This is an idea I had back in 1999. I don’t post it here because I think it’s something NEW that you could use today. I post it here for posterity to show you what I was thinking about in 1999.
Note: You will need to download the word doc at the bottom of this post to see it.
Myself & my buddy put the plan together and formed a 6 man team to bring it to market. We presented it to the UK VC’s in 2000 – just after the internet 1.0 bubble burst.
Apart from the fact that the bubble burst, we were pitching in the UK where the VC’s just didn’t “get it”. I think if we were pitching in Silicon Valley it might have been a different story.
If you carefully go through this plan I hope you’ll agree that it was the right time to be thinking about something like this. I think Mahalo validates that the idea was an interesting one.
One large mistake in this plan is that it talks about using flash to build it. I actually started building the core technology and quickly realised that HTML would be a better technology to use – but I never got round to updating the business plan to reflect the fact.
All Channels – Human Moderated Search Engine – Idea from 1999
