I had a nice email exchange earlier with Guy Kawasaki. He wrote "The Art of the Start" and has a good blog about Web start-ups here.

I'm interested in the idea of community sites like VideoSift taking on the big boys as start ups - not driven by venture capitalists, but by its members. Kind of Silicon Valley meets PBS. With a lot of that hive mind stuff that DotDude mentioned in his post below. At the moment VS gets around 20K visits a day and 1.5 ~ 1.7 million page views per month.

I have to admit as a nerdie web guy I'm out of my depth in the murky waters of real business.