forging a different, more productive path than their predecessors
http://www.businessweek.com/technology/content/jan2005/tc2005016_0316.htm
IT産業構造変化ゆえのスタートアップ創造における変化

"Startup management is looking more like American football than the free-for-all soccer of old."
For one, startup teams don't just consist of two kids in a dorm room anymore. Many of today's entrepreneurs are battle-tested veterans of several ventures. And they're quickly joined by executives who have also done it before.

New outfits are also getting to market with real products much more frugally -- and amazingly, even faster -- than bubble-era "fast companies" did.

Others are plugging into the boom-built grid of Web-based technology and services that has only now matured to mission-critical standards. What's more, open-source software costs almost nothing, and it can run on dirt-cheap PCs and servers. "You can bootstrap a company much more easily," for as little as one-tenth of what hardware, software, and network bandwidth cost five years ago, says Kim Polese, CEO of open-source software services startup SpikeSource.
Not the least, startups are now going global from day one -- something that used to take many years.

The 21st century blueprint for high-tech company-building reflects the new realities of information technology. Tech's rise from the slump that began in 2001 looks remarkably similar to the transitions of other great technological waves, from the railroad to the automobile. After the period of frenzy ends in an economic downturn, the real, decades-long buildout begins.