I just found this great quote from Markus, the guy who made a million bucks off adsense in 3 months, on this GenuineVC blog post. Here it is:

There is a massive paradigm shift going on right now. The cost of developing and growing a site to massive sizes is growing to 0. The big talk about web 2.0 is the fact that hardware costs, bandwidth costs and software costs have dramatically fallen. What people haven't really realized yet is that in "web 3.0" companies like mine and future companies will need a fraction of the employees they currently do and that is going to create some amazing sites/business models and eliminate the need for most VC/funding.

This is sort of related to what I was talking about when I said the corporation is coming to an end, and will be replaced by the network. Today, guys like Markus are in a position where they can be a serious force in the online dating market. Markus is years ahead of the curve, but once the rest of the world catches up to where he is today, the game will be about networks of people like Markus who collaborate towards a single cause. It's going to require an open source structure, one without a fixed leader, and probably one with more of revenue sharing type of profit structure. To use the military analogies that are so prevalent in business, it's going to be a lot more like a terrorist network than a command and control regime.

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