Why It Would Be Good If Color Failed

I have great respect and admiration for all entrepreneurs out there including the Color founders. I have seen the videos and read the interviews. In theory, Color sounds cool, its founders seem to be knowing what they are talking about and those investors that sunk 50 million into the startup can’t be crazy either.

Still, I hope that one of these days I wake up and Color has just disappeared.

I thought about that this last Saturday while I was out having dinner. Several people I know also had dinner at the restaurant where I was and I’m sure several of them took a few photos. I also know that nobody used Color.

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Why It Would Be Good If Color Failed

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Ballmer: Google Has "Taken A Failed Approach So Far" To Tablets (MSFT, GOOG)

Steve Ballmer decided to take a shot at Google's weak Android tablets sales in a talk with Microsoft employees in China.

The Wall Street Journal reports Ballmer told employees, Google "has taken a failed approach so far" with tablets. (He admitted Apple's iPad has been very successful.)

True, Android isn't doing well in tablets right now, but it's just the first inning. It started slowly in phones, too.

At least Google is at bat. Microsoft is still sitting on the bench. (Sorry for the baseball metaphor!)

Ballmer says his company is working a "unique contribution" to the tablet market and will have "more news about that in the not-too-distant future."

We'll be curious to see what it is, and how it differs from Google's approach. Seems like Google's approach to tablets is a lot like Microsoft's approach to PCs.

Ballmer has been promising a Microsoft tablet to compete with Apple and Google since July of last year. (At the time he said, "It has job one urgency around here, nobody's sleeping at this point."

We probably won't see anything from Microsoft on tablets until Windows 8 comes out next year.

We might get a preview of Windows 8 next week.

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Fred Wilson: Hot Potato And Drop.io Were Both Failed Companies

Interesting comments by Fred Wilson about two New York startups that were recently acquired by Facebook:

"You know, companies are failing. A couple of high-flying entrepreneurs came crashing to the ground recently. Justin Shaffer of Hot Potato and Sam Lessin of Drop.io—both of those companies essentially failed. Both of them ended up 'selling' their businesses to Facebook, but those were really just—Facebook wanted to hire those people, and they wrapped it up in a 'sale.' But those companies were unsuccessful. They failed. So there is failure out there—like, right in front of us. We can see it."

(Hot Potato's former lead web engineer Matt Langer responded, "Maybe Fred and I have different definitions of 'failure.' Justin and Sam both built companies that Facebook considered valuable properties ... when the single most important company on the Web considers it worth their while to acquire the product you're building and the people you're working alongside the absolute last word that comes to mind is 'failure'.")

Kudos to Fred for calling it like he sees it--publicly.  But we imagine he'll trigger a bit of a backlash here.

Sam and Justin (and Fred) were all members of the Silicon Alley 100 this year.

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