Taunting the Gods of Business
Observations on high tech startups, and walking the tightrope that divides hype and reality
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... Nicholas Carroll September 21, 1999
I wrote this to crystallize my own thoughts, shortly after helping some high tech startups with their business plans. Or was I just there to watch them crash and burn? Hard to say.
The rise of dot-com companies, with their accompanying hype, has led nearly the entire nascent Internet business sector to see hype as not just a business strategy, but the only business strategy.
Thats a narrow, stock price viewpoint. High-tech ...
I wrote this to crystallize my own thoughts, shortly after helping some high tech startups with their business plans. Or was I just there to watch them crash and burn? Hard to say.
The rise of dot-com companies, with their accompanying hype, has led nearly the entire nascent Internet business sector to see hype as not just a business strategy, but the only business strategy.
Thats a narrow, stock price viewpoint. High-tech ...