On the survival of startups

Anand (our co-founder) just cranked out a cool post for GigaOm that attempts to defy the doom and gloom pervading the tech blogosphere. Sun cuts 6000. Yahoo! cuts 10%. Mahalo spruced some ungodly percentage of folks and Seesmic hits 33% of their workforce. 

Needless to say, I’m happy to see Kosmix continue down a path of prudent and cautious growth – I mean, we’re treating things as business as usual, working hard, playing ping pong and being ultra-lovable web geeks. What has changed is that since no one is looking at their stock portfolios on Google Finance anymore, productivity has probably taken a slight uptick – all in all, not a bad state of affairs. 

Read the post if you’ve got five minutes. I didn’t know some of the stuff around VC firms carrying zombies around on their portfolios and that was pretty educational. 

Also, stay tuned and keep an eye on Kosmix.com. We think you’ll like what we have to show over the next few weeks.