Demo's shifting focus: Businesses or consumers?
 

Instead of building fast with lots of servers, lots of customers, and hopes of revenue,

many new start-ups--mindful of the recovering economy--are taking a downright old-fashioned

approach: make money first, grow later.
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Whether that will play out at the Demo conference, which begins in earnest Tuesday in Santa

Clara, Calif.,FFXIV Gil is

debatable. But in recent months, the buzz-worthy start-ups have had a decidedly more

traditional view than Web 2.0 heavyweights like Facebook and Twitter, founded just a few

years ago with the principle that you build your audience, then you make your money.

There is, in fact, a shift every few years as start-ups change direction from the fast and

loose (though potentially immense) consumer market, to that of businesses large and small.

Whichever one is in vogue depends largely on who's doling out the money--be it investors or

the end users. For a while, neither of these groups were willing to open up their wallets,

forcing many start-ups to go back to the drawing board with their ideas.

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needs to be said here about the merits of a good business-centric Web service; the Web

offers the same kind of breakthroughs for a quick start, or cheaper overhead than

traditional, in-house solutions. That's obviously an attractive angle for any Web start-up,

especially with big contracts that bring the promise of long-term revenue or an exit to a

bigger company.

On the flip side are the consumer services--the YouTubes, Facebooks, and the Twitters of

the Web world. We know these names because they've reached the very top. Though just like

in world of pro sports, there are an endless number of competitors ready to usurp, and that

continue to do well, albeit on a slightly lower tier of popularity.

So which Final Fantasy XIV Gilside

of the fence does a company start out on? And can you change your mind once things get up

and running?