VentureWoods – losing it’s significance?
For those who don’t know about VentureWoods, well its a multi-author blog started by Alok Mittal and is an attempt to bring all the VCs/startups related discussion under a common roof.
I must admit that I used to be a regular reader of VentureWoods, but not anymore.
Quite lately,VentureWoods has become a place for the following:
- Driving traffic to one’s blog: I personally don’t have an issue with this, but read the next point.
- Ask questions without putting any effort in seeking the answers:
Look at these posts: Online classifieds, Zoho, and several others
What surprises me about such posts are that authors have not spent a single amount of time doing a research on the topic. Forget about author’s insights, what really pathetic is the kind of questions that are being raised (“do you think this idea is viable?” ). And these are not exceptional posts, these are a norm these days @ VentureWoods.
Looks like, most of the authors want a “quick fix”, i.e. a quick solution to their question and also earn free traffic.
Had VentureWoods been an announcement site (of events/startup, VC news) or a blog with collection of “good stuff”, I don’t have a problem. But I do have a problem with what it was meant to be and what it is now. Leaving aside a few authors (like Alok/Vijay), I really don’t see any value in any of the posts.
What do you think? Do you still treat VW, as “something serious” or just another personal musings of a few individuals?
tags: venturewoods
About the author - Ashish Sinha is a Startup Mentor/Product Strategy Coach, and the founder/chief editor of pluGGd.in.
He has launched/managed couple of products (consumer as well as enterprise) in US and India, and now consults with startups/small businesses on their product/media strategy. He can be reached at: ashish (at) pluGGd.in [+91 98452 06443]
venture woods looks infested.
That blog is just confabulation blog not serious one. Many people read that blog not because of content because of their background. We need RICH QUALITY Content that impact each and every one not just like summary in very book.
The ONLY serious blogs for Indian startup,vc, tech and biz is Pluggd.in and WATBlog which are growing @ an explosive pace.
VW is plain useless these days…Most of the posts are meant from earning free links and traffic..
And am not too sure why mahesh thinks watblog is great..they just mash up content from agencyfaqs..anyways, atleast they take point in doing what they are doing…
I just hope VW does some decent stuff
I remember seeing a post about routeguru and the author didn’t even care to do a basic google search on routeguru. I think Venturewoods is quite noisy these days..its time they clean up
Ashish and others, would be very keen to get your feedback on what kind of things you think we should do to increase the quality of contribution on venturewoods. There could be screening of contributors, but one of the things I believe is that good insights can come from anywhere. May be rating of users? Any comments are welcome. Since you might not be visiting venturewoods, I wanted to draw your attention to the post I made recently to ask for suggestions http://www.venturewoods.org/index.php/2007/09/27/venturewoods-ahead/ or you can write me on alokmittal at gmail dot com (no, I didnt attach the link to get cheap traffic
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