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FW: Market Perspective

—— Forwarded Message From: “Adam L. Beberg” Date: Wed, 14 Mar 2001 16:15:58 -0800 (PST) To: fork [at] xent [dot] com Subject: Market Perspective Reality is a harsh mistress, welcome back....

Re: RE: card change

In typical Idealab! fashion, they’re patenting this bogus “method” (prior art with Alternic?). Why didn’t they just submit an application to ICANN to become a registrar for a Top Level Domain? Isn’t that easier (and cheaper) than trying...

Ironic?

Didn’t I predict this article in my Globe and Mail dispatch? 🙂 -Ian. —- http://dailynews.yahoo.com/htx/nm/20010311/wr/tech_lifestyle_dc_1.html Sunday March 11 8:01 AM ET Internet Stock Flop Zaps Dot-Com Lifestyle By Michael Kahn SAN FRANCISCO (Reuters)...

Cisco To Cut up to 5,000 Jobs

I’m SO glad I left. If their stock continues to tank they won’t have to lay off anybody. But christ, when I joined Cisco in September 1998 Cisco had 18,000 employees. But now 44,000? That’s crazy. Anyway, John Chambers once said that, as a result of...

Re: IPO.com Pricing Range Alert – LOUDCLOUD, INC.

My neighbour in LA is still dating Marc. I think your opinion is a popular one. He’s been marketed, at times, as a wunderkind and a technological visionary. I think that, if anything, Netscape’s failure to execute on anything resembling a business strategy...

Idealab! & Airwave

I never figured out what Idealab!’s investment in eVoice was, but it can’t be too significant. Idealab! never even mentions them. Anyway, the Airwave guys pitched me their plan when they were first starting last summer. I wasn’t under anybody’s...