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Subject: Re: UKNM: RE: UKNM Digest V1 #363
From: Stefan Magdalinski
Date: Fri, 21 Jan 2000 16:16:23 GMT

John Braithwaite wrote:
>
> Date: Tue, 18 Jan 2000 18:16:38 +0000
> From: Stefan Magdalinski <stefanatisness [dot] org>
> Subject: Re: UKNM: Kozmo
>
> Martin Phillips wrote:
> >
> > ----- Original Message -----
> > From: John Braithwaite <JohnBatGBGdirect [dot] com>
> > To: <uk-netmarketingatmail [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
>
> JB writes:
>
> Did I say 'new'?

no. You said 'The first of many'. sorry if I seem weird to you.

> All I have noticed is an even larger shift towards this end - companies
> 'buying' bits (or wholes!) of others when they see a good product. Is it
> legit? Yes. Is it healthy? Time will tell...

Ahh. This I've heard of. I believe in your land they call it 'business'.

stefan

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