What is Web 2.0 Success?

In this blog I will try to cut through the hype and clutter to identify the successful Web 2.0 companies, products and strategies – and hopefully parse out some lessons we can learn from them.

A regular feature of the blog, and my initial focus, will be tracking success in fundraising. This is one of the early, big hurdles a Web 2.0 company must get over, and only a small percentage of them do.

I looked around and couldn’t find a timely and detailed source venture funding data focused specifically on Web 2.0 companies, so I decided to build it myself. The plan is to be the first to publish this data and analysis on a regular basis (monthly to start). In the next couple of posts I’ll describe my data collection methodology and publish the initial Web 2.0 funding results for December '06 and January '07.