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Likely Success of Internet-Related Business Models?
guess-for-success asks: "In Lester Thurow's latest book, published by HarperBusiness Books (Fall 2003), Fortune Favors the Bold: What We Must Do to Build a New and Lasting Global Prosperity, there is a chapter which discusses the beginning of new industries. During this time, several business models are introduced and only a few will survive. Looking at the PC industry, Commodore was the industry leader in the 1980's, but ultimately failed and went bankrupt in 1994. Successful business models such as Dell were not introduced until years after the industry began.
I now ask the Slashdot community: which internet business models they believe are going to succeed? Which companies will rise to the top? Will they be infrastructure related companies such as Cisco and even FedEx, or will they be true dot.com's such as eBay or Amazon?"
"You can find out more about Lester Thurow here. He is a professor of economics and management at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology and has been the Dean of the Sloan School of Business at MIT. He has three New York Times best selling books to his credit and consults widely around the globe."
Fraud is the only internet business model.
How much do you want to bet that Howard Deans "tens of thousands of small contributions" is funnelled money?
The *only* innovation in the Internet is the lack of oversight. E-Bay is basically just what other countries call the black market: not everybody on e-bay is fencing stolen goods but everybody fencing stolen goods is on E-Bay. Of *course* they make lots of money: at best it's an unregulated market.
We are basically developing a "leisure privileged class" like Britain used to have. The American Revolution is over.