Startable - Healy Jones’ & Prasad Thammineni’s Blog

How many browsers can there be? One of the things holding back the mobile web world is the ridiculous number of browsers/platforms that have to be supported to reach the mobile user. So, Google’s Chrome looks pretty slick, although I’ve far from finished my test drive (this will be my first post written from Wordpress with the Google browser…) I’m sure every browser developer will go out of their way to make sure that their browser works on 99% of all typical sites, but startup web developers don’t have hundreds of highly paid developers sitting around to ensure that their sites are easily compatible with every browser. See the screen shot from my attempt to log into Wixi.com:

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I’ve been pretty immobilized after eating what I think was a bad oyster last Friday. As I lay on the couch hoping that my chicken noodle soup would not leave my body, I thought a little bit about how it was probably pretty stupid for me to eat oysters out of season. A similar lesson may apply to raising venture capital… some times are not as good as others. It’s also important to note that just because it is a bad time to raise venture, it doesn’t necessarily mean that it’s a bad time to start a particular business. (I hope that this post won’t leave you feeling as sick as I currently do.)

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