However the success of Quora has nothing to do with web design and having good SEO specialist. Quora believes they can moderate 500,000,000 people (this is how many Facebook accounts has), as if moderating 1,000 people. They want to impose their rules (not even standards) to a number of people they will never scale. The bible has the story of the Tower of Babel http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Tower_of_babel.

Quora wants to build a city with a tower “with its top in the heavens…lest we be scattered abroad upon the face of the Earth” If they will be successful Quora will be God.

It is impossible to bring 500 milion people to talk according to standards imposed by the young moderators Mr. Cheveer hired. Right now, with claimed 0.5 million membership, Quora is a cacophony, where many able people are treated as if they are infants. The indiscriminate moderating abuses created in many users, a nauseating taste. I associate this nausea with participating in Quora and went out of it completely (which is impossible, I can only deactivate my acount)

Will Quara be worth 100 or 300 or 500 millions? The beaty is iun the eye of the beholder. May Amazon can buy them, and have the Q&A centered around books and issues. Amazon is much less intrusive and let reviewers a considerable freedom. Also the Quora module can generate business for them directly.

How about a piece on outcomes for tech/software/internet startups that hit say valuations of $25m or more at this early stage (e.g. pre 10m uniques per month; pre revenue; pre five employees; pre 1 yr of life) and how their outcomes track?

What do you think? Am I wrong ?Today 95% of the startups are in social web arena and more are still coming out only to confuse and bore netizens.

There are three links outlining everything they do, but your point well taken. I am adding an update.