Re: UKNM: Dot Com Fever

[Charles Linn]

> > to the point of saying that they didn't think that the online bubble was

> going to

> > burst!  Is it?

>

> There's so much talk about the bubble bursting.  I think valuations will

> start to level off and the companies with unsound business models will

> suffer, badly.  However, this is the point at which the strong business

> models and the (dare I say it) profitable models will come to the front.

> Personally I welcome this as we can all stop talking about hype and start

> talking about real, sustainable businesses - don't know about anyone

else's

> thoughts on this?


Thinking about all the capital out there invested in dodgey ideas by people

who were not well advised; I wonder what kind of bad name start-ups are

going to get once bad ideas have to admit that they will make no money and

so are valueless?


In the current climate of IPO jitters, I would have thought that it would be

very difficult to sell an idea which did not show it could, in theory, make

profit within a couple of years - easy to talk about, much harder to do.


 Trouble is those great big marketing budgets isn't it!  How many sites

would be making money if they were able stop their marketing spend for a

month?  Is the 'we don't make any money because we plough it all back into

the business and so make a loss on paper, but this will soon change' line

true?


I wonder


Chas



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