Re: UKNM: Kozmo

[Stefan Magdalinski]

Martin Phillips wrote:

 > 

 > ----- Original Message -----

 >

From: John Braithwaite <JohnBGBGdirect [dot] com>

 >

To: <uk-netmarketingmail [dot] chinwag [dot] com>

 > Sent: 18 January 2000 10:21

 > Subject: UKNM: Kozmo

 > 

 >  > The moral of the story is: If you see a potential threat, buy it!

 >  >

 >  > This is the first of many - I see companies in the future binning the R&D

 >  > departments and just 'buying' their next products as companies and then

 >  > integrating them. If it works for CISCO and others....

 > 

 > The whole pc industry started that way. Microsoft didn't write

 > PC-DOS, they bought it in. And if this is the future, it's also the past - a

 > return to the days when independent inventors came up with ideas and sold them to

 > companies.


I've read business plans for californian startups that  have acquisition

by a threatened named monopolist (/market leader) as the explicit exit

strategy. it's legit. and not new at all


 > plus ca change...

 > 

 > Martin Phillips

 > MBI Danbury Mint


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