Why Most DOT.COMS Will Fail

John:

(Even though it is pointless --- in this dot.com at least you have not interacted in the past -- wonder why Chowk persists with those writers who play dead? It is not original --- mean playing dead.)

Using the yardstick you so graciously supplied in your last article here is the gist. Hope you don’t mind if I changed sopme phrases:)



Why Most DOT.COMS Will Fail

by John Joss

Venture capitalists think business model is for cynics, who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. (Thanks for using my line from the précis to your last article:))

Proliferation of good dot.com ideas is drying up. VC’s odd are increasing. Today the market weeds out weaker participants much faster.

dot.com take off will stabilize and even peter out by 2005. Millions of investors will be left holding the bag.

Success demands customer mind-heart links. Consensual greed takes it royally in the posterior! Once euphoria evaporates, men with gold who make the golden rules will appear and clean out the carcass.

Dinosaurs reappear in the shape of multi-national conglomerates. Small animals are sucked up at an alarming rate. Big is better. And bigger is even better. Greedy investors buy your burgers now.

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Oh, am so bored. Has anyone read something interesting lately ;)

regards,

temporal

*yawn *

Where`s the milk?

disclaimer: This is solely my opinion, no offense meant to John Joss, or all the technology/IT/dot.com buffs out there.

WELCOME JOHN JOSS,

I look forward to your articles. Chowk has gone one up on the pak tradition of marriage between first cousins, it is pure incest, interactors, writers and of late chowk staff are all in orgy. Some have become authors based on what has been learnt on chowk, k for kafir, J for jay.

Have a look at interact no 1, temporal is accusing you of plagiarism, the usage `` price of everything and the value of none`, he has claimed it for himself. As it clearly shows, many on chowk have only chowk, their view of the world, their input from the world. Keep off the interact, be an author. Vulgarity, accusations of plagiarism for a usage as old as the mountains, we need your sympathy.

Regards

jay.

Re: temporal #1

``Venture capitalists think business model is for cynics, who know the cost of everything and the value of nothing. (Thanks for using my line from the précis to your last article:))``

Actually it`s Oscar Wilde, Lady Windermere`s Fan (1892), Act 3

Cecil Graham: What is a cynic?

Lord Darlington: A man who knows the price of everything and the value of nothing.

Re: JJ

At last some sense in the VC madness. agree with some ideas. My own take on the issue is that capitalists are speculators rather than contributors to the overall wealth of a socio-system. After the TRex`s go the real workers come. Unfortunately, big money sets the tenor of competition i.e., the ethics, the values--the rules of the game. Real entreprenuers get an unfair arena to play in. And this dictates their ability to succeed.

Secondly, it is way easier to be bought by a larger company rather than to keep chipping in as a small company.

I find your conclusion optimistic... it is still early days for the Internet, but surely the VCs know that too?

OSCAR WILDE AND OMAR WASIM TEHSIN,

The british foreign office has recently declassified a lot of material relating to the indo anglian writers of the ninteenth century. From the early days , in their eagerness to create a colonial empire, the british encouraged learning of english by the natives. The sheer determination and the hope of securing govt jobs propelled many to be outstanding in english.

One such person from northern india was a muslim, Omar Wasim Tehsin, who wrote many good works in english. Early in this century he migrated to england where he adopted the psuedonym of Oscar Wlde to sound more christian and british. It is alleged that this person has since then returned to a region now called pakistan. More than a century old, the person is alleged to be still active in the literary field, mainly in the internet, to keep his anonymity.

Still some people know his psuedonym.

Mukallaf #4:

The whole tone of post #1 was tongue in cheek. Please read it again and tell me if it was otherwise.

To provide proper perspective, here is the relevant quote from my interact to John’s previous article:” We have trillions of morsels of knowledge and little wisdom. We learn or can access the price of everything. But we tend to overlook their value.”

In my gentle dig at John perhaps I may have crossed over into sarcasm.

