Lessons from a Failed Web 2.0 Start-Up

Dharmesh Shah of OnStartUps.com has some interesting thoughts on Web 2.0 start-up stumbles and fumbles, on the news that Kiko is on the blocks, on eBay (bidding starts at $49K. No takers yet). He writes:

“For those that don’t know who/what Kiko was, it was one of the prototypical Web 2.0 companies (a free online calendar with AJAX, written in Ruby On Rails and funded by Y Combinator). It doesn’t get much more Web 2.0 than that.”

Read his five reflections on where Kiko may have gone wrong. (Some interesting forum discussion follows.)