How to get ahead in the postbubble world: Build a company cheap. Flip It fast. Repeat.

Om Malik had an excellent article in the business2.0 magazine Titled "The New Road to Riches" Om gives some great examples of entrepreneurs who have started up, kept cost base low, and then got bought out by a bigger fish - all within a relatively short period of time. The example he focussed on was Oddpost - a 6 person company, which was acquired by Yahoo. See this Wired article for more insights on Oddpost Encouraging story !!