pop.com was supposed to be THE entertainment site. It was backed by Steve Spielberg, David Geffen, Imagine Entertainment (Ron Howard) and some other. Infobeat announced yesterday that pop.com is closing before it even went public!
What does that means? It means that without a good business plan and the right people at the right place, even big names does not necesseraly means success.
The race between the americans and the soviet union to get to space. Soviet beated the americans with the first satellite and first human (altought, by a very thin time margin!). Now that race can teached us that : 1) Being first does'nt necessarely bring success. 2) Being first is good PR 3) Beating the winner afterward is even better PR And that means that Intel can still be the 2000 CPU winner. Only time will tell!
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What does that means? It means that without a good business plan and the right people at the right place, even big names does not necesseraly means success.
This essay has already been covered on slashdot. See: http://slashdot.org/articles/00/01/28/116240.shtml
The race between the americans and the soviet union to get to space. Soviet beated the americans with the first satellite and first human (altought, by a very thin time margin!). Now that race can teached us that : 1) Being first does'nt necessarely bring success. 2) Being first is good PR 3) Beating the winner afterward is even better PR And that means that Intel can still be the 2000 CPU winner. Only time will tell!