RE: [uk-netmarketing] RE: fall of the dotcoms?

[Alex Chapman]

Not sure whether it is the people who were involved with them that return 

getting stronger - clearly one or two will but will the pioneers in one 

boom be the ones that lead the way to making things stronger and better in 

the next? Aren't they likely to be more cautious and more cynical?


Not that there is anything wrong with that but fortune does favour the 

brave. The brave ones are likely to be those that worked for the pioneers 

i.e the development teams etc. They are the ones that really stand to 

benefit - no losses, no burnt fingers, masses of experience and a whole pot 

of ideas to dip into.


And that brings me to my point good ideas will always return - the problem 

is the person that uses them may not be the one that created the concept or 

first brought it to the market but the person that buys them from the 

liquidator or nicks them because they are not properly protected.


The successful infrastructure and intellectual property rights i.e 

proprietary engines, third party licences etc will always have value. 

Therefore the companies that look after these things now will not only have 

something to stop them going to the wall but also something that might help 

their resurrection. N'est pas.


For example the dotcom failures - there is value in their databases - 

however they might not be able to realise this value by selling it if they 

haven't got the proper data protection act consents.


Also the back end software - has value - cost a lot to develop - but if the 

rights aren't actually owned by the company it ain't worth a fig.


Just a thought


Alex Chapman

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From:	Leslie Bunder [SMTP:

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Sent:	07 February 2001 10:02

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Subject:	[uk-netmarketing] RE: fall of the dotcoms?


Ashley


you make a very good point about Imagine and out of the ashes of Imagine

came many good things as well...


Psgnosis, Denton Designs and more...


so 'tis the same that is likely to happen with those businesses that are no

longer around. those people who were involved in them will return working

with new businesses and getting stronger and stronger...


And hey, isn't that like any other business... business boom, business 

crash

and everything else in-between happens!


Leslie

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