After the Stampede: Three Winning Strategies For Internet Success

Angela Andal-Ancion

The author concludes that the e.business crash was inevitable and was the best thing to happen to the internet.

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...

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