However, I would not accuse him of plagiarism. That is for literary sleuths or imbeciles to do. And frankly this piece by no stretch would qualify as a literary gem.

I would not accuse him of plagiarism, also, because over a period of time so many observations, comments and quotes are assimilated unconsciously into our collective sub-conscious.

Thanks for the post and the quote.

regards,

temporal

jay Thackeray #3 and 6:

Remind yourself to take the prescription drugs orally. It is obviously not working anally. And regularly, or they may come and take you away for good.

Read post #1, 4 and & 7 carefully. Very carefully. If there is a word that you don’t understand check a dictionary or ask. There is no shame, ever, in learning.

most humbly,

temporal

PS: Other gentle folks here. Please extend me a generous dose of understanding when I deal with this genius.

Absolutely agree with your opinion JJ. Dot.coms are high-tech quackery of the new millenium.

Last 10+ years of a stock market bull run has resulted in an illusion that anybody can make money by ``investing``.

The Internet has captured the general public`s imagination and hence a new potential moneymaking machine has been generated by IPO`ing Dot.coms. Problem is thus far, virtual companies have been generating virtual cash. Investors/VC however have been using real cash to finance these virtual companies. Is it just me or do I see a big black hole in between the Real investors money and the virtual cash flow??

History has shown time and time that at the dawn of a new technological breakthrough -eg invention of the transistor, electricity, many are enticed to invest in a company based on new technology promising obscene wealth in the future. Most companies fail and it`s the small investor who gets burned.

Too bad Greed has such a short memory....

Regards,

Fozia

Dear JJ.

I think there is something wrong/evil with your articles.

People are either extremely hostile to them or they are completely indifferent. There are no `middle of the road` interactors here.

My assesment for hostility is that you are ``Ghar ka Bhaidi`` which makes other people of the ``Ghar`` think that ``Ghar ka bhaidi lanka dha rha hay``.

I dont understand the reason for the indiffernce though. Probably, you write on something that is above most of us (BTW I understood everything you wrote).

May be you should choose a classy title, something like:

``Stop killing IT businesses``
``IT Businesses stop this suicide``

or the best of all

``Why all Indian dot coms will fail``

``The reasons of dot com failures and Kashmir``

``Blasphemy Law as applied to IT failures``

and trust me, you dont neeed to prove your case or heck you dont even need a case.

With regard to dotcoms...

Is it necessary that dotcoms must push themselves to facilitators of e-commerce?

Continuing in the same vein, why are ISPs in a better position in a dotcom race?

FOr a site like tehelka.com ( i hope the spelling is right}, the site that brought out Manoj Prabhakar`s recording, how can they become a profit making company? Only through ad revenues?

Doesn`t look feasible..If not then why and If yes then How?

John Joss...?

Temoporal #re 8

Thoda zyada nahin ho gaya? ..the way u recommend drugs to be taken...!

It was in your subconscious mind it`s ok...you have read Oscar Wilde, you have imbibed it. As simple as that!

Jay #re 6

It is nice to take a dig at others..gets the best out of both sides, but then can`t we just keep it a bit less acrimonious.

Actually temporal normally has a nice temper.

Urstruly #10:

Very funny post.

Satyavadi

Urstruly,

Is that smoke coming out of your ears?

pullu #11:

[Thoda zyada nahin ho gaya? ..the way u recommend drugs to be taken...!]

ThoRRa nahiN buhat ziada ho gaya hay!

The consistent way this guy (jay Thackeray) simultaneously speaks out of all his orifices, once in a while brings out the worst in me.

HumaiN ummeed hay aap aur doosray bhallay log humaiN maaf kar daiNgay!

rgds,

t

pullu,

Sometimes we can`t help say mean things to Jay. He`s always saying mean things to others and spreading hateful propaganda.

T-bhai,

He deserved what you said to him.

RE: Scout

Yes! and its not just ears. For further info on anatomy related to smoke, contact Temporal.

RE: Satyavadi
Thank you