It's a bad time to start a company: "t's a terrible time to start a company, especially here in the middle of it all, in the Bay Area. Why?

1. Everybody else is starting a company.
2. Your competition just got funded too.
3. Talent is scarce again.
4. You can't operate in obscurity anymore.
5. Web 2.0 isn't all that.
6. There's too much going on.

"I had this same stay-out-of-the-water-there's-sharks feeling circa 1998. Maybe my hype antibodies are just kicking in." —Caterina.net