• By Owen Thomas
    Sep 17, 2007 3:08 PM 413
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    Six Apart exec on LiveJournal founder: "Waaaaay down the path to madness"
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    Meanwhile, in the real world of business

    The Web 2.0 startups featured at TechCrunch40 are adorable, really. But they can't compete with the draw of a real business with real, paying customers, Six Apart executive Michael Sippey points out: "Around the corner from tc40 there are 7000 people at salesforce.com's conference." Salesforce.com, unlike most of the startups on display at TechCrunch40, dares to charge for its Web-based software — a recipe for disaster, according to TechCrunch40 organizer Michael Arrington. Right. If you consider half a billion dollars in annual revenues to be a disaster, that is.


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