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Likely Success of Internet-Related Business Models?

Posted by Cliff on from the as-long-as-you-don't-stake-your-rep-on-it dept.

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."

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  1. Let me get this straight... by Anonymous Coward · · Score: 4, Funny

    This is essentially Frodo meets Oregon Trail, right? Instead of your son getting dyssentry, Frodo gets knifed in the shoulder. Instead of breaking a wagon axle, you get consumed by Barrow-wights. Instead of meeting friendly travellers, you meet ring-wraiths.

  2. Atari Age has been overrun by Nazgul! by Proud+Geek · · Score: 4, Funny

    Who have installed "mysql errors" instead of our
    dimunutive hero, the hobbit Frodo. Not even the mighty
    "Slashdot Effect" could stop them! Sauron will
    recover the one ring and we are all doomed!

    --

    Even Slashdot wants to hide some things

  3. A faithful rendition of the book. by MagnaMark · · Score: 5, Funny

    Wow, nothing captures the grandeur and rich detail of a 1000+ page epic like 128 colors, 160x200 resolution rendered by a graphics chip running at 1.19 MHz. The screenshots transport me back to 1986 when I first read the book.

    1. Re:A faithful rendition of the book. by wsloand · · Score: 5, Funny

      But, the book itself was monochrome, and its primary interface was text-- not even color text at that.

      Doesn't that mean that it has to be an improvement?

  4. Re:trusted computing - oh please by Tumbleweed · · Score: 5, Funny

    The Internet-Enabled Remote Bitchslap(patent pending) will be the biggest thing EVAR!

    Oh yeah, and an addition to CallerID called CallerIQ.

  5. You're asking Slashdot this? by Temporal · · Score: 4, Funny
    I think the underpants gnome business model is the best!
    1. Collect underpants.
    2. ???
    3. Profit!