Dogster bites back
February 3, 2004
In the wake of my admittedly flip comment about Dogster a few days back, who should respond but the top dog himself, CEO Ted Rheingold:
I can't believe how many micro-companies are finding decent enough income thanks to ubiquitous eCom engines and world-wide shipping to quit their day jobs and sell their handmade frames or custom wigs or mp3s or organic dog treat and make enough to match whatever salary they could get right now... If one is not hoping to become a over night millionaire I find the web replete with opportunity and low hanging fruit close enough for almost anyone to grab.
As I mentioned to Ted, I didn't really mean to impugn his scrappy little self-funded startup; I was just making light of the social networking bubble mentality that seems to be taking grip in the corporate/VC world.
After all, it's sites like Dogster that made the Web great in the first place: grass-roots, entrepreneurial, and genuinely optimistic. I wish them all the luck in the world.
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