Likely Success of Internet-Related Business Models?

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Likely Success of Internet-Related Business Models?

Posted by Cliff on Friday January 2, 2004 @08:13AM 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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A lesson on HOW to stay COMPETETIVE by MonTempIar · 2004-01-02 08:18 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Over the last 20 years I have been running a small bespoke software company, currently the larger players suck as IBM and Russian companys are really putting the squeeze on us.

We really had to tighten our belts, I am not proud of this but I had to let a couple of my guys go and I replaced them with some Indians with H1-B visas. It is not very patriotic I know but they are hardworking and pleasant.

Just last week I asked them if there was much talent in India, they were very confident that Indian programmers were very compitent. I told them to go over there find some offices get some interviews going and I would meet them in a month. You see the only way I can compete with the big players and the Europeans is to relocate my business and my family to India.

Oh well the weather is nice, I will post updates in my journal, friend me if you are interested.
1. Re:A lesson on HOW to stay COMPETETIVE by soft_guy · 2004-01-02 08:26 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
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2. Re:A lesson on HOW to stay COMPETETIVE by Serveert · 2004-01-02 08:33 · Score: 0, Offtopic
  
  China is cheaper, India is getting too expensive.
  
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Commodore was the leader ? by Slowtreme · 2004-01-02 08:23 · Score: 0, Offtopic

Just a comment about the post not the story, but what part of the 1980's was Commodore leading anything? Maybe outside the US? I know the Amiga was big in the EU, but the C64 and like have always seemed to be 1/2 computer 1/2 game console.
Did they really sell that many units?

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Re:What's "bespoke"? by BluedemonX · 2004-01-02 08:27 · Score: 0, Offtopic

"Bespoke" in couture refers to an item of clothing custom made to you - hence a "bespoke" suit, etc.

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Re:What's "bespoke"? by Jo+Owen · 2004-01-02 08:40 · Score: 0, Offtopic

They write software on demand for specific purposes and people,