Tony from Deep Jive Interests notices that Mahalo has been doing great according to Compete’s com figures, surpassing, for example, upcoming search engines Quintura and Hakia with ease.
There’s a lesson to be learned from it, and here it is: although Jason Calacanis has dived into the most competitive startup space, search, he’s done it well, and that’s why Mahalo is doing so great. Mahalo has been brimming with activity from the very beginning, and the actual search pages have been refined. The concept didn’t seem revolutionary at the time, but it was constantly improved. Compare the current search results, to how they looked at the beginning.
On the other end of the equation, I constantly see startups with weird and original ideas that will never amount to anything, simply because the actual implementation sucked. Sometimes improving is better than innovating.
Very true. Just strayed onto VivaStreet a new small classified site which has done badly in reviews & it was, well terrible.
But this blog overlooks that Jason Calacanis & Guy Kawaski with Truemors have the name, the contacts & the finance to develop a site which typical small start-ups don’t.
For them it’s often a classic chicken & egg - they can’t develop without further funding & unless they do they won’t attract funding.