The Benefits of Thinking Small

Interesting post. Perhaps a few other factors that affect this:

a) sector. consumer web is very different from medical devices or energy. Can't think of any drug or medical device companies that started without a IP portfolio.

a) east coast vs. west coast?

b) age / experience of the entrepreneurs, esp. if they've had any good exits in the past

I'm thinking of the local (Boston) entrepreneurs, who raised $x million from some big-name VC firm for their nth venture, after the first 2 had good exits. The risk profile is very different from that of a 20-something entrepreneur doing a consumer web idea.

This is an interesting post and I think the "sassification" model will continue. The critical question is who will make on Saas to rule them all. One Saas to tie all your Saas services together & get 'em talking to each other. Without the magic integrator, you might wind up putting the same data in different silos, over and over again.