UKNM: anyone got capital?

[David Bentley]

I would be interested to hear people's views on why independently funded

e-commerce (or content) sites are quite few and far between?


It seems that lastminute.com and QXL are doing pretty well and have pretty

high exposure, but I would have thought there would be a boom in start-ups

with the pretty awesome increase in the UK online community over the past

year.  Instead I see the traditional retailers and businesses (or the US

internet retailers) making the tentative steps and allowing them to start

to cement their position in this new marketplace in the consumers' mind.


Is it the same old story of the financial community not investing in UK

start-ups?  Or is it that the size of the UK market still isn't big or

mature enough to justify and find reasonable return for start-up

businesses?  New economy or just a new media?  


On a postcard please.


David

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