The Definitive, Must-Have List for Dot Com Startups

A must have list for Web 2.0 and Dot Com startups...
(in no particular order)

TechCrunch

10 Rules for Web Startups

The 18 Mistakes That Kill Startups

How to start a Startup

Web startup toolkit

25 Startups that are reinventing the web

Seth Godin's Web 2.0 Traffic Watch List

Web 2.0 Name Generator

Read/Write/Web on Startups

Bandwidth blog

Alan Graham - Tales from the Web 2.0 Frontier

Micro Persuasion

Web 2.0 Central

10 Steps to a Hugely Successful Web 2.0 Company

7 Tips for Naming Your Web 2.0 Startup

How a six-month-old startup got bought by Google

Jason Calacains

Scobleizer

John Chow dot Com

The Startup News

Startup Do's and Don'ts

On Startup

Y Combinator

Red Herring

Fast Company

Wired

Business 2.0

Business 2.0 blog

Making money 2.0 style

Ever since YouTube was sold for $1.65 kajillion everyone has jumped on the bandwagon believing they can be the next internet success story. The trouble is, there are hundreds of web 2.0 startups trying to reinvent the same thing. Not to discourage, but it will take an original idea, not just a regurgitated concept.

Maybe that's why Yahoo bought MyBlogLog so fast. It was original, and the idea had proved to be viral. In just a few short months their userbase had grown significantly.

If you look at who is actually buying these sites, it's web giants like Google and Yahoo that add them to their bag of tricks to someday include in their world domination plan.

The success of a web startup depends on a few rules, some good startup advice, and possibly a web startup toolkit. Equally important is knowing what not to do, and being aware of web startup mistakes.

A great article in Business 2.0 about web company startups suggests that mistakes can be shortcuts to success.