After the Stampede
Three winning strategies for internet success
Angela AndalAncionStrategy Consultant
The crash was the best thing that ever happened to the Internet. It began with a stampede of startups. At that time, the mantra of executives, entrepreneurs and venture capitalists was 'speed is everything'; a company's only concern was to get to market. Profitability seemed a low priority something inevitable but far off. Entrepreneurs took the plunge without doing their homework, forgetting oldfashioned business analysis, blinded by the allure of wild and wacky ideas. Sadly, the ideas had little depth; they did little more than create